Synopsys Launches Electronics Digital Twin Platform

Synopsys, Inc. has launched the Synopsys Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform, an open solution to accelerate the creation, management, deployment, and use of electronics digital twins (eDTs) for software-defined product development enabling physical AI systems. 

"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," says Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer. "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."

Production-Ready Software

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 automotive use cases such as:

1. Early customer evaluation of new system-on-chip or microcontrollers: Frictionless access to early virtual prototypes reduces time to selection.
2. Early customer start-of-software development: Shift-left milestones by starting software development well before hardware availability with pre-integrated tools support.
3. Collaborative software development: Enable collaboration between customer teams, suppliers and tool vendors to accelerate time to market.
4. System validation: Integration in continuous integration/testing workflows with provisioning of eDTs reduces validation effort while improving software quality.

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:

• Synopsys' virtualization and AI technologies, along with advanced debug, test tools, ecosystem integration, and blueprints to build and validate eDTs.
• System composition using the open-source SIL Kit by Vector and Synopsys, enabling teams to assemble and connect virtual ECUs, models, and software components.
• A set of pre-integrated ecosystem partner technologies including silicon models; simulation, debug and analysis tools; and software IP; among others.

In addition, eDT Labs can be deployed and managed using platform capabilities, including:

• Provisioning: The platform provides a set of features such as role-based user management, secure access and encryption, administrative analytics, global license provisioning, and a workflow editor.
• User interfaces, applications, and APIs (CLI and TEST APIs) to integrate with commercial and customer software factory solutions.
• Flexible compute options: With SaaS or BYOC deployment options, the eDT Platform leverages flexible compute in the cloud. 

Availability and Additional Resources
Customers interested in deploying an electronics digital twin can engage with Synopsys regarding the eDT Platform. For more information, visit: https://www.synopsys.com/edt.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.