SUNNYVALE, CA, Mar 13, 2026 – Synopsys has launched the Synopsys Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform, an open solution for building and deploying electronics digital twins (eDTs). The eDT platform supports software-defined product development for emerging physical AI systems. It allows OEMs to validate up to 90% of software before hardware becomes available. By shifting software development and system integration earlier in the cycle, the platform helps reduce vehicle development costs 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 components including Synopsys technologies, open‑ecosystem tools, models, software, and scalable compute for automotive applications such as:
- Early customer evaluation of new System-on-Chip (SoC) or Microcontrollers: Access to early virtual prototypes supports evaluation and product selection decisions.
- Early customer start-of-software development: Support earlier software development before hardware availability using integrated tools.
- Collaborative software development: Enable collaboration between customer teams, suppliers and tool vendors to support product development timelines.
- System validation: Integration in continuous integration/testing workflows allows automated provisioning of eDTs for software validation.
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 debug and test tools, ecosystem tools, and blueprints for building and validating 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 includes 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 development environments.
- Flexible compute options: With SaaS or BYOC deployment options, the eDT Platform uses cloud-based compute resources. For example, it can run on AWS cloud infrastructure and AWS Graviton4 processors for automotive software development tasks.
“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.”
Source: Synopsys
About Synopsys
Synopsys Inc. is a U.S. software and semiconductor technology company founded in 1986. The company develops electronic design automation software, semiconductor intellectual property, and verification tools used to design and test integrated circuits. Its products help engineers design, simulate, verify, and manage semiconductor chips and electronic systems. Synopsys also provides software security testing and engineering analysis tools through internal development and acquisitions. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers, electronics companies, system integrators, and software developers. Its customers operate in industries such as semiconductors, automotive, aerospace, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and data centers. Synopsys is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. The company employs about 28,000 people worldwide and serves customers across global technology sectors. Synopsys operates offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.