Synopsys Expands GenAI Copilot Capabilities to Accelerate Chip Design
Synopsys announced an expansion of its Synopsys.ai Copilot GenAI capabilities to speed semiconductor design, help handle more complex designs, and boost engineering velocity amid a workforce shortage. The company positions AI as a core element of modern chip design, using reinforcement learning and GenAI to optimize silicon performance, improve efficiency, and accelerate time-to-market across its Synopsys.ai suite. The expanded Copilot features, covering assistive and creative tasks across the design flow, are already in use with early access customers and are delivering measurable gains in design quality and productivity, shrinking workflows from days to hours and from hours to minutes.
Generative AI-powered Copilot capabilities now include New Ansys Engineering Copilot, which deepens GenAI simulation capabilities. Ansys, now part of Synopsys, recently introduced Ansys Engineering Copilot—a virtual assistant that helps shorten learning curves and boost engineer productivity when using Synopsys simulation tools. The release also updates Ansys SimAI, a physics-agnostic tool blending the predictive accuracy of simulation with AI speed, and SimAI is integrated with Ansys optiSLang to accelerate dataset creation and AI training for broader design variation exploration and shorter development cycles.
AgentEngineer Technology Under Development—First Prototype Demonstrated highlights the next frontier. Synopsys’ GenAI capabilities underpin AgentEngineer, designed to enable progressive autonomous execution in engineering workflows. A prototype was showcased at DAC 2025 in collaboration with Microsoft Discovery, signaling a new paradigm for agentic AI. Synopsys envisions advancing AgentEngineer from single-agent steps to multi-agent collaboration, then dynamic flow optimization and autonomous decision making.
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