Driving the Future of Automotive: How Synopsys and Tata Elxsi Are Powering Electronics Digital Twin (eDT) Adoption

The highly competitive automotive industry is facing unprecedented levels of change. As OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers aggressively transition to software-defined vehicles (SDVs), development cycles are under pressure, rapidly shrinking from three or four years to less than two. Automotive companies need to find innovative ways to develop high-quality, highly integrated systems at a breakneck pace.

To step up to this challenge, automotive OEMs and their suppliers are seeking to complete as much development, testing, and validation as possible in virtual environments, before production.

In concept, this is just what electronics digital twins (eDTs) are meant to achieve — enabling electronic control units (ECUs), vehicle software, and full electrical and electronic systems (known as E/E architecture) to be tested and validated earlier in the development cycle. In addition to accelerating and optimizing validation processes, eDTs free up physical testbenches and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) systems for critical, late-stage issues.

The potential is compelling: Lower costs, faster time-to-market, more dependable delivery of higher quality software, all powering more innovation.

But adapting to this new technological paradigm is no simple feat of engineering — you might say it’s a bit like rebuilding the car while still driving down the road.