SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) introduced its new 2D and 3D design and engineering software lineup for manufacturers of all sizes seeking to digitally design, ...

Virtual prototypes and hardware design: More powerful and complex integrated circuits and System-on-Chip (SoC) designers have a daunting task at both the hardware and software level. SoC architects ...

Traditional ASIC and IP verification methods cannot adequately exercise the hardware and software components of today's designs. This is due to tool performance limitations, which impose a bottleneck ...

Virtual prototyping involves using various technologies—from computer-aided design software to simulation tools—to create highly detailed prototypes before making the physical versions. Car ...

I just returned from a very stress-free business trip (an oxymoron!) to A.T. Ferrell Co. Inc. in Bluffton, Ind. There was only three of us in the small commuter jet traveling to the Ft. Wayne airport, ...

The PZFlex 2.1 3D virtual-prototyping software is now available in two versions: PZFlex Professional and PZFlex Standard. Finding favor with industrial designers and academic researchers, the ...

An overview of the fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and its importance in aerospace component design. A look at how FEA software enables aerospace engineers to simulate the results of ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The SoC design world is full of challenges and unforeseeable hurdles, especially for protocol developers and early ...

ShapesXR (2021), the 3D and XR prototyping platform, just got a new animation feature that allows design teams to make their XR prototypes even more expressive and lifelike. The studio says the new ...

Abstract: Prototypes are complex and dynamic artifacts that shape social situations during product development. A ten-month applied ethnographic study of a footwear company recounts prototypes’ ...

FPGAs continue to march to the tune of Moore's Law with new devices appearing at approximately 2-year intervals. Today, 65 nm FPGAs are available with capacities equivalent to 2M ASIC gates. At these ...