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FEKO is a comprehensive electromagnetic simulation software tool, based on state of the art computational electromagnetics (CEM) techniques. It enables users to solve a wide range of electromagnetic problems. The multiple solution techniques available within FEKO make it applicable to a wide range of problems for a large array of industries. Typical applications include: Antennas: analysis of horns, microstrip patches, wire antennas, reflector antennas, conformal antennas, broadband antennas, arrays Antenna placement: analysis of antenna radiation patterns, radiation hazard zones, etc. with an antenna placed on a large structure, e.g. ship, aircraft, armoured car EMC: analysis of diverse EMC problems including shielding effectiveness of an enclosure, cable coupling analysis in complex environments, e.g. wiring in a car, radiation hazard analysis Bio-electromagnetics:...

Questa Advanced SimulatorQuesta\’s core simulation and debug engine The Questa® Advanced Simulator combines high performance and capacity simulation with unified advanced debug capabilities for the most complete native support of Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SystemC, PSL and UPF. The Questa Advanced Simulator is the core simulation and debug engine of the Questa Verification Platform; the comprehensive advanced verification platform capable of reducing the risk of validating complex FPGA and SoC designs.Advanced Debug with QuestaAdvanced Debug with Questa On-demand Web SeminarView Video Questa spans the levels of abstraction required for complex SoC and FPGA design and verification from TLM (Transaction Level Modeling) through RTL, gates, and transistors and has superior support of multiple verification methodologies including Assertion Based Verification (ABV), the Open...

ModelSimASIC and FPGA designView Detail Mentor Graphics was the first to combine single kernel simulator (SKS) technology with a unified debug environment for Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC. The combination of industry-leading, native SKS performance with the best integrated debug and analysis environment make ModelSim® the simulator of choice for both ASIC and FPGA designs. The best standards and platform support in the industry make it easy to adopt in the majority of process and tool flows. Advanced Code Coverage ModelSim’s advanced code coverage capabilities and ease of use lower the barriers for leveraging this valuable verification resource. The ModelSim advanced code coverage capabilities provide valuable metrics for systematic verification. All coverage information is stored in the Unified Coverage DataBase (UCDB),...

FloEFD is the ONLY computational fluid dynamics analysis tool that is truly embedded into major MCAD systems. These include Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, Siemens NX and SolidWorks; and tight integration with Inventor and SolidEdge. FloEFD is a full-featured 3D fluid flow, heat transfer analysis package that is both fast to learn and to use because it doesn’t come with the numerical complexity and meshing overheads of traditional high-end CFD. Easy-to-use CAD embedded Concurrent CFD For analysis to become an integral part of the design process, it must be easy to use and able to adapt readily to your design process. Developed for engineers, FloEFD turns CFD analysis into a plug-in for CAD. Because of its intuitive interface, FloEFD is extremely easy to...

Cadence OrCAD PCB design suites combine industry-leading, production-proven, and highly scalable PCB design applications to deliver complete schematic entry, simulation, and place-and-route solutions. With these powerful, intuitive tools that integrate seamlessly across the entire PCB design flow, engineers can quickly move products from conception to final output. To stay competitive in today’s market, companies must move their designs from engineering to manufacturing within ever-shrinking design schedules. Available as standalone products or in comprehensive suites, Cadence OrCAD personal productivity tools have a long history of addressing PCB design challenges, whether simple or complex. The powerful, tightly integrated PCB design technologies include OrCAD Capture for schematic design, various librarian tools, OrCAD PCB Editor for place and route, PSpice A/D for circuit simulation,...

Tessent combines features of deterministic scan testing, embedded pattern compression, built-in self test, specialized embedded memory test and repair, and boundary scan, as well as board and system-level test technologies. The Tessent product suite provides comprehensive silicon test and yield analysis solutions that address the challenges of manufacturing test, debug, and yield ramp for today’s SoCs. Built on the foundation of the best-in-class solutions for each test discipline, Tessent brings them together in a powerful test flow that ensures total chip coverage.Tessent® MemoryBIST provides a complete solution for at-speed testing, diagnosis, and repair of embedded memories. The solution’s architecture is hierarchical, allowing BIST and self-repair capabilities to be added to individual cores as well as at the top level. Tessent...

Calibre® is the only sign-off verification toolset that is integrated with the full range of design tools used throughout the design flow. Calibre provides robust and extensible interfaces to custom design, place and route (PNR), and a wide range of specialty design tools. These interfaces bring the power of Calibre’s sign-off engines to the designer throughout the design flow, enabling early detection and correction of manufacturing issues.Interface TypesStandard Invocation & Result Viewing Interfaces Calibre’s standard interfaces enable users to run verification on the layout and schematics within a design tool, and highlight the results back into the design tool. Calibre Interactive™ interfaces with the design tool to invoke batch Calibre, and once the interface is established, any appropriate Calibre flow—...

Circuit designSelectively automating non-critical aspects of custom IC design allows engineers to focus on precision-crafting their designs. Cadence circuit design solutions enable fast and accurate entry of design concepts, which includes managing design intent in a way that flows naturally in the schematic. Using this advanced, parasitic-aware environment, you can abstract and visualize the many interdependencies of an analog, RF, or mixed-signal design to understand and determine their effects on circuit performance. Virtuoso Schematic EditorProvides a complete design and constraint composition environment for front-to-back analog, custom-digital, RF, and mixed-signal designs.Designed to help users create manufacturing-robust designs, Cadence® Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment is the advanced design and simulation environment for the Virtuoso platform. It gives designers access to a new parasitic...

Implementing complex digital signal processing systems for consumer, infrastructure, medical, automotive and aerospace and defense companies is the key challenge for innovation, since most of the design time is spent on investigating the effects of individual implementation decisions on the performance of the entire system. Pure language based approaches (MATLAB algorithms or C/C++) fail at these challenges as they do not constrain the modeling approach enough to improve implementation and simulation productivity. Synopsys SPW provides a rapid path from innovation into implementation for digital signal processing systems. At its core is the C data flow (CDF) modeling paradigm which enables the most efficient description of digital signal processing algorithms which may be implemented in dedicated digital hardware or embedded software....

LabVIEW 2013 includes the following enhancements to event-driven programming and related functionality.Viewing Enqueued Events at Run Time In LabVIEW 2013, you can inspect the events waiting in an event queue associated with an Event structure. You also can view a list of VIs that contain Event structures with registered events and a log of the events the Event structure handled. Right-click an Event structure and select Event Inspector Window to view the event information.Customizing When a Control Responds to Movements of the Mouse Wheel In LabVIEW 2013, you can specify when a control responds to mouse wheel movements. To do this, navigate to the Key Navigation page of the Properties dialog box for that control. Then select from the available...