Synopsys Launches Electronics Digital Twin Platform to Accelerate Physical AI System Development
Synopsys Launches Electronics Digital Twin Platform to Accelerate Physical AI System Development |
| [10-March-2026] |
Open platform enables seamless integrations with a comprehensive technology ecosystem and cloud‑based deployment to improve engineering collaboration and speed time-to-market for intelligent systems Key Highlights
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today launched the Synopsys Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform, a first-of-its-kind, open solution to accelerate the creation, management, deployment, and use of electronics digital twins (eDTs) critical for today's software-defined product development enabling physical AI systems. Initially focused on high-value automotive use cases, the eDT Platform enables OEMs to achieve up to 90% of software validation prior to hardware availability by shifting software development and system integration "left," reducing vehicle development cost and time-to-market.
"Volvo Cars is rapidly adopting holistic, whole‑vehicle validation, and we're bringing that rigor into the earliest stages of design and development," Johannes Foufas, Technical Manager, Software Factory, Volvo Cars. "Core to this transformation is our pioneering use of electronics digital twins working with Synopsys. With virtualized ECUs, our teams can 'shift left' test and validation before hardware exists, enabling us to reduce development cost, increase software quality, and accelerate innovation throughout the lifecycle of our vehicles." "Automotive engineering teams are at their breaking point with more than 600 million lines of software, hundreds of software suppliers, rapidly shrinking development cycles, and mounting cost pressures," said Ravi Subramanian, Chief Product Management Officer. "Intelligent system development from vehicles to AI factories, requires a fundamentally different approach — one that connects silicon designs to software behavior and full‑system validation from the earliest stages of development. With the new eDT Platform, Synopsys is transforming engineering with an end‑to‑end digital twin foundation, bringing together our product and market leadership supplying virtual SoC models and large‑scale system simulations, along with our extensive partner ecosystem, to simplify, accelerate, and scale the development of next‑generation vehicles." Accelerate the Path to Production-Ready Software and Systems with eDT Labs The platform enables users to configure cloud-based eDT Labs, a collection of pre-integrated assets including Synopsys technologies, open‑ecosystem tools, models, software, and scalable compute for high-value automotive use cases such as:
Simplify Creation, Deployment, and Management of eDT Labs The eDT Platform includes Synopsys and partner capabilities that can be used to establish eDT Labs such as:
In addition, eDT Labs can be deployed and managed easily using platform capabilities, including:
"As compute systems grow in complexity, a virtual-first validation approach is essential to improving efficiency and speeding time-to-market for safe, reliable physical AI platforms," Suraj Gajendra, Vice President of Products and Solutions, Physical AI Business Unit, Arm. "With Synopsys' eDT Platform, developers can access a pre-integrated Arm Zena CSS virtual platform in Synopsys Virtualizer and take advantage of Arm-on-Arm hardware-assisted virtualization, using ISA parity and software binary compatibility to validate rich workloads and production software stacks earlier." "Validating complex automotive software traditionally required expensive physical prototypes and took years," said Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager of Automotive and Manufacturing at AWS. "AWS and Synopsys have fundamentally changed that equation. Our Graviton4 processors deliver breakthrough performance for virtual vehicle testing, while our global cloud infrastructure provides the scale automotive teams need. Together, we're helping customers compress 3-4 year development cycles into a fraction of that—a game-changer for the industry." "Software-defined vehicles are reshaping how automotive systems are designed, validated, and operated. As software and AI become the dominant value drivers, the industry must move toward scalable, platform-based development approaches," said Gavin C. Rogers, Senior Vice President at Vector. "By combining Synopsys' electronics digital twin platform with Vector's automotive-proven software platforms and software factory, we are jointly enabling a seamless, software-first development workflow across the entire vehicle lifecycle. Together, we empower automotive customers to industrialize software development, shorten time to market, and sustain continuous innovation at scale." Availability and Additional Resources
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