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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Streamline simulation: The benefits over real-world testing
Simulation technology is increasingly being utilised within the automotive space, saving time, money and allowing for simulated repeats of real-world scenarios again and again. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a company specialising in high-performance and adaptive computing solutions has recently adopted rFpro's simulation platform to develop automated driving technologies. The platform named AV elevate, enables AMD to reduce its dependency on real-world data collection and testing and will reduce development time and cost. We spoke with Matt Daley, director, rFpro, to learn more about the use of simulation technology, and to highlight its importance within the automotive industry. Just Auto (JA): Could you discuss AMD's use of your company's software and what the goals are? Matt Daley (MD): AMD specifically came to see us at one of our industry events. We were showing off our autonomous sensors and how those integrate into our very high-fidelity 3D worlds and doing this on a very high performance simulation system. We came across their automotive leadership team that were there and they were impressed with what we were doing. It very quickly led to connecting with our American team. We have a base over in Michigan - we've got a few developers and a sales team in Michigan – so it was easy for the AMD leadership team to connect with them. We started to explore how the simulation platforms can be set up quickly and efficiently in order to replace real-world testing – which comes with limitations. They're really keen to show that their innovations, such as parking system developments, their 3D surround vision of car can be demonstrated without having to rely on real world tests. It avoids finding a place to set up real-world tests and they can do it in their lab. More importantly, they can do it quickly, and iterate their designs rapidly. For someone like AMD, they are entering this as a platform supplier. They are not in business to sell you a camera, or to sell you one part. It's important for them that the entire ADAS and autonomous stack, from sensing through to perception, control, action and all of those phases that you need to do are available in the simulation. Also, they want the flexibility to do both - real-time and simulation - so that they can bring their physical hardware. You have that whole flexibility to test any part of this autonomous stack. Is it the sensors you're testing? Your perception system in the middle? Your control system that's guiding the car? Is it reversing or moving into the space? What does that feel like to the passenger inside? That's obviously a massive attraction of rFpro and our flexibility that we can use a single virtual world, and a single simulation platform like 'AV elevate' and let our customers explore all of them together, or each of them independently – up to them. I think AMD were just really impressed with its flexibility, and it's the speed with which they went from seeing the solution, trying it out, to proof of concept and then having a full demonstration ready to take to Las Vegas (in January). This came about in just six months, which in the automotive industry is unheard of. As technology develops within the automotive industry, has that posed any challenges for rFpro and its capabilities? only launched AV elevate, a dedicated product, last year. It was developed over seven years, which illustrates the time and investment required for something like this. There were some big challenges to separate it from classical driver-in-the-loop simulation. In driver-in-the-loop simulation, you obviously have to have everything in real-time, because things won't wait. You as a human will react exactly to what you see in front of you. For our sensing industry, we actually need to synchronize everything and ensure that all of the software stays in sync, because some of the testing needed isn't just real-time based. One of the big challenges we had initially was to look at having both our real-time product for humans and hardware, and having what we call our synchro step, our synchronous product for software-in-the-loop testing. So that was a first thing that we realised; that we need to have a common virtual world, and a common set of interfaces for people to connect, but also that we need to allow them flexible deployment in terms of: are you operating it with humans in real-time, or are you operating it in high fidelity, in synchronous mode? You have different challenges in each of those things, and we have had to adapt and build new technologies into our digital worlds, so that they could be viewed by different types of sensors and can be used for training and producing high quality training data. We've had challenges in our scenarios and our interfacing. We've had to not just think about a driver in a seat and a steering wheel, but think about, how do we bring in lots and lots of actors into the scene at the same time, and in a flexible way for different systems. Another massive area is sensor models, really changing the way that the simulation looks at the world, not just from human eyes, but looking at it from the electronic eye's sense of view. Is it a camera? Is it a LiDAR? Is it a radar? Then building individual simulation results based on the physics of those sensors. How important is simulation technology for the industry? We've been creating rFpro products for the autonomous industry for many years. When we started, we were about a highly successful driver-in-the-loop simulation system. So it became: how do we try and adapt this for machine vision, rather than just human vision? That whole philosophy is of trying to