Synopsys and NVIDIA boost AI-driven chip design
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Synopsys Inc . (NASDAQ:), a leader in silicon to systems design solutions, announced today its collaboration with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:) to significantly accelerate chip design processes and advance automotive prototyping through AI and accelerated computing.
This partnership aims to achieve up to 15 times faster run-times across various electronic design automation (EDA) tasks, leveraging NVIDIA’s GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and other GPU architectures.
The companies are focusing on enhancing Synopsys’ EDA suite to optimize functional verification, digital placement, SPICE simulation, and computational lithography workloads on NVIDIA GPUs.
For instance, Synopsys VCS is set to speed up functional verification, while the Fusion Compiler and PrimeSim will benefit from hybrid CPU/GPU scaling and accelerated SPICE simulations, respectively. Synopsys Proteus will utilize NVIDIA’s cuLitho software to expedite computational lithography, a critical step in semiconductor manufacturing.
In addition to performance enhancements, Synopsys is integrating its generative AI capabilities for chip design with NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software platform. This includes the Synopsys.ai Copilot, a conversational intelligence tool designed to help engineering teams tackle complexity and speed up time to market. The tool will support deployment on NVIDIA DGX systems in air-gapped on-prem environments.
The collaboration extends to the automotive sector, where Synopsys is working with NVIDIA Omniverse to develop next-generation digital twins for virtual prototyping of automotive electronics.
This integration aims to reduce costs, shorten time to market, and enhance the safety of increasingly autonomous vehicles. The combined solution is expected to be available to select customers in the latter half of 2024, with a broader release anticipated in 2025.
Synopsys and NVIDIA’s joint efforts also include going to production with TSMC using the NVIDIA cuLitho platform to push the boundaries of semiconductor manufacturing technology.
This announcement, made at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, underscores the longstanding partnership between Synopsys and NVIDIA, which spans over three decades. The collaboration is set to empower engineering teams with advanced tools and platforms, enabling more efficient and innovative chip design and automotive systems development.
The information in this article is based on a press release statement from Synopsys, Inc.
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