Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) recently showcased technological breakthroughs in systems engineering solutions at NVIDIA’s GTC conference. These innovations will lay a solid technical foundation for the next era of industrial innovation. With the completion of its merger with Ansys, Synopsys’ expanded product portfolio further enhances development efficiency and product performance, unlocking deep insights for R&D. The applications will span from atomic-level semiconductor design to the development of large-scale physical systems such as automobiles.
Through its deep collaboration with NVIDIA, Synopsys continues to strengthen its AI integration capabilities, empowering smarter manufacturing, chip design, and physical simulation technologies. This enables AI and GPU-accelerated computing across engineering workloads, making R&D more intelligent, efficient, and intuitive.
“AI is redefining what’s possible in engineering and design. By integrating NVIDIA’s AI physics technologies and agentic AI into Synopsys solutions, developers can simulate complex real-world scenarios with ultra-high fidelity and speed, tackling even more challenging R&D tasks.”
Tim Costa
General Manager of Industrial and Computing Engineering, NVIDIA
“Despite increasing system complexity, the pace of engineering R&D continues to accelerate. This demonstrates how AI and GPU acceleration have significantly enhanced the capabilities and performance of our product portfolio. With leading AI expertise and the industry’s most comprehensive GPU-accelerated product portfolio, Synopsys is guiding customers through technological transformation. Our partnership with NVIDIA will drive the next generation of engineering capabilities, R&D speed, and innovation vitality.”
Shankar Krishnamoorthy
Chief Product Development Officer, Synopsys
During the conference, Synopsys and NVIDIA jointly announced the following developments:
Agentic AI Collaboration for Next-Generation Semiconductor R&D
Synopsys is collaborating with NVIDIA to explore new frontiers in AI chip design. By deeply integrating Synopsys’ AgentEngineer™ technology with NVIDIA’s NeMo agent toolkit—which includes NVIDIA Nemotron open models and data—Synopsys further optimizes the efficiency of autonomous design processes. This enhances both development efficiency and design quality while accelerating time-to-market and driving industry innovation.
For example, the Synopsys chip design agent, currently in development, has been applied to formal verification workflows. It not only improves signoff depth and efficiency but also accurately identifies critical vulnerabilities that manual reviews might miss. This highlights the transformative value of AI as an optimization tool, assistant, and collaborative force in engineering R&D. NVIDIA is piloting the use of Synopsys AgentEngineer technology for AI-driven formal verification, further validating its practical application value in advanced design processes.
Expansion of GPU-Accelerated Software Portfolio
Synopsys is expanding its GPU-accelerated software portfolio, the industry’s most comprehensive, which currently includes nearly 20 products designed to address computationally intensive workloads. Key technological breakthroughs include:
Ultra-Fast Physical Simulation:
Ansys Fluent® fluid simulation software achieves a 500x speedup by leveraging GPU-accelerated computing and AI initialization. When running on eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Ansys Fluent processes workloads 50 times faster than on a 258-core CPU. Additionally, by adopting NVIDIA’s PhysicsNeMo AI physics framework and NVIDIA DoMINO NIM tools for simulation, the accuracy of initial solutions is significantly improved, boosting GPU computational efficiency by another 10x. This means simulation tasks that previously took two weeks can now be completed in approximately 40 minutes.
Materials Exploration:
Significant breakthroughs have also been made in computational materials simulation. Leveraging NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technology, Synopsys provides faster and more efficient research methods for materials development and semiconductor design. By integrating Synopsys QuantumATK® atomic simulation with NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and Blackwell architecture, Synopsys enables engineering teams to achieve a 15x improvement in efficiency using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) methods. This breakthrough allows customers to simulate and analyze various materials with exceptional speed and efficiency, injecting strong momentum into the development of next-generation AI-driven applications, products, and systems.
