Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced the expansion of generative AI (GenAI) capabilities in Synopsys.ai™ Copilot for its semiconductor solutions, an expansion that enables engineering teams to accelerate development timelines, support significantly more complex designs, and increase engineering throughput amid workforce shortages.
Synopsys has been a pioneer in 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 advanced AI-driven solution suite, Synopsys.ai.
The enhanced assistance and generative capabilities of Synopsys.ai Copilot, already in use by early access customers, demonstrate significant improvements in design quality and engineer productivity, accelerating customer development work from days to hours, and from hours to minutes.
"AI is revolutionizing every stage of chip design and driving a wave of inventive capabilities to deliver the next generation of chips on advanced systems," said Sanjay Bally, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Management at Synopsys. "With the latest Synopsys.ai Copilot capabilities supporting assistant and generative applications throughout every stage of chip design and significantly impacting the customer, we empower engineering teams to improve design quality, free up their time for additional high-value opportunities, and accelerate technological innovation."
Synopsys.ai Copilot Capabilities Powered by Generative AI Include:
Assistance GenAI Capabilities: The company’s breakthrough knowledge assistant applications and new workflow assistant are being used by leading Synopsys customers, helping engineers be more productive and faster while using Synopsys tools. Customers using the knowledge assistant report 30% faster production readiness 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 script solution time by an average of 2x; when used with Synopsys PrimeTime®, it produces scripts 10–20 times faster than traditional methods. These significant efficiency improvements allow new engineers to work more independently and effectively with Synopsys tools while maintaining high-quality standards.
Additionally, Synopsys’ knowledge assistant application is now available to all Synopsys Cloud users, both in SaaS deployments and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments. The Synopsys Cloud SaaS platform currently hosts more than 100 start-ups in production. With access to Synopsys’ knowledge assistant seamlessly integrated into their workflows, these start-ups can increase engineering productivity and significantly accelerate tape-out time.
Generative AI Capabilities: Synopsys’ GenAI capabilities, including formal assertion generation and RTL code creation, help early access customers accelerate design and verification timelines from days to hours, and from hours to minutes. For example, a leading AI infrastructure solution provider achieved a 35% increase in engineering productivity for both early-career and expert engineers in formal verification workflows, driven by automatic generation of formal test suites with a high level of syntactic and functional accuracy. The accelerated workflows, combined with improved results, allowed the team to verify 10 design components in just 10 days.
New Ansys Engineering Copilot Deepens GenAI Simulation Capabilities
Additionally, Synopsys is expanding its leadership in AI capabilities for simulation and analysis. Ansys, now part of Synopsys, recently introduced Ansys Engineering Copilot, a versatile virtual assistant that helps shorten learning curves and increase engineer productivity and speed when using Synopsys simulation tools.
The latest Ansys product release also included 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 perform additional design variation testing and shorten product development cycles.
AgentEngineer Technology in Development – First Prototype Demonstrated
Synopsys’ generative AI capabilities form a crucial foundation for the next frontier – AgentEngineer technology for chip design. These single-agent and multi-agent systems are specifically built and trained to make engineering workflows more efficient for human engineers by delivering advanced levels of autonomous execution – increasing productivity and reducing computational demands.
Synopsys and Microsoft continue their close collaboration to advance the era of agentic AI; Synopsys recently demonstrated the first prototype of the capability, based on Microsoft Discovery, at DAC 2025.
"Together, we are not just streamlining existing workflows – we are presenting a new paradigm for advancing engineering innovation and productivity for next-generation chip designs," said Asim Datar, Vice President of Product Innovation at Microsoft. "Our collaboration is redefining what is possible in the industry, leveraging Synopsys’ deep expertise in the field and the power and scale of Microsoft Discovery."