Synopsys showcases EDA performance, next-gen capabilities with Nvidia computing

The company states: “Building on more than three decades of collaboration, Synopsys (SNPS) announced it is working with NVIDIA (NVDA) to substantially accelerate chip design and advance automotive prototyping using the power of AI and accelerated computing. The announcement was made at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference. Synopsys is applying NVIDIA accelerated compute architectures, including the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, to achieve significant, projected runtime gains of up to 15X compared to current methods, across the full EDA stack spanning design, verification, simulation and manufacturing. Synopsys is extending its Synopsys.ai LLM-based capabilities, beginning with Synopsys.ai Copilot, to support NVIDIA AI and compute platforms, giving customers more flexibility to customize their data sets and enable air-gapped on-prem deployment. Synopsys.ai Copilot is an industry-first generative AI capability that is designed to help engineering teams accelerate time to market and address systemic complexity through the power of conversational intelligence. Synopsys will utilize the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, which includes NVIDIA NeMo(TM) framework, and NVIDIA NIM inference and NeMo Retriever microservices deployment containers. Synopsys customers will be able to deploy Synopsys.ai Copilot on air-gapped on-prem environments, leveraging the accelerated computing performance of NVIDIA DGX systems. The Synopys.ai Copilot capability is currently available for early-access trials. The automotive industry is being transformed by digitalization and accelerated computing. Automotive design teams are now building and validating their products in the digital world before manufacturing them in the real world. Synopsys is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate Synopsys’ leading electronics digital twin solutions with the NVIDIA Omniverse(TM) platform to reduce costs and time to market and improve the safety of software-defined and increasingly autonomous vehicles. Synopsys systems software, virtual ECU and electronics digital twin fabric will be connected with Omniverse, a development platform for building interoperable 3D applications for industrial workloads. Synopsys’ virtual prototyping solutions provide automotive engineering teams with a digital twin of the electronic system of the car to enable the development, testing and validation of the car’s software and electronic systems. Omniverse delivers physically based visualization and simulation of environmental factors.”