Synopsys has announced a major acceleration in chip design by integrating its electronic design automation (EDA) tools with NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell platform, achieving projected speedups of up to 30x for semiconductor development.

At GTC 2025, Synopsys unveiled enhancements to its EDA suite by leveraging NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Key improvements include:

- Circuit simulation: Synopsys PrimeSim achieves up to a 30x performance boost on NVIDIA's Blackwell platform, reducing simulation times from days to hours.
- Computational lithography: Synopsys Proteus, optimized with NVIDIA's cuLitho library, delivers up to 20x faster processing for manufacturing simulations.
- TCAD simulation: The Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD tool is projected to speed up time-to-results by 10x using NVIDIA GPUs.
- Materials engineering: Synopsys QuantumATK, accelerated with CUDA-X libraries, sees up to 100x performance improvements for semiconductor research.

In addition to computational advancements, Synopsys is integrating NVIDIA NIM inference microservices into its AI-powered Synopsys.ai Copilot, doubling productivity for engineers using generative AI in chip design.

The company is also optimizing more than 15 Synopsys EDA solutions for NVIDIA’s Grace CPU architecture, expanding its AI and accelerated computing capabilities in 2025.

With these innovations, Synopsys continues to push the boundaries of semiconductor design, significantly reducing development time and enhancing AI-driven workflows.