The solution aims to empower automotive manufacturers and suppliers to speed the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) with early full-system, virtual integration that mirrors real vehicle hardware and accelerates both application and low-level software development for ADAS, AD and IVI. This removes the need for customers to build their own digital twins before testing software and significantly reducing time to market for critical applications – from months to days.
With vehicle hardware and software complexity rising at an unprecedented rate, development teams face mounting pressure to deliver innovation faster and compete with new market entrants while meeting increasingly sophisticated consumer expectations. Traditional development methodologies are no longer sufficient to manage system-level interdependencies between ADAS, AD and IVI functions – a new approach is required.
Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO at Siemens Digital Industries Software, commented: “The automotive industry is at the forefront of the software-defined everything revolution and Siemens is delivering the digital twin technologies needed to move beyond incremental innovation and embrace a holistic, software-defined approach to product development.” He added: “PAVE360 Automotive will empower automotive companies to innovate with confidence, agility and scale, to realize the full potential of the SDVs and set the standard for what’s possible across all industries.”
A virtual blueprint for digital twin development
PAVE360 Automotive leverages Siemens’ expertise in digital twin technology empowers automakers to:
- Jumpstart vehicle systems development from the earliest phases with ADAS, AD and IVI customizable virtual reference designs;
- unify development, optimize efficiency and increase cloud-based collaboration with a single digital twin for all teams;
- customize and scale by adding software, models and external hardware as needed;
- speed up software development leveraging hardware-like simulation speed of the latest automotive IP, including the new Arm® Zena Compute Subsystem (CSS); and
- validate with real-world feedback by connecting digital twins to physical hardware and testing in real vehicles.
System-level digital twins for SDVs using existing technologies can be complex and time consuming to create and validate. To solve this bottleneck, PAVE360 Automotive delivers a fully integrated, system-level digital twin that can be deployed on day one – reducing the time, effort and cost required to build such environments from scratch.
The aolution leverages the company’s Innexis software environment combined with supporting technologies to empower users to create system-level digital twins of ADAS, AD and IVI capabilities. Siemens’ PAVE360 Automotive is available to key customers, with general availability in February 2026.
