Category Archives: Simulation

Altair Signs MoU with the University of Nottingham

TROY, MI, July 24, 2024 – Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UK-based University of Nottingham for a digital twin project within the aerospace sector. The digital twin—set to be the first of its kind—will not merely be a technology demonstrator, but a fully-fledged solution the industry can use to rapidly design, validate, and test the electric propulsion systems of new aircraft or advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles and/or to evaluate the retrofit of existing ones.

The agreement will give University of Nottingham researchers unlimited access to the Altair HyperWorks design and simulation and Altair RapidMiner data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. The platforms will empower researchers with technology for AI-powered multiphysics and multi-domain simulation, along with full data analytics and machine learning technology to manage experimental data and close the loop between the digital and physical models. In addition, the agreement also provides the university team with access to Altair’s high-performance computing (HPC) tools and unlimited training.

“Altair is committed to boosting innovation with a focus on next-generation sustainability in all sectors. This is why we partner with some of the most advanced universities and research centers in the world, like the University of Nottingham,” said Dr. Pietro Cervellera, senior vice president of aerospace and defense, Altair. “Through our leading technology and expertise, our ultimate aim is to develop groundbreaking new solutions that open new possibilities and advance sustainability in aerospace, transportation, and beyond.”

“We share Altair’s vision of accelerating the creation and delivery of innovations that can transform the technologies and systems we use every day,” said Chris Gerada, Professor of Electrical Machines and lead for strategic research and innovation initiatives at the University of Nottingham. “Altair’s technology will help us to accelerate the translation of zero carbon research into real-world industry solutions that decarbonise transportation. Paired with our leading strengths in electrification, hydrogen and manufacturing, this collaboration increases our capabilities and boosts Altair’s status as a key industry partner of choice for the university.”

This MoU is a key achievement that supports the capabilities of the university’s new Zero Carbon Innovation Centre, co-funded by East Midlands Freeport, to build a complete digital twin of an electric propulsion system. Thanks to the vast possibilities Altair’s technology offers, the teams now have technology that spans energy storage (including batteries and fuel cells), power electronics and digital controllers, motors, cables, inverters, and the management of the systems’ thermal, power, and electromagnetic interference (EMI).

For nearly 40 years has been a major player in providing software solutions for the aerospace industry. To learn more about Altair’s aerospace solutions, visit https://altair.com/aerospace-and-defense.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

Ansys 2024 R2 Launched

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 24, 2024 – Ansys 2024 R2 redefines the boundaries of product design by enabling customers to move beyond the limits of single-physics simulation to gain multidimensional insight into the performance of today’s complex products. R2 enhancements focused on accelerating run times, scaling capacity, enabling digital transformation, and providing hardware flexibility are making Ansys multiphysics simulations more accessible and powerful than ever before.

Interposer on Package on PCB assembly captured for comprehensive IC to system level simulation and analysis

“Ansys 2024 R2 makes our portfolio deeper, broader, smarter, and more connected than it’s ever been,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. “Customers rely on Ansys software that spans the entire range of physics and domains, from systems simulation to digital twins. We look forward to the truly transformational innovations our customers will engineer with Ansys’ pervasive simulation insights and the expertise of the Ansys Customer Excellence support team.”

Customers across industries will realize gains in productivity and collaboration through R2’s enhancements to connected workflows across the Ansys portfolio.

“We are established users of Ansys enterprise tools and rely on the predictive accuracy, speed, and flexibility that its solutions like Ansys Discovery design tool provide,” said Dr. Jon Powell,  technical specialist simulations at Malvern Panalytical. “The same workflow can start in one engineering department and get passed to another without losing fidelity, all while saving huge amounts of time and effort.”

Complex problems require comprehensive solutions

Ansys 2024 R2 streamlines multiphysics workflows, simplifying the process of connecting multiple, disparate software technologies across domains. The new release makes it easier for users to comprehensively evaluate cost and performance throughout a product’s life cycle, from the most complex chips to electric vehicle powertrains.

Advanced packaging techniques for next-generation IC designs promise significant performance gains but increase design complexity. The new Ansys HFSS-IC solver addresses the growing complexity of today’s advanced chip designs. Integrating Ansys’ leading electronic and semiconductor technologies, the new HFSS-IC solver excels at deep electromagnetic analysis for IC signoff across power and signal integrity analysis — ensuring the final iteration delivers the performance demanded by next-generation electronic devices.

Increasingly complex multiphysics design challenges are permeating nearly every industry, including automotive. As companies seek to mature electric vehicle (EV) technology, optimizing noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) in EV motors is crucial to vehicle performance and safety. Enhancements to Ansys Mechanical structural simulation software for e-powertrain workflows boost overