Computer-aided designs, such as this model of a fingertip-sized heart pump, can reduce the number of physical prototypes that must be made. Computer-aided design (CAD) is a tool intended to facilitate ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

There’s nothing new about testing and analyzing product prototypes virtually. Finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), collectively CAE, have been around for years.

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools.

Luminary provides cloud access to massively parallel processing to enable faster, more accurate computational simulations. Credit: Luminary Cloud A U.S. startup promising to drastically cut the time ...

After radically transforming the world of design and production in sectors such as automotive and aerospace, robotics is now entering the construction sector. That is why École des Ponts ParisTech, a ...

Digital systems and technology such as computers, cell phones, and digital cameras have revolutionized our lives. Get ready to design and build the computer hardware and software of tomorrow, ...

TeraPlace integrates a global router, static timing analyzer, 2 1/2-based RC extractor, AWE delay calculator, and ECO capability, into a timing-driven placement flow. Its core engine is a CLK CAD’s ...