Expanding Decades of Collaboration
Across Synopsys' Full EDA Stack
News Highlights:
- Enabling Synopsys' industry-leading full AI-driven EDA stack on
the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip; projecting up to 15x
run-time gains across design, verification, simulation and
manufacturing
- Integrating Synopsys.ai generative AI capabilities for chip
design with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform — including
NVIDIA microservices — and NVIDIA accelerated computing
infrastructure
- Extending Synopsys automotive virtual prototyping solutions
with NVIDIA Omniverse to deliver next-generation digital twins
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on more than three
decades of collaboration, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today
announced it is working with NVIDIA 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 has a proud history of empowering engineering teams to
solve previously unsolvable challenges, and now we're taking that
to the next level by harnessing the power of AI and accelerated
computing," said Sassine Ghazi,
president and CEO of Synopsys. "Today, we're presenting the
performance potential across Synopsys' leading full EDA stack
supercharged by the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper™ Superchip, along
with new initiatives with NVIDIA to help maximize the capabilities
of engineering teams working on technologies from silicon to
automotive systems."
Accelerating Synopsys' Industry-Leading AI-Driven EDA Suite
on NVIDIA GPUs
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. Specifically:
- Synopsys VCS®: Industry's highest-performance simulation and
constraint solver engines accelerate functional verification
workloads on NVIDIA GPUs. Using advanced Fine-Grained Parallelism
(FGP) technology and massively parallelized graph evaluation
enables users to find bugs earlier, faster and smarter.
- Synopsys Fusion Compiler™: Enables accelerated hybrid CPU/GPU
performance scaling across digital placement, providing massive
parallelization for compute-intensive exploration and
optimization.
- Synopsys PrimeSim™: Accelerates SPICE simulation workloads by
leveraging the power of NVIDIA GPUs. The heterogeneous, accelerated
compute architecture enables the simulation of challenging circuits
to achieve signoff with SPICE-level accuracy, reducing runtimes
from days to hours.
- Synopsys Proteus™: Provides optical proximity correction
software (OPC) for the acceleration of computational lithography,
the largest workload in the semiconductor manufacturing process.
Synopsys OPC software running on the NVIDIA cuLitho software
library dramatically accelerates computational lithography
workloads compared to current CPU-based methods.
"Our collaboration with Synopsys on generative AI and digital
twins is central to the future design, automation and manufacturing
of chips," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Synopsys'
EDA suite, together with NVIDIA's accelerated computing
architecture, demonstrates the gains that can be achieved for these
exceptionally demanding industrial workloads."
In addition, Synopsys and TSMC are going to production with
NVIDIA cuLitho, a computational lithography platform, to accelerate
manufacturing and push the limits of physics for the next
generation of advanced semiconductor chips.
Collaborating to Advance Generative AI for Chip
Design
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™ 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.
Transforming Automotive Design with Electronics and
Environmental Digital Twins
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™ 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.
Together, these capabilities can provide engineering teams with
a digital twin of both the vehicle electronics and the environment,
allowing them to test and validate embedded software, safety and
autonomy features well ahead of production. Synopsys expects to
begin engaging with lead customers on the solution in the second
half of 2024, with general availability expected in 2025.
About Synopsys
Catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, Synopsys, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNPS) delivers trusted and comprehensive silicon to
systems design solutions, from electronic design automation to
silicon IP and system verification and validation. We partner
closely with semiconductor and systems customers across a wide
range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and
productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity
of tomorrow. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements,
including, but not limited to, statements regarding strategies
related to products, technology and services and planned product
releases and capabilities. These statements involve risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual
results, time frames or achievements to differ materially from
those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Such
risks, uncertainties and factors that could affect Synopsys'
results is included in filings we make with the SEC from time to
time, including in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" in our
latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our latest Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q. The information provided herein is as of
March 20, 2024. Synopsys undertakes
no duty to, and does not intend to, update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, unless required by law.
EDITORIAL CONTACT
Kelli Wheeler
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-5000
corp-pr@synopsys.com
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