reuse industry leading simulation and all the investments we'd made, but applying it now to this very important, safety critical industry like ADAS and autonomous driving. We've been creating rFpro products for the autonomous industry for many years. We had been in a very good position for a long time in terms of having a good base, a lot of customers that are very used to using simulation, and how they use it to improve their development process. If you are no longer relying on real-world testing, then you don't have enough time or money to drive everything in the real-world. It's essential that you're able to adopt simulation into your development process to really make that move forward. I often talk about it as how you make a movie. You need to have a whole set of actors and locations that you're working in. So that's the digital content, and we've got to build very specific things around that. You need a range of flexible scenarios, so there are movement opportunities to move the actors around – and of course the script that you're going to give them. Then you need all of the filming equipment, so you need all of these sensor models that are very specific to what you need to do. It's a lot of moving parts to bring together. What goals has the company set out for 2025? In terms of AV elevate, it is still fairly new to the market. We've just got our first customers up and using it. I think the goal is to start showing more and more use cases where this single AV elevate simulation platform can be used to do multiple use cases. We will continue to work with AMD to not only promote what they're doing in this use case, but to show it off with other people, maybe on the training data side. This is very much on the testing side. We always talk about the different applications into three main buckets of tuning systems, training autonomous systems, and then testing the full stack. I think this is very much the tuning and the training, so they've got a system that they're looking at adapting it a little bit, and then they're testing how their driving algorithms are working. I think for us, there's a massive part of training. Using the synthetic data for training up the perception systems that we've been targeting for a long time, and we've got several different projects going on in there. If we can find some big successes this year that allow us to publicly talk about the verified success of using the synthetic training data to do the training part of the perception system as well, then that's a major goal for us as a company. "Streamline simulation: The benefits over real-world testing" was originally created and published by Just Auto, a GlobalData owned brand. 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Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Ansys
Creating the Leader in Engineering Solutions from Silicon to Systems News Highlights: SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 17, 2025 /CNW/ -- Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Ansys. The transaction, which was announced on January 16, 2024, combines leaders in silicon design, IP and simulation and analysis to enable customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. Synopsys is now positioned to win in an expanded $31 billion total addressable market (TAM). 1
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
What to Expect From ANSYS' Q2 2025 Earnings Report
Valued at a market cap of $32.9 billion, ANSYS, Inc. (ANSS) is a leading provider of engineering simulation software used to design and test products across industries such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and electronics. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the company delivers advanced, physics-based simulation solutions that help drive innovation, improve product performance, and reduce development costs. ANSYS is expected to unveil its Q2 2025 earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, Jul. 30. Ahead of this event, analysts expect ANSYS to report adjusted earnings of $1.96 per share, reflecting a growth of 3.7% from $1.89 per share reported in the same quarter last year. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in three of the past four quarters while missing on another occasion. More News from Barchart Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Earns $93,150 Every Hour from Coca-Cola Dividends Alone OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Calls DeepSeek's Bluff: 'I Don't Think They Figured Out Something Way More Efficient' These Are the Highest Yielding Dividend Aristocrats Today (Entire List) Get exclusive insights with the FREE Barchart Brief newsletter. Subscribe now for quick, incisive midday market analysis you won't find anywhere else. For fiscal 2025, analysts project ANSYS to deliver an adjusted earnings per share of $8.26, in line with its fiscal 2024 performance. ANSS stock has surged 13.3% over the past 52 weeks, lagging behind the S&P 500 Index's ($SPX) 13.6% gain and the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund's (XLK) 16.3% return during the same period. On April 30, shares of ANSYS declined marginally after the company posted mixed results for Q1 2025. Its revenue for the quarter grew 8.2% year-over-year to $504.9 million but fell short of Wall Street expectations. Similarly, adjusted earnings rose 18% to $1.64 per share, yet still came in below analyst forecasts. Analysts' consensus view on ANSS is cautious, with an overall "Hold" rating. Among 10 analysts covering the stock, nine recommend a "Moderate Buy,' and one gives a 'Strong Sell' rating. The stock currently trades above its mean price target of $359.88. On the date of publication, Kritika Sarmah did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. This article was originally published on Sign in to access your portfolio
