Siemens and CEA-List collaborate to advance digital twin technology

Siemens Digital Industries Software and CEA-List, a technological research institute specialising in smart digital systems research, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on research to further extend and enhance digital twin capabilities with artificial intelligence (AI), as well as to explore greater integration of embedded software on both virtual and hybrid platforms.

Using digital twin technologies, the research cooperation will bring together Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio and CEA-List’s toolset to assist in breaking down boundaries across electronics design, software development, and mechanical engineering disciplines. This is expected to assist customers in minimising the time and cost of verification and validation, as well as promote improvements in product quality and speed time to market across the whole lifespan of an electronics system, from architectural exploration to design and development. Along with this, the research will expand its scope of digital twin technologies for autonomous driving, smart robotics and health domains.

“With the significant increase in the electronics and software content of products and systems, there is an obvious need for multidomain, multi-fidelity system simulation solutions to alleviate multiple design and verification challenges.” “We share a vision with CEA of an even more comprehensive digital twin, and we believe we can realise that vision through the power of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, which covers everything from Electronic Design Automation software and hardware tools to system, sensors, and multiphysics simulation software,” says Jean-Marie Brunet, vice president and general manager of Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Hardware-Assisted Verification Division.

“At CEA-List, we are thrilled to be collaborating with Siemens, who share our belief in the importance of a more holistic digital twin.” “CEA-List will bring its expertise in immersive and functional digital twin platforms (XDE and Papyrus), artificial intelligence, and code verification,” adds Alexandre Bounouh, CEO of CEA-List. “We believe that the Siemens and CEA-List digital twin research roadmap can offer best-in-class tools for generating rapid immersive and functional digital twins enhanced with artificial intelligence.”