Synopsys announced the launch of its Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform, an open solution designed to help engineering teams create, manage, deploy, and use electronics digital twins for complex software-defined systems. The company said the platform is intended to transform how modern intelligent systems are designed and validated by connecting silicon, software, and system-level development earlier in the engineering process.
The eDT Platform enables organizations to build digital representations of electronic systems, allowing developers to test software, integrate components, and validate performance before physical hardware is available. Synopsys said this shift allows teams to move software development and validation earlier in the development cycle, reducing costs and accelerating time to market.
The platform is initially focused on automotive use cases, where vehicles now contain hundreds of millions of lines of software code and increasingly rely on AI-driven capabilities. Synopsys said the technology enables automakers to complete up to 90 percent of software validation before hardware prototypes exist, significantly shortening vehicle development timelines.
The system allows users to configure cloud-based environments known as eDT Labs, which include pre-integrated tools, software models, computing resources, and ecosystem partner technologies. These labs support early software development, system integration, and collaborative workflows across engineering teams, suppliers, and technology partners.
Synopsys said eDT Labs can support several key automotive development activities, including early evaluation of system-on-chip or microcontroller designs, starting software development before hardware availability, collaborative development across multiple stakeholders, and continuous system validation through integration with testing workflows.
The platform also includes capabilities for provisioning and managing these environments. These features include role-based user access, encryption and secure administration, analytics for engineering workflows, and licensing management. Developers can interact with the platform through user interfaces, applications, and APIs that integrate with commercial and custom software factory environments.
Synopsys noted that the platform supports flexible compute infrastructure and can run in the cloud via software-as-a-service deployments or customer-provided cloud environments. The system can also leverage AWS infrastructure and Graviton4 processors to provide the computational capacity needed for large-scale simulation and validation of complex systems.
The company said the platform integrates a broad ecosystem of partner technologies, including silicon models, debugging tools, simulation platforms, and software intellectual property. It also incorporates open-source system composition tools, such as the SIL Kit developed by Vector and Synopsys, to assemble virtual electronic control units, models, and software components into full system simulations.
Synopsys said the platform is designed to support the growing complexity of AI-enabled systems such as autonomous vehicles, AI factories, and other software-defined machines where hardware and software development must evolve together.
KEY QUOTES
“Volvo Cars is rapidly adopting holistic, whole-vehicle validation, and we’re bringing that rigor into the earliest stages of design and development. 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.”
Johannes Foufas, Technical Manager, Software Factory, Volvo Cars
“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. 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.”
Ravi Subramanian, Chief Product Management Officer, Synopsys
“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. 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.”
Suraj Gajendra, Vice President Of Products And Solutions, Physical AI Business Unit, Arm
“Validating complex automotive software traditionally required expensive physical prototypes and took years. 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.”
Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager Of Automotive And Manufacturing, AWS
“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. 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.”
Gavin C. Rogers, Senior Vice President, Vector