Forbes
5 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Synopsys Ansys Acquisition Enables Leading Simulation Enhanced Design
Synopsys President and CEO Sassine Ghazi After a long 18 months of negotiations and regulatory scrutiny, Synopsys has finalized its approximate $35 billion acquisition of Ansys. This acquisition merges two leading companies in their respective markets to create a single, end-to-end engineering, design and simulation platform that spans from silicon to full systems. Initially announced in January 2024 and finalized on July 17, 2025, the deal combines Synopsys' leadership in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP with Ansys' advanced capabilities in multi-physics simulation and analysis. The acquisition was cleared by regulators across the U.S., EU, UK, and China, and unites two complementary portfolios, but also addresses the fundamental need for deeper integration between electronics and physics at every stage of product development — from the transistor level to complete systems. Simulation Is Paramount In The Design Of Complex System Synopsys and Ansys have been partnered for a number of years, but the combined entity will allow for much deeper IP sharing and ultimately a unification of their software and tool stacks. By integrating Ansys' multi-physics engines within its EDA toolset, Synopsys can enable concurrent, simulation-driven co-design across silicon, PCB, packaging, and full system-level architecture, to improve outcomes and speed time to market. This deep, expansive level of integration is particularly critical in areas like chiplet-based design, AI accelerators, 5G infrastructure, and automotive platforms (among others), where the interaction between hardware, software, and environmental conditions determines a product's viability and performance. With digital simulations happening earlier and more often through various design phases, companies can now virtually optimize performance, power, area and reliability before a single chip design is taped out or a first system prototype is built. Scale And Potential Market Expansion The combined entity will cater to a significantly larger addressable market — estimated at $31 billion — spanning core EDA, IP, and multi-physics simulation. Financial analysts have responded favorably to the deal, pointing to long-term revenue synergies and improved operational leverage. Several investment firms have upgraded Synopsys' outlook, citing the company's unique position in the industry to address a broader scope of design, simulation and analysis. The move also solidifies Synopsys's competitive position against competitors like Cadence and Siemens EDA. Synopsys Has Finalized Its Acquisition Of Ansys Integration Strategy And Customer Engagement Synopsys has outlined a methodical integration roadmap, aiming to preserve customer experience while also delivering better value. The company reaffirmed support for Ansys' existing customer platform and pledged to maintain product interoperability across both ecosystems. Early integration efforts are focused on embedding multi-physics capabilities into Synopsys' chip design and verification tools, as well as enabling co-simulation for advanced 2.5D and 3D multi-die systems. In a discussion with Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Chief Product Development Officer at Synopsys, to better understand the impact and goals of the acquisition, I was told that initial joint solutions are expected to roll out sometime in the first half of 2026. These will target critical use cases where electrical, mechanical, and thermal challenges intersect, like heterogeneous integration, power-aware verification, and real-time system-level analysis for mission-critical applications. In the immediate short term, however, the deal allows for deeper IP sharing, which will enable the company and its customers to rethink design processes and flows, to improve final outcomes and speed time-to-market. While the acquisition makes perfect sense, considering the obvious synergies between the companies, execution will be key. Integrating two engineering-centric cultures and complex product portfolios is never easy. However, Synopsys' history of successful acquisitions and the historic, on-going collaboration and partnership with Ansys bodes well for a smooth transition. An Expansive Design And Simulation Platform For The AI Era As devices become more complex and development cycles get even shorter, traditional handoffs between disciplines are no longer sufficient. Synopsys, with Ansys' technology in its portfolio, is now better positioned to deliver simulation-centric design workflows that scale from the transistor level all the way to full system deployment. Ultimately, this acquisition is about enabling the next generation of intelligent systems — not just faster chips, but smarter, safer, and more efficient products across industries. From edge devices and electric vehicles to aerospace and digital twins, the Synopsys-Ansys combination will provide a unified platform that empowers engineers to simulate the real world as part of the design process, which is key to accelerate time to market with optimal final outcomes, at a time when human engineering resources are slim.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
📸 Official: EA SPORTS unveil the FC 26 cover
On Wednesday afternoon, Electronic Arts officially revealed the cover of its new football simulation EA FC 26 (Standard Edition). Jude Bellingham is the face of the game for the second consecutive year. He is joined on the cover by his friend and former teammate Jamal Musiala. Advertisement The game's trailer will be revealed on Wednesday evening. Jude Bellingham and Jamal Musiala, destinies intertwined... This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.
