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CST Studio Suite 2015 SP4 UpdateComputer Simulation Technology AG (CST) has released an update for 2015 version of its flagship electromagnetic simulation software CST STUDIO SUITE, a package of tools for designing, simulating and optimizing electromagnetic systems, and is used in leading technology and engineering companies around the world. The three pillars of CST’s products are accuracy, speed and usability. CST STUDIO SUITE is used by engineers and researchers working across the electromagnetic spectrum to model systems and optimize designs. Its tightly-integrated solvers cover a broad range of frequencies and geometrical scales, and are complemented by more specialized technology for applications such as PCBs, cables, thermal analysis, and charged particle devices. As devices become more compact and more connected, the...

CST Studio Suite 2015 SP4 UpdateComputer Simulation Technology AG (CST) has released an update for 2015 version of its flagship electromagnetic simulation software CST STUDIO SUITE, a package of tools for designing, simulating and optimizing electromagnetic systems, and is used in leading technology and engineering companies around the world. The three pillars of CST’s products are accuracy, speed and usability. CST STUDIO SUITE is used by engineers and researchers working across the electromagnetic spectrum to model systems and optimize designs. Its tightly-integrated solvers cover a broad range of frequencies and geometrical scales, and are complemented by more specialized technology for applications such as PCBs, cables, thermal analysis, and charged particle devices. As devices become more compact and more connected, the...

VeriStand is a software environment for configuring real-time testing applications. Out of the box, VeriStand helps you configure a multicore-ready real-time engine to execute tasks such as real-time stimulus generation, data acquisition for high-speed and conditioned measurements, and calculated channels and custom channel scaling. VeriStand can also import control algorithms, simulation models, and other tasks from LabVIEW software and third-party environments. You can monitor and interact with these tasks using a run-time editable user interface that includes tools for value forcing, alarm monitoring, I/O calibration, and stimulus profile editing. Although no programming knowledge is required to use VeriStand, you can customize and extend it with a variety of software environments such as LabVIEW, ANSI C/C++, and others for modeling and...

Zuken CADSTAR v16.0CADSTAR: Price/performance single-board designCADSTAR is a complete design environment for PCB design – from initial concept through to product realization. With a unified suite of applications, engineers can seamlessly define, visualize, implement and verify their designs. Optimized for the typical small and mid-sized design team, it also appeals to individual all-rounders and corporations operating across multiple sites.Design engineers need the flexibility to design at the symbol, part, block or sheet level for maximum speed and productivity. CADSTAR’s ability to create mixed hierarchical and multi-sheet schematics helps organize even the most complex designs; while the connective database automatically maintains net intelligence and design constraints throughout the tool flow. Layout professionals Layout professionals demands a toolset that supports their creativity...

Antenna Magus Professional 5.4.0New antennas added to the database:Waveguide-fed Sinusoidal-profiled (Bowl) corrugated conical horn antenna [MAGUS-15268]Waveguide-fed Gaussian-profiled corrugated conical horn antenna [MAGUS-14711]Conical corrugated horn antenna with various profiles (Linear, Exponential etc.) [MAGUS-15220]Profiled smooth-walled horn antenna [MAGUS-15218]Profiled smooth-walled horn antenna with a dielectric lining [MAGUS-15219]Pyramidal horn antenna with a piecewise linear spline profile [MAGUS-15423]Cornucopia horn-reflector antenna [MAGUS-14416]Circular pin-fed, circularly polarised patch antenna with stubs [MAGUS-14625]2-by-2 pin-fed microstrip patch array with feed on the underside of the groundplane [MAGUS-15117]Wire helix antenna with linear-taper at feed- and end- points [MAGUS-15134]Wire helix antenna with a conical reflector [MAGUS-15327]Feature extensions and improvements:In the Export mode, all variables may be scaled by a scaling factor before export. Where the frequency required is too high or low...

Synopsys.FineSim.2015.06.LinuxMulti-Core/Multi-Machine Enabled Full-Chip Circuit-Level Simulation OverviewFineSim™ is a high-performance circuit simulator with built-in full SPICE and FastSPICE simulation engines. FineSim\’s unique multi-core/multi-machine simulation capability allows users to drastically improve simulation performance and capacity. FineSim is well-suited for simulation of large, complex analog circuits, as well as DRAM/SRAM/Flash memory design. IntroductionTypically, analog and digital blocks are verified independently with different simulation technology that varies in accuracy. When analog and digital blocks are combined in one simulation, due to capacity limitations of traditional simulators, verifying them together usually requires some additional modeling techniques that only approximate circuit behavior. In some cases, this can introduce false design errors causing engineers to spend a significant amount of time searching for the root cause. As...

NI equips engineers and scientists to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world. For nearly 40 years, NI has worked with engineers and scientists to provide answers to the most challenging questions. Through these pursuits, NI customers have brought hundreds of thousands of products to market, overcome innumerable technological roadblocks, and engineered a better life for us all. From the inception of an idea to the commercialization of a widget, NI’s unique platform-based approach to engineering and science applications has driven progress across a wide variety of industries. Central to this approach is LabVIEW, a development environment designed specifically to accelerate the productivity of engineers and scientists. With a graphical programming syntax that makes it simple to visualize, create,...

Cadence SPB OrCAD 16.60.054 Hotfix Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announce hotfix version 013 for 16.60 release. This update includes some critical bug fixes. Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, launched the Cadence OrCAD 16.6 design solution with new features, enhanced customization capabilities, and 20 percent simulation performance improvements that provide customers a shorter, more predictable path to product creation. This latest release offers numerous improvements to tool usability and performance, but at the heart of 16.6 are three key benefits: enhanced miniaturization capabilities, timing-aware physical implementation and verification for faster timing closure, and the industry’s first electrical CAD team collaboration environment for PCB design using Microsoft SharePoint technology. A hot fix is a software maintenance...

Mentor Graphics HyperLynx v9.2 Update1HyperLynx® offers a complete suite of analysis and verification software that meets the needs of PCB engineers at any point in the board design flow. Easy to use and integrate into your flow, HyperLynx equips PCB engineers to efficiently analyze, solve and verify critical requirements to avoid costly re-spins. Achieve greater innovation, faster time-to-market and decreased costs with HyperLynx.HyperLynx® Signal Integrity (SI) generates fast, easy and accurate signal integrity analysis in PCB systems design. HyperLynx SI helps engineers efficiently manage rule exploration, definition and validation, ensuring that engineering intent is fully achieved. The software is tightly integrated from schematic design through final layout verification. It can quickly and accurately resolve typical high-speed design effects including over/undershoot,...

MentorGraphics Flo-THERM-PSB-VENT Suite 11.0 Win32/64FloTHERM 11.0 build 15.25.5FloVENT 11.0 build 15.25.5FloMCAD Bridge 11.0 build 15.25.5FloVIZ 11.0 build 15.25.5FloTHERM PCB 8.0FloTHERM uses advanced CFD techniques to predict airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in components, boards, and complete systems, including racks and data centers. It\’s also the industry\’s best solution for integration with MCAD and EDA software. FloTHERM is the undisputed world leader for electronics thermal analysis, with a 98 percent user recommendation rating. It supports more users, application examples, libraries and published technical papers than any competing product.FloTHERM integrates with popular MCAD and EDA tools. Its XML import capability simplifies building and solving models, post-processing results automatically. FloTHERM\’s automatic sequential optimization and DoE capabilities reduces the time it takes to reach...