Cloud computing and EDA: Is cloud technology ready for verification … (and is verification ready for cloud)?

Growth Of Verification Complexity ASIC/SOC design size and complexity is growing at unprecedented rates, and this is driving more than exponential growth in the verification effort for these designs. This in turn is driving increasing investment in the HW infrastructure needed to support verification - to the point of becoming unsustainable. Even when companies can afford the cost of such expansion, many have reached other limitations - data center space, cooling, power, etc.