Pittsburgh-based Ansys, recently acquired by Synopsys, announced today that it will license, sell, and support Nvidia’s Omniverse technology embedded in its simulation solutions. The agreement accelerates physical AI development, enhances digital twin capabilities, and delivers immersive visualizations in a virtual environment, accelerating innovation across industries.

With the integration, Ansys will deliver easy access to Omniverse technologies and libraries for its customers, starting with its CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and autonomy solutions, deepening insights into aerodynamics and advancing autonomous vehicle safety and 6G connectivity.

“Product development processes are only getting more complex, so modern teams need a virtual environment that allows them to simulate, visualize, iterate, and collaborate,” said Walt Hearn, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Customer Excellence at Synopsys. “By integrating advanced Omniverse technologies and libraries, our customers drive innovation in simulation-led workflows, empowering teams to achieve greater efficiency, performance, and scalability.”

Ansys technology uses OpenUSD (Open Universal Scene Description), an open and extensible framework for describing, composing, and simulating 3D worlds developed by Pixar Animation Studios, to integrate with Omniverse technologies, enabling accessible, smooth workflows across diverse simulation applications. By leveraging Omniverse platform capabilities directly from the Ansys interface, teams are said to be able to innovate, tackle challenges, and achieve research breakthroughs faster.

The agreement ensures interoperability between diverse computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools, enabling a unified and efficient workflow critical to large CFD applications. Visualizing fluid dynamics in physically based digital environments enables engineers to analyze complex datasets more intuitively, resulting in smarter, faster design optimization for even the most challenging engineering tasks.

The integration also empowers engineers with high-fidelity outputs, making it easier to develop, train, test, and validate autonomous systems with greater speed and confidence. By automating scenario generation and exploration, it ensures these autonomous systems are continuously validated for safety, precision, efficiency, and reliability.

“To address the complexity of modern engineering challenges, industries require precise physical AI models, highly accurate digital twins, accessible high-resolution simulation tools, and physics-accurate virtual environments to solve real-world problems and enable reliable performance predictions,” said Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and simulation at Nvidia. “Combining the predictive power of Ansys solvers with Nvidia simulation technologies and libraries is a turning point for industries striving to simulate reality with precision.”

In addition, PyAnsys, a family of Python packages for organizing and structuring Python code, promoting reusability and maintainability, enables users to customize and automate simulations within their applications built on Omniverse. One example highlighting this joint work with Nvidia is PyAnsys-Heart, a digital twin of the human heart that unlocks transformative simulation insights through an intuitive speech-to-text interface requiring minimal engineering expertise.

The Nvidia deal is significant for Synopsys, after its Ansys acquisition was completed last month, combined leaders in silicon design, IP (intellectual property), and simulation and analysis to enable customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. With the acquisition, the Sunnyvale, CA-based company is now positioned to win in what it estimates to be an expanded $31 billion total addressable market.

“The increasing complexity of developing intelligent systems demands design solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, enhanced by AI,” said Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys. “With Ansys’ leading system simulation and analysis solutions now part of Synopsys, we can maximize the capabilities of engineering teams broadly, igniting their innovation from silicon to systems.”

Synopsys says it is dedicated to helping engineers innovate, reduce time-to-market and costs, and improve product quality by delivering insights into how products perform in the real world. With the addition of Ansys, the company can better deliver holistic system design solutions for customers in industries such as semiconductors, high-tech, automotive, aerospace, and industrial.

The company expects to deliver the first set of integrated capabilities in the first half of 2026 that fuse multiphysics across the full EDA (electronic design automation) stack, including for multi-die advanced packaging. The combined roadmap also includes integrated solutions to advance testing and virtualization of complex, intelligent systems for automotive and other industries.