India based technology and design services expert Tata Elxsi and semiconductor chip design software leader Synopsys signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the SNUG India 2025 event in Bengaluru to collaborate on advanced automotive virtualization solutions. The partnership focuses on delivering pre-verified, integrated solutions and services for virtual electronic control units (vECUs), a key technology for software-defined vehicle development.
The collaboration combines Tata Elxsi’s expertise in embedded systems and integration with Synopsys’ virtualization solutions, used by over 50 global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. These solutions aim to simplify software development and testing, reduce costs, improve software quality, and mitigate risks in vehicle production timelines. The companies are already working with global customers on programs involving vECUs, software bring-up, board support package (BSP) integration, and early-stage software validation across vehicle domains like powertrain, chassis, body control, gateway, and central compute. These efforts enable simulation of real-world scenarios, early software validation, and reduced dependence on physical prototypes.
Additionally, Tata Elxsi and Synopsys plan to explore opportunities to scale electronics digital twins for multi-ECU and application-specific systems, further accelerating deployment in the automotive industry.
“Our partnership with Synopsys reflects a future-forward response to how vehicle development is evolving. As OEMs move away from traditional workflows, there is growing demand for engineering services that are tightly integrated with virtualization tools. This strategic collaboration enables us to jointly address that shift with focus, flexibility, and domain depth,” said Sundar Ganapathi, Chief Technology Officer of Automotive, Tata Elxsi.
“The automotive industry’s transformation to software-defined vehicles requires advanced virtualization capabilities from silicon to systems. Our leadership enabling automotive electronics digital twins, combined with Tata Elxsi’s engineering scale and practical experience operationalising automotive system design, will simplify the adoption of virtual ECUs and thereby accelerate software development and testing to improve quality and time to market,” said Marc Serughetti, Vice President, Synopsys Product Management & Markets Group.
