Synopsys’ Ravi Subramaniam on Virtualization of Chip Design

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Final week, Synopsys used its consumer group convention, SNUG 2024, to announce a collaboration with Nvidia to combine Synopsys’ electronics digital twin options with the Nvidia Omniverse platform to cut back design time whereas making certain security in areas like software-defined automobiles.

EE Instances beforehand talked to CEO Sassine Ghazi on among the bulletins from the occasion. We additionally managed to catch Ravi Subramaniam, normal supervisor of the methods design group at Synopsys, to elucidate extra concerning the virtualization of chip design, the altering nature of shoppers (e.g. Tesla), and the way Synopsys instruments—coupled with the acquisition of PikeTec final yr and now Ansys—builds out the corporate’s means to ship the instruments wanted to cope with the interaction of {hardware} and software program co-design for complicated gadgets.

Subramaniam, who joined Synopsys from Siemens Digital Industries in 2022 to handle the methods group, mentioned, “There are tectonic adjustments in methods improvement. As increasingly software program comes right into a product, there’s a possibility to develop new enterprise fashions, and there’s a variety of pleasure about that—but additionally, there’s [the question] what does it do to product improvement, and a variety of the normal components actually begin breaking the place you could have the mannequin, I’ll construct {hardware}, write the software program after which check the product. So, the event cycle adjustments from one which’s sequential, to at least one that’s extra steady integration of conventional improvement, but additionally introducing virtualization to do issues earlier and earlier.”

The automotive business is seen as a key business to profit from this, he explains. For instance, automotive design groups are constructing and validating their merchandise within the digital world earlier than manufacturing them in the true world. Synopsys introduced a collaboration with Nvidia through which Synopsys’ methods software program, digital ECU and electronics digital twin cloth shall be linked with Omniverse—a improvement platform for constructing interoperable 3D purposes for industrial workloads.

Synopsys’ digital prototyping options present automotive engineering groups with a digital twin of the digital system of the automotive to allow the event, testing and validation of the automotive’s software program and digital methods. Omniverse delivers physically-based visualization and simulation of environmental elements.

These capabilities collectively present engineering groups with a digital twin of each the car electronics and the atmosphere, permitting them to check and validate embedded software program, security, and autonomy options properly forward of manufacturing. Synopsys expects to start participating with lead clients on the answer within the second half of 2024, with normal availability anticipated in 2025.