PITTSBURGH, PA, Aug 13, 2025 – As industries push for faster design cycles, engineering teams often switch between separate simulation and visualization tools, adding time and complexity. A new integration embeds Omniverse technology into simulation workflows, starting with CFD, autonomous systems and 6G projects, to streamline analysis and accelerate design decisions. Ansys and NVIDIA signed an agreement that allows Ansys to license, sell and support Omniverse technology within its simulation products. The deal focuses on delivering Omniverse capabilities to engineering teams to improve interoperability, data handling and visualization across projects.
Ansys technology utilizes Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) to integrate with Omniverse technologies, enabling accessible, workflows across simulation applications. By leveraging Omniverse platform capabilities from the Ansys interface, teams innovate, tackle challenges, and achieve research breakthroughs.
The agreement supports interoperability among CAE tools. This creates a unified workflow, which is crucial for CFD applications. Engineers can visualize fluid dynamics in digital environments, making it easier to analyze complex datasets. This approach supports design adjustments for various engineering tasks.
The integration provides engineers with outputs, which helps in developing, training, testing, and validating autonomous systems. Automating scenario generation and exploration supports the process of checking these systems for safety, accuracy, efficiency, and reliability.
“Product development processes are only getting more complex, so modern teams need a virtual environment that allows them to simulate, visualize, iterate, and collaborate,” said Walt Hearn, senior vice president of worldwide sales and customer excellence at Synopsys. “By integrating advanced Omniverse technologies and libraries, our customers drive innovation in simulation-led workflows, empowering teams to achieve greater efficiency, performance, and scalability.”
Moreover, PyAnsys, a family of Python packages, enables users to customize and automate simulations built on NVIDIA Omniverse. One illustrative example highlighting this joint work with NVIDIA is PyAnsys-Heart, a digital twin of the human heart that unlocks simulation insights through a speech-to-text interface requiring minimal engineering expertise.
“To address the complexity of modern engineering challenges, industries require precise physical AI models, highly accurate digital twins, accessible high-resolution simulation tools, and physics-accurate virtual environments to solve real-world problems and enable reliable performance predictions,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation at NVIDIA. “Combining the predictive power of Ansys solvers with NVIDIA simulation technologies and libraries is a turning point for industries striving to simulate reality with precision.”
Source: Synopsys
About Synopsys
Synopsys Inc., founded in 1986 and based in Sunnyvale, California, provides software and intellectual property for semiconductor design and verification. Its tools support the full chip development process, including electronic design automation, simulation, silicon IP, and software security testing. The company serves a range of industries, including semiconductors, automotive, aerospace, defense, data centers and industrial systems. Synopsys reported revenue of approximately $6.13 billion in fiscal year 2024 and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Its technology is used by leading chipmakers and system developers to accelerate innovation in complex areas such as artificial intelligence and advanced computing. Synopsys recently announced plans to acquire Ansys, expanding its capabilities into multiphysics simulation and further strengthening its role in the electronic and system design ecosystem.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation, based in Santa Clara, CA, is a U.S. technology company specializing in the design and production of graphics processing units (GPUs). Its hardware and software solutions support a range of applications and simulation. Operating for over 30 years, NVIDIA has seen strong financial growth, reporting $39.3 billion in revenue and $22.1 billion in net income for the fiscal quarter ending January 2025. Its headquarters are designed to promote a flat organizational structure that encourages open communication and collaboration between leadership and staff across industries. In gaming, its GPUs power high-performance visual rendering. In artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, NVIDIA provides the infrastructure needed for training and deploying large-scale models. The company also contributes to the automotive sector with systems for autonomous driving and supports robotics with tools for AI-based perception.