Synopsys Announces Expanding AI Capabilities for its Leading EDA Solutions
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) has announced expanded Synopsys.ai Copilot generative AI capabilities for its semiconductor design solutions. The enhanced AI features demonstrate significant improvements in design quality and engineer productivity, with workflows being accelerated from days to hours and hours to minutes.
Key highlights include 30% faster ramp time for early-career engineers using knowledge assistant, 2X faster script solutions on average, and 10X-20X faster script generation with PrimeTime. A leading AI infrastructure provider achieved a 35% boost in engineering productivity using formal verification workflows. The company also introduced Ansys Engineering Copilot and demonstrated its first AgentEngineer technology prototype in collaboration with Microsoft.
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) ha annunciato l'espansione delle capacità generative di IA di Synopsys.ai Copilot per le sue soluzioni di progettazione di semiconduttori. Le funzionalità AI potenziate mostrano miglioramenti significativi nella qualità del progetto e nella produttività degli ingegneri, accelerando i flussi di lavoro da giorni a ore e da ore a minuti.
I punti salienti includono un 30% in meno di tempo necessario per il ramp-up per gli ingegneri alle prime armi grazie al knowledge assistant, una media di 2X più rapide le soluzioni di scripting e una generazione di script fino a 10X-20X più veloce con PrimeTime. Un importante fornitore di infrastrutture AI ha registrato un +35% di produttività ingegneristica usando flussi di lavoro di verifica formale. L'azienda ha inoltre presentato Ansys Engineering Copilot e ha dimostrato il primo prototipo della tecnologia AgentEngineer in collaborazione con Microsoft.
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) ha anunciado la ampliación de las capacidades generativas de IA de Synopsys.ai Copilot para sus soluciones de diseño de semiconductores. Las funciones de IA mejoradas muestran mejoras significativas en la calidad del diseño y la productividad de los ingenieros, acelerando los flujos de trabajo de días a horas y de horas a minutos.
Los puntos clave incluyen un 30% menos de tiempo de incorporación para ingenieros en inicio de carrera gracias al knowledge assistant, 2X más rápidas las soluciones de scripting de media, y una generación de scripts de 10X-20X más rápida con PrimeTime. Un proveedor líder de infraestructura de IA logró un 35% de aumento en la productividad de ingeniería usando flujos de trabajo de verificación formal. La compañía también presentó Ansys Engineering Copilot y mostró el primer prototipo de su tecnología AgentEngineer en colaboración con Microsoft.
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS)가 반도체 설계 솔루션을 위한 Synopsys.ai Copilot 생성형 AI 기능을 확대했다고 발표했습니다. 강화된 AI 기능은 설계 품질과 엔지니어 생산성이 크게 향상되었음을 보여주며, 워크플로우를 일 단위에서 시간 단위로, 시간 단위에서 분 단위로 가속화합니다.
주요 내용으로는 knowledge assistant를 활용해 초기 경력 엔지니어의 온보딩 시간 30% 단축, 평균적으로 스크립트 해결 2배 빠름, PrimeTime을 통한 스크립트 생성 10X-20X 가속이 있습니다. 한 선도적인 AI 인프라 제공업체는 형식 검증 워크플로우를 사용해 엔지니어링 생산성 35% 향상을 달성했습니다. 회사는 또한 Ansys Engineering Copilot을 도입하고 Microsoft와 협력해 AgentEngineer 기술의 첫 프로토타입을 시연했습니다.
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) a annoncé l'élargissement des capacités d'IA générative de Synopsys.ai Copilot pour ses solutions de conception de semi‑conducteurs. Les fonctionnalités IA améliorées montrent des gains significatifs en qualité de conception et en productivité des ingénieurs, accélérant les flux de travail de jours à heures et d'heures à minutes.
