Plunify: Accelerate your FPGA Application's Performance and Time-to-Market

The ever-increasing complexities of FPGA devices and design flows brings new challenges every year. Harnessing increasingly-affordable compute resources, Plunify creates innovative solutions to optimize designs and accelerate product time-to-market.

Plunify makes life easier for users of FPGAs by removing barriers in the design process and saving valuable time as well as resources. Started in 2009 by two passionate engineers, the company focuses on optimizing chip design performance, starting with FPGA applications.

Currently, Plunify has operations in Singapore, Malaysia, China and Japan and counts Fortune Global 500 companies as clients. The company's solutions enable shorter time-to-market, better design processes and predictable outcomes. Hardware and software developers can focus on delivering their FPGA-based applications without worrying about infrastructure and tools.

Plunify’s first product was the EDAxtend platform, a cloud platform specifically designed to let engineers offload complex chip design builds. With cloud computing, data can be generated and analyzed cheaply. From machine learning-driven insights, Plunify created new products for FPGA design, such as the InTime software.

InTime is an expert software that optimizes FPGA design performance. Running on top of major FPGA tools, InTime delivers results quickly and enables higher productivity. It was the first commercial application of machine learning that enables chip design companies to significantly accelerate product Time-To-Market and reduce development costs.

InTime has built-in intelligence to predict optimized strategies for synthesis, placement and routing. It uses machine learning to actively learn from past results, improving the predictions over time. InTime can extract more than 50% increase in design performance from the FPGA tools.

Previous build results, good or bad, are valuable. From re-running previously generated settings to using incremental compilation, newer design revisions can benefit from older builds without going through the entire learning process again. Of course, the more builds InTime does, the higher the likelihood of a better result becomes.

InTime analytics help you understand results and problems across multiple builds, instead of narrowly looking at a single build. From measuring logic vs. routing delays across “Common Critical Paths” (CCP) to “Errors and Warnings” analytics, the tool provides additional clarity on the design characteristics.

"Plunify Cloud is built for FPGA designers to easily utilize the power of cloud computing."

Plunify Cloud

Cloud computing reduces the need for upfront, possibly prohibitive fixed capital investment for a project. While it is simple to start one virtual server, orchestrating, managing and maintaining stable clusters of servers is much more complex.

Plunify Cloud is built for FPGA designers to easily utilize the power of cloud computing. It handles the complex technical and security aspects of managing a cloud infrastructure while simplifying access to it. With a suite of free Plunify cloud-enabled applications, any designer can quickly develop their FPGA projects on the cloud without having to be an IT expert.

Plunify Cloud sits inside the Amazon Web Services and handles the know-how for servers, storage, networking and most importantly, security. With a wide range of server types available, starting an FPGA project in the cloud is just a few clicks away. Take advantage of on-demand compute power and tools to enable faster turnaround time, improve the cost-effectiveness of projects and explore new ways to solve timing problems.

Different cloud resources and types, e.g., storage versus bandwidth, often have different pricing calculations. This can be confusing and often lead to unexpected and hidden costs.

Plunify Cloud uses a cloud credit (or token) system. It simplifies all the different costs such as bandwidth, storage and tool licenses into one single price – USD$0.10 for 1 cloud credit. There are no surprises in your bill and you can budget for it easily.

Usage time on Plunify Cloud is measured in minutes. The amount of credits required depends on the server types, tools and the duration of the usage. Customers can take comfort in the fact that they will only pay for what they use instead of being rounded off to the next hour. Per-minute pricing starts from as low as USD $0.007.

About the Leader

HarnHua Ng, Founder and CEO

Harn Hua has more than a decade of experience in FPGA and embedded systems design at Xilinx, Inc. in San Jose, California and later on, in mobile computing platform development at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Tokyo, Japan. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and is proficient in English, Mandarin and Japanese.

"InTime is an expert software that optimizes FPGA design performance. Running on top of major FPGA tools, InTime delivers results quickly and enables higher productivity."

"Plunify Cloud uses a cloud credit (or token) system. It simplifies all the different costs such as bandwidth, storage and tool licenses into one single price – USD$0.10 for 1 cloud credit."

"Plunify makes life easier for users of FPGAs by removing barriers in the design process and saving valuable time as well as resources."