Packages
Design Team IT Health Check
Rapid baseline assessment of the IT supporting your engineers. A fixed-fee, fixed-duration assessment that produces a clear picture of your engineering IT environment in ten days with no disruption to your design schedule.
Distributed endpoint, identity, backup, vulnerability, access, asset, and incident readiness controls can make IT risks difficult to see. A baseline makes these risks visible and prioritised.
EDA Infrastructure Assessment & Optimisation
License architecture, tool deployment, and CAD platform review. This engagement establishes what your tools are really doing, where contention occurs, and what can be recovered.
EDA licensing and CAD environments can create productivity loss that is difficult to see from infrastructure uptime alone. Utilisation, denials, contention, deployment consistency, and architecture need to be viewed together.
HPC Cluster & Job Scheduler Optimisation
Queue design, resource allocation, and throughput engineering. This engagement targets how much engineering work your existing cluster can actually deliver.
A cluster can have unused or fragmented capacity while engineers experience long queue waits. Scheduler policy, resource allocation, and workload behaviour all affect engineering throughput.
Storage Architecture Review & Design
NFS, parallel file systems, tiering, and performance engineering. Design data storage is a common hidden bottleneck in semiconductor environments.
EDA storage is latency and metadata sensitive. Generic benchmarks can look healthy while real engineering workloads struggle.
Enterprise Linux Platform Engineering
Standardisation, configuration management, and hardening. This engagement establishes a managed, reproducible Linux platform across your engineering estate.
Configuration drift across engineering systems can make builds difficult to reproduce and increase operational effort and security exposure.
Greenfield Engineering Platform Design
End to end architecture for new sites and design centres. We design the complete environment covering compute, storage, network, identity, tooling, and security.
Compute, storage, networking, identity, tooling, and security need to work together as one platform. Independent architecture decisions can create integration gaps and costly rework.
ISO 27001:2022 ISMS Implementation
Full certification journey for semiconductor organisations. A complete Information Security Management System implementation built specifically around the risk profile of a design engineering environment.
Semiconductor design environments have specific security considerations involving pre-silicon intellectual property, engineering data, EDA vendors, and controlled information flows.
Engineering Platform Advisory
Ongoing senior advisory without a full time hire. This retainer gives engineering organisations access to senior semiconductor IT judgement on a continuing basis.
Storage and HPC purchase review, vendor architecture second opinion, persistent performance issues, capacity planning, and onboarding of CAD or IT hires.