Simulation & Design Tools

Products, Materials + Tools | Sep 30, 2010
ON Semiconductor Launches GreenPoint® Interactive Online Design Simulation Tool
ON Semiconductor Launches GreenPoint® Interactive Online Design Simulation Tool ON Semiconductor, a premier supplier of high performance, energy efficient silicon solutions for green electronics, together with Transim Technology, the leading provider of online design solutions for the semiconductor industry, today launched its interactive GreenPoint® online design simulation tool for high-efficiency LED based lighting applications. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Oct 15, 2010
The Right Lens is a Mouse Click Away
The Right Lens is a Mouse Click Away ‘LED Light for you’, the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors network that focuses on LEDs and their applications, now offers a new service in the form of an Optical Selection Tool. This is a database containing 350 different lens types from seven of the world’s largest lens manufacturers. It provides comprehensive information so the right lenses can be selected for each particular application. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 01, 2010
New Optical Design Software Released by Optical Engineering Firm Breault Research; ASAP 2010 V1R1 Now Available
New Optical Design Software Released by Optical Engineering Firm Breault Research; ASAP 2010 V1R1 Now Available Breault Research Organization (BRO), the global provider of virtual prototyping software and optical engineering services, has released a new version of the company's Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP®). The ASAP 2010 V1R1 release includes new features and enhancements to the program well known to the optics industry as the most sophisticated tool available for virtual prototyping of optical systems and devices. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 25, 2011
Future Facilities' Thermal Simulation Software Solves Cooling Problems
Future Facilities' Thermal Simulation Software Solves Cooling Problems Future Facilities, the leading provider of thermal simulation software for critical facilities and electronics components, has released a case study showing that its new CFD software for electronics cooling design, 6SigmaET solves the problem of how to shrink electronics devices that generate heat. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 15, 2011
New Software Forms Foundation for CAD-Integrated Optical Design Software
New Software Forms Foundation for CAD-Integrated Optical Design Software Breault Research Organization (BRO) has released an updated version of the company's APEX® optical engineering software. Now available to new and existing customers with current software maintenance agreements, APEX 2010 V2R1 represents a leap forward in CAD-integrated optical software architecture. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jun 06, 2011
ENCELIUM Introduces POLARIS 3D™ at LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL 2011
ENCELIUM Introduces POLARIS 3D™ at LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL 2011 TEANECK, N.J., Encelium Technologies, an innovative leader in energy management and lighting control systems, has introduced Polaris 3D, its next generation of lighting control software for the Energy Control System™. As the first software application of its kind in the lighting control industry, Encelium elected to unveil this ground-breaking technology at Lightfair International 2011, held in Philadelphia this spring. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Aug 01, 2011
Synopsys’ LightTools Delivers Leading-Edge Illumination Analysis
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of enhancements to its LightTools(r) illumination design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA(r)). LightTools 7.2 delivers features that will help users graphically analyse simulation results, compute important metrics when designing for the lighting industry, iteratively design with CAD software and improve the efficiency of luminaire and solar designs. These capabilities enable lighting designers to more easily explore design alternatives, study light behavior and improve product quality early in the design process. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Jul 19, 2012
Lambda Research Corporation Announces the Release of TracePro 7.2
TracePro 7.2 is the latest release of Lambda¡¦s award-winning illumination and optical analysis software. This release features the first fully interactive 3D optimizer specifically designed to increase productivity by giving the user complete control of the optimization process. The new 3D optimizer features a sketch utility to quickly create any 3D symmetric or asymmetric CAD geometry, interactive ray tracing for design verification, and digitization of target functions. This new optimizer drastically reduces design time, increases productivity, while at the same time giving the user complete control of the optimization process. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Oct 03, 2012
Breault Research Organization (BRO) Releases APEX 2012 V1R1 - Now Available as Optical Software Add-In for SolidWorks
Breault Research Organization (BRO), the global provider of virtual prototyping software and optical engineering services, is pleased to announce the release of APEX 2012 V1R1. New features and enhancements in APEX 2012 include the transition of the program to a SolidWorks add-in; new ray tracing options, visualizations, and capabilities; powerful enhancements for stray light analysis; and new photometric data import and export options. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 19, 2013
Power Integrations’ New PI Expert Suite 9.0 Power Supply Design Software Supports LED Lighting
Power Integrations’ New PI Expert Suite 9.0 Power Supply Design Software Supports LED Lighting Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced that the latest version of its popular power supply design software, PI Expert Suite 9.0, now includes support for its LinkSwitch™-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ICs and its recently introduced TinySwitch™-4 off-line switcher IC family. Version 9.0 includes an enhanced schematics-manipulation tool. It also enables designers to upload the resulting BOM from the auto-generated schematic layout to selected, leading design-fulfillment distributors. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Aug 12, 2013
Altium Takes Native 3D PCB To a New Level of ECAD and MCAD Integration
Altium Takes Native 3D PCB To a New Level of ECAD and MCAD Integration Altium Limited, a global leader in Smart System Design Automation and provider of advanced 3D PCB design solutions (Altium Designer) and embedded software development (TASKING), has partnered with Desktop EDA to provide designers with advanced ECAD and MCAD integration. The new addon application, Desktop EDA Solidworks Modeler and the IDF Modelers, is currently available for Altium Designer. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Nov 21, 2013
Mentor Graphics Next-Generation FloTHERM Product Delivers Enhanced Performance and Extended Functionality
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its next-generation FloTHERM® product featuring a new native Windows graphical user interface (GUI) to handle pre-processing and large models with ease, targeting today’s most advanced electronic designs. The latest release continues the product line’s 25 year history of technical product innovation and was developed based on extensive user feedback. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 26, 2014
Lambda Research Adds Improved Photorealistic Rendering Capability To TracePro
Lambda Research Adds Improved Photorealistic Rendering Capability To TracePro Lambda Research Corporation, the leading designer and publisher of illumination and optical design software, introduces improved photorealistic rendering with the latest release of its flagship product, TracePro®. The photorealistic rendering capability uses photon mapping to render scenes, sources, lightpipes, and instrument panels. Render high-fidelity photorealistic images showing the lit appearance of optical and illumination systems, and their affected surroundings. Read more »
Products, Materials + Tools | Mar 21, 2014
Altium Partners with Octopart in Developer Program to Improve Features of Altium Designer
Altium Partners with Octopart in Developer Program to Improve Features of Altium Designer Altium Limited, a global leader in Smart System Design Automation, 3D PCB design (Altium Designer) and embedded software development (TASKING), announces a third party developer partnership with Octopart, a well known provider of an electronic parts search engine used by hundreds of thousands of engineers to find and compare parts across different manufacturers and distributors. Read more »
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