Accelerating Verification with NVIDIA & Synopsys
NVIDIA has announced a strategic multiyear partnership with Synopsys, starting with a $2 billion investment in the EDA leader. The collaboration combines NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated computing and AI expertise with Synopsys’ engineering and verification platforms. Together, they plan to accelerate design verification workflows for ASICs, SoCs and complex semiconductor projects.
The partnership emphasises AI-powered verification and simulation, leveraging GPU acceleration and digital twin technologies to streamline complex chip design processes. Engineers can expect accelerated verification loops, improved regression testing and enhanced physical and system-level simulations – potentially reducing functional verification cycles from weeks to days.
Synopsys plans to integrate NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing technologies across its existing toolchains, including simulation, synthesis, verification and other compute-intensive applications. This integration supports intelligent test planning, AI-assisted debugging and automated verification workflows – making advanced verification more accessible to large silicon companies and mid-sized design teams.
CEO Insights on AI-Enhanced Verification
“CUDA GPU-accelerated computing is revolutionizing design — enabling simulation at unprecedented speed and scale, from atoms to transistors, from chips to complete systems, creating fully functional digital twins inside the computer,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
“The complexity and cost of developing next-generation intelligent systems demands engineering solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, accelerated by AI capabilities and compute. No two companies are better positioned to deliver AI-powered, holistic system design solutions than Synopsys and NVIDIA,” said Sassine Ghazi, president and CEO of Synopsys. “Together we will re-engineer engineering and empower innovators everywhere to more efficiently realize their innovations.”
For ASIC design verification engineers, this partnership signals a shift towards GPU-accelerated, AI-enhanced verification workflows, highlighting the growing role of AI and high-performance computing in cutting-edge semiconductor development.
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