Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* EDA: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800

Intel Xeon

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Ideal for high performance computing (HPC) applications that rely on high memory capacity thanks to up to 512GB per socket with 16 slots utilizing 32GB memory modules delivering up to 102 Gb/s memory bandwidth on a 4-socket server.

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    Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

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Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

Precision-crafting large, complex designs can be costly and laborious. Analyzing analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits ensures higher design quality. The next generation Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family delivers the needed performance levels to ensure circuits are in spec to help design companies improve the manufacturability and yield of integrated circuits for quicker time-to-market.

Benchmark description for Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

Provides fast, accurate SPICE-level simulation for tough analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits ensuring higher design quality. The workload runs through simulations to validate analysis assumptions measured as a throughput metric.

Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

As of April 1, 2011

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Cadence Virtuoso Spectre* Circuit Simulator tool

Comparison based on 4-socket generational platforms. Source: Testing completed on-site by Intel labs and reviewed/approved by Cadence. The workload measures high-performance, high-capacity SPICE-level analog and RF simulation analysis throughput.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details

Intel® 7500 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.4GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 256GB (64x 4GB DDR3-1066 registered ECC), 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 based platform details

Intel® 7500 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.4GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 256GB (64x 4GB DDR3-1066 registered ECC), 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

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3. 64-bit Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® EM64T require a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, OS, device drivers, and applications enabled for Intel EM64T. Processor will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel EM64T-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Intel EM64T-enabled OS, BIOS, device drivers, and applications may not be available. Check with your vendor for more information.


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