Synopsys launches the eDT Platform, a digital twin solution that helps reducing development cost and improves innovation.
Synopsys launched the Synopsys Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Platform today, a first-of-its-kind open solution to improve the development, administration, deployment, and utilization of electronics digital twins (eDTs), that are essential for today's software-defined product development allowing physical AI systems.
By offering advanced simulation capabilities, the platform seeks to improve electronics design and testing by empowering engineers to develop more precise and effective AI-driven systems. By moving software development and system integration "left," the eDT Platform, which was initially concentrated on high-value automotive use cases, allows OEMs to accomplish up to 90% of software validation before hardware availability, lowering vehicle development costs and time-to-market.
According to Johannes Foufas, Technical Manager of Volvo Cars' Software Factory, the company is quickly implementing holistic, whole-vehicle validation and incorporating that rigor into the very beginning of design and development. Their innovative usage of digital twins for electronics in collaboration with Synopsys is fundamental to this change. He added that their teams are able to lower development costs, improve software quality, and accelerate innovation throughout the lifecycle of their vehicles by using virtualized ECUs to "shift left" test and validation before hardware is available.
The company said the eDT Platform can be deployed via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or in a bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) model and it offers a full suite of utilities and management capabilities for a wide range of use cases, from design evaluation and early software development to full-scale silicon-to-system development, validation, and collaboration.
