Overview

Powering Smarter, Safer Automotive Innovation Virtual Prototyping

Automotive innovation is shifting from mechanical to digital. Siemens is driving this transformation with PAVE360, a virtual vehicle environment that enables automakers to design and validate software long before physical prototypes exist. Using Arm CSS architecture, Siemens accelerates realistic, system-level simulation. This reduces development time while helping automakers bring intelligent, AI-defined vehicles to market faster and more safely.

Impact
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Time to Market

  • Reducing development time by 12 months through real-time simulation
  • Perform high-fidelity system level virtual validation and test with real hardware before silicon
  • Faster innovation cycles and safer system testing
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Efficient AI

  • Software-Defined Vehicles
  • AI-Defined Vehicles
  • Automotive Compute
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Pervasive Architecture

  • Arm CSS Architecture
  • Cloud to edge
  • Simulating AI workloads across hardware and software
“High-fidelity simulation is essential for AI-defined vehicles. With Arm’s specifications, we can demonstrate functionality early, accelerating development and giving customers confidence their systems will perform as designed,”
David Fritz, Vice President, Hybrid and Virtual Systems for Automotive, Siemens EDA
Technologies Used

Accelerating Safe, Smart Vehicle Innovation

Automotive manufacturers face immense pressure to deliver safer, smarter, and more efficient vehicles in shorter design cycles. Traditional hardware-first workflows limit early software development and system testing. Without accurate simulation, validating AI behavior across multiple vehicle systems—from braking to perception—becomes slow, costly, and risky.

Bridging Hardware and Software

Siemens PAVE360 platform transforms automotive design by providing a high-fidelity, full-vehicle digital twin that can connect to real world stimulus and hardware for greater design confidence. Using Arm Compute Subsystem (CSS) architecture, Siemens enables realistic, architecture-native simulation of AI workloads across complex automotive systems. The partnership allows developers to start software integration and verification months before silicon availability, bridging hardware and software development through scalable, efficient compute. Together, Siemens and Arm empower OEMs to shift left, enhance safety validation, and deliver next-generation automotive intelligence faster.

Enabling Faster, Safer AI-Driven Mobility

Siemens and Arm are redefining how automakers innovate. An example being the recently launched PAVE360 Automotive, which offers a new concept, an off-the-shelf system level digital twin with reference software and IVI and ADAS ECU models based on Arm® Zena™ CSS, providing all you need to deploy your digital twin on day one. With PAVE360 powered by Arm CSS, development teams can validate entire vehicle systems virtually, achieving near real-time performance and significant reductions in design cycle time. This shift from reactive to proactive engineering is enabling safer, AI-driven mobility across global markets.

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