Parmi les points clés: 30% de réduction du temps de montée en compétence pour les ingénieurs en début de carrière grâce au knowledge assistant, des solutions de scripts en moyenne 2X plus rapides, et une génération de scripts 10X–20X plus rapide avec PrimeTime. Un important fournisseur d'infrastructure IA a obtenu une amélioration de 35% de la productivité en ingénierie en utilisant des workflows de vérification formelle. La société a également présenté Ansys Engineering Copilot et démontré son premier prototype de la technologie AgentEngineer en collaboration avec Microsoft.
Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) hat erweiterte generative KI-Funktionen von Synopsys.ai Copilot für seine Halbleiter-Designlösungen angekündigt. Die verbesserten KI-Funktionen zeigen deutliche Verbesserungen bei Designqualität und Ingenieursproduktivität und beschleunigen Workflows von Tagen auf Stunden und von Stunden auf Minuten.
Zu den wichtigsten Highlights gehören 30% schnellere Einarbeitungszeit für Berufseinsteiger durch den Knowledge Assistant, im Schnitt 2X schnellere Skriptlösungen und eine 10X–20X schnellere Skripterstellung mit PrimeTime. Ein führender Anbieter von KI-Infrastruktur erzielte durch formale Verifikations-Workflows eine 35% Steigerung der Ingenieursproduktivität. Das Unternehmen stellte zudem den Ansys Engineering Copilot vor und präsentierte in Zusammenarbeit mit Microsoft den ersten Prototyp der AgentEngineer-Technologie.
- 30% faster ramp time for early-career engineers using knowledge assistant
- Script generation 10X-20X faster than traditional methods with PrimeTime
- 35% productivity boost observed by early access customers in verification workflows
- Successful integration with Synopsys Cloud platform serving over 100 startups
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Synopsys' expanded AI capabilities could significantly boost engineering productivity and create competitive advantages in the semiconductor design space.
Synopsys is strategically expanding its AI capabilities across its electronic design automation (EDA) portfolio, positioning itself at the forefront of AI-driven semiconductor design. The company's Synopsys.ai Copilot enhancements target a critical industry pain point—engineering productivity amid workforce shortages—with both assistive and creative AI applications.
The quantifiable efficiency gains reported are substantial and directly impact customer ROI: workflows accelerated from days to hours, 30% faster ramp time for early-career engineers, and scripts generated 10X-20X faster than traditional methods when using PrimeTime. These metrics demonstrate meaningful productivity enhancements rather than incremental improvements.
Particularly significant is the formal verification productivity boost of 35% reported by an AI infrastructure customer, allowing validation of 10 design components in just 10 days. This addresses one of the most challenging bottlenecks in modern chip design—verification complexity—which typically consumes 60-70% of design time and resources.
Synopsys' integration of AI capabilities into its Cloud SaaS platform for over 100 startups represents an intelligent strategy to solidify its market position across customer segments, from established semiconductor companies to emerging players.
The collaboration with Microsoft on AgentEngineer technology signals Synopsys' longer-term vision beyond current generative AI applications toward more autonomous design systems. This progressive roadmap from L2 (step-level actions) to L5 (autonomous decision making) demonstrates forward-thinking investment in next-generation EDA capabilities.
The recent Ansys acquisition appears to be strategically integrated into this AI vision, with Engineering Copilot and SimAI extending these capabilities into simulation and analysis workflows—areas traditionally considered separate from core EDA but increasingly critical for complex chip designs.
GenAI capabilities accelerate workflows from days to hours, hours to minutes
Synopsys pioneered AI as a core capability of modern chip design, applying reinforcement learning and GenAI capabilities to help customers optimize silicon performance, improve efficiency, and accelerate time to market with its Synopsys.ai advanced suite of AI-powered solutions. The expanded Synopsys.ai Copilot assistive and creative capabilities have been in use with early access customers and are demonstrating significant design quality and engineer productivity gains, accelerating customer workflows from days to hours, and hours to minutes.
