Synopsys, Inc. has introduced the Synopsys Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform, an open and innovative solution designed to accelerate the creation, deployment, and management of electronics digital twins. With the rapid rise of software-defined products and physical AI systems, the new platform aims to transform how engineering teams develop and validate complex electronic systems. Initially, the platform focuses on high-value automotive applications, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to validate up to 90% of vehicle software before hardware becomes available. As a result, automotive companies can shift software development and system integration earlier in the lifecycle, significantly reducing development costs while also speeding up time-to-market.
As the automotive industry continues to evolve toward software-centric vehicles, early validation and testing have become increasingly important. By enabling engineers to simulate complex electronic systems in a virtual environment, the Synopsys eDT Platform helps teams detect issues earlier in the development process. Consequently, organisations can minimize expensive late-stage corrections and improve product reliability.
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“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.”
Modern vehicles now include hundreds of millions of lines of software, making development cycles more complex than ever before. Engineering teams must coordinate across numerous suppliers while managing tighter timelines and growing cost pressures. In response, Synopsys designed the eDT Platform to connect silicon design, software behavior, and full-system validation into a unified workflow from the earliest development stages.
“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.”
Accelerating Software and System Development with eDT Labs
To further support development teams, the platform introduces cloud-based eDT Labs, which provide pre-integrated assets including Synopsys technologies, open-ecosystem tools, models, and scalable compute resources. These labs help automotive companies address several key use cases.
First, the platform enables early customer evaluation of new System-on-Chip (SoC) or microcontrollers, providing frictionless access to virtual prototypes and helping teams make faster technology selection decisions. In addition, developers can start software development significantly earlier than traditional timelines allow. By doing so, organizations shift critical milestones forward while ensuring software is ready when hardware becomes available.
Furthermore, eDT Labs enhance collaborative software development by enabling seamless coordination between OEM teams, suppliers, and tool vendors. This collaborative environment helps reduce bottlenecks while accelerating innovation. At the same time, the platform supports system validation through continuous integration and testing workflows, allowing teams to quickly provision digital twins and validate complex automotive systems efficiently.
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Simplifying the Creation and Management of Digital Twin Environments
The eDT Platform integrates a wide range of Synopsys technologies alongside ecosystem partner tools to simplify the creation and deployment of digital twin environments. For instance, Synopsys combines advanced virtualization technologies, AI-driven capabilities, debugging tools, and testing solutions to help teams rapidly build and validate electronics digital twins.
In addition, the platform supports system composition using the open-source SIL Kit developed by Vector and Synopsys. This capability allows engineering teams to quickly assemble and connect virtual electronic control units (ECUs), models, and software components. Moreover, developers gain access to a broad set of pre-integrated ecosystem technologies, including silicon models, simulation tools, debugging platforms, and software IP.
Beyond development capabilities, the platform also simplifies deployment and operational management. Built-in features such as role-based user management, secure access controls, encryption, administrative analytics, and global license provisioning ensure enterprise-grade governance. Additionally, developers can integrate the platform with existing software factory solutions using APIs, command-line interfaces, and testing tools.
To support large-scale workloads, the eDT Platform offers flexible cloud compute options, including SaaS and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) deployment models. For example, organizations can run the platform on AWS infrastructure powered by Graviton4 processors, which deliver the performance required for large-scale automotive simulations.
“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.”
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