Siemens’ new PAVE360 Automotive drives next-generation vehicle development with real-world validation.
Siemens, a leading industrial technology company, recently unveiled its PAVE360™ Automotive technology, a new category of digital twin software that is pre-integrated and designed as an off-the-shelf offering to address the escalating complexity of automotive hardware and software integration.
The Shift Toward Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs)
PAVE360 Automotive empowers automotive manufacturers and suppliers to speed the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) with early full-system, virtual integration that mirrors real vehicle hardware. This breakthrough technology accelerates both application and low-level software development for ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), AD (Autonomous Driving), and IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment).
This removes the need for customers to build their own digital twins before testing software and significantly reduces time to market for critical applications—shrinking timelines from months to days.
Addressing Complexity in Automotive Hardware and Software Integration
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.
“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,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “PAVE360 Automotive will empower automotive companies to innovate with confidence, agility and scale, to realise the full potential of the SDVs and set the standard for what’s possible across all industries.”
PAVE360 Automotive: A Virtual Blueprint for Digital Twin Development
PAVE360 Automotive leverages Siemens’ expertise in digital twin technology to empower automakers to:
- Jumpstart vehicle systems development from the earliest phases with ADAS, AD, and IVI customizable virtual reference designs.
- Unify development and optimize efficiency, increasing 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).
- 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.
Strategic Integration: PAVE360 Automotive Using Arm Zena CSS
Following prior collaboration with Arm, which resulted in accelerated virtual environments for its Arm Cortex-A720AE in 2024 and Arm Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) in 2025, Siemens is now further integrating Arm Zena CSS with PAVE360 Automotive. This enables the industry to start building on Arm faster and more seamlessly than ever before. Access to Arm Zena CSS in a digital twin environment like PAVE360 Automotive accelerates the development of software by up to two years.
“As vehicles become increasingly AI-defined, automakers and silicon partners need new ways to manage rising complexity without slowing innovation,” said Suraj Gajendra, vice president of products and solutions, Physical AI Business Unit, Arm. “With Arm Zena CSS available inside Siemens’ pre-integrated PAVE360 Automotive environment, partners can not only customise their solutions leveraging the unique flexibility of the Arm architecture but also validate and iterate much earlier in the development cycle, helping them get to market sooner.”
Availability and Live Demonstration at CES 2026
PAVE360 leverages Siemens’ 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 and will be demonstrated live at CES 2026 in the Auto Hall, January 6–9, 2026.
References
1. https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/pave360/
2. https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/pave360/2025/12/18/what-to-expect-from-pave360-automotive-at-ces-2026/
4. https://registration.experientevent.com/showCES261/Wizard/Landing
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Strategic FAQs
1. What is the benefit of using a pre-integrated digital twin for automotive development?
A pre-integrated digital twin like PAVE360 Automotive allows developers to begin full-system testing on "day one." This eliminates the months-long process of building custom virtual environments, allowing for immediate validation of ADAS, AD, and IVI software.
2. How does Siemens PAVE360 support Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs)?
PAVE360 creates a virtual blueprint that mirrors real vehicle hardware. This "virtual integration" allows software teams to develop and iterate application-level and low-level software simultaneously, rather than waiting for physical prototypes.
3. What specific automotive systems can be tested with PAVE360?
The platform is specifically optimized for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Driving (AD), and In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems.
4. How does the Arm Zena CSS integration impact silicon development?
By integrating Arm Zena CSS into the PAVE360 environment, automakers can validate software on the latest Arm IP long before physical silicon is available, reducing risks and accelerating time to market.
5. When will Siemens PAVE360 Automotive be available?
The technology is currently available to key customers, with general availability scheduled for February 2026. A live demonstration will occur at CES 2026.
6. What is the Siemens Innexis™ software environment?
Innexis is the underlying software environment that powers PAVE360, enabling the creation of complex, system-level digital twins that unify various hardware and software models.