"AI is revolutionizing every layer of chip design and fueling a wave of ingenuity to deliver the next generation of advanced SoCs," said Sanjay Bali, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Product Management, Synopsys. "With the latest Synopsys.ai Copilot capabilities supporting assistive and creative applications across the chip design flow and delivering significant customer impact, we are empowering engineering teams to increase the quality of designs, free their time for additional high-value opportunities, and accelerate technology innovation."
Generative AI-powered Synopsys.ai Copilot capabilities include:
- Assistive GenAI Capabilities: The company's breakthrough knowledge assistant and new workflow assistant applications are being used by Synopsys' top customers, helping engineers be more productive and faster while using Synopsys tools. Of note, customers using knowledge assistant are reporting
30% faster ramp time for early-career engineers. Documentation searches and script generation that previously took hours now take minutes with Synopsys.ai Copilot. For example, the new workflow assistant application improves time to solutions for scripts by 2X on average; when utilized with Synopsys PrimeTime® it generates scripts 10X-20X faster than traditional methods. These significant efficiency gains are allowing newer engineers to work more independently and efficiently in Synopsys tools while maintaining high quality standards.
In addition, Synopsys' knowledge assistant application is now available for all Synopsys Cloud users on both SaaS and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments. The Synopsys Cloud SaaS platform currently hosts more than 100 startups in production. With access to Synopsys' knowledge assistant application integrated seamlessly within their workflows, these startups can fuel engineering productivity and significantly accelerate time-to-tape out. - Creative GenAI Capabilities: Synopsys' creative GenAI capabilities, including formal assertion generation and RTL code generation, are helping early access customers accelerate design and verification cycle times from days to hours, and hours to minutes. For example, a leading AI infrastructure solutions provider observed a
35% boost in engineering productivity for early-career and expert engineers within formal verification workflows, driven by automated formal testbench creation with a high degree of syntactic and functional accuracy. The accelerated workflow combined with improved results enabled the team to validate 10 design components in just 10 days.
New Ansys Engineering Copilot Deepens GenAI Simulation Capabilities
In addition, Synopsys is extending its AI capability leadership to simulation and analysis. Ansys, now part of Synopsys, recently introduced Ansys Engineering Copilot™, a multifunctional virtual assistant that helps shorten learning curves as well as increase engineer productivity and speed while using Synopsys simulation tools. The latest Ansys product release also featured updates to Ansys SimAI™, a physics-agnostic application that combines the predictive accuracy of Ansys simulation with the speed of AI. SimAI is now integrated with Ansys optiSLang®, accelerating dataset creation and AI training to unlock further design variation exploration and shortened product development cycles.
AgentEngineer™ Technology Under Development—First Prototype Demonstrated
Synopsys' generative AI capabilities are an essential foundation for the next frontier—AgentEngineerTM technology for chip design. These agents and multi-agent systems are specifically built and trained to make engineering workflows more efficient for human engineers by introducing progressive levels of autonomous execution—increasing productivity, leading to better results, and reducing computation requirements. Synopsys and Microsoft are continuing their close collaboration to usher in this era of agentic AI; Synopsys recently showcased the first prototype of the capability at DAC 2025, built on Microsoft Discovery.
"Together, we are not just optimizing existing workflows—we are introducing a new paradigm to advance engineering innovation and productivity for next-generation chip designs," said Aseem Datar, Vice President, Product Innovation at Microsoft. "Our collaboration is redefining what is possible in the industry, leveraging Synopsys' deep domain expertise and the power and scale of Microsoft Discovery."
Synopsys' vision for AgentEngineerTM technology is for it to progress from performing step-level actions of single agents (L2) to complex actions with multi-agents (L3) to dynamic flow optimization with adaptive learning (L4), and finally to autonomous decision making (L5). To learn more about Synopsys' AI-powered design solutions, visit: https://www.synopsys.com/ai.html.
About Synopsys
Catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) delivers trusted and comprehensive silicon to systems design solutions, from electronic design automation to silicon IP and system verification and validation. We partner closely with semiconductor and systems customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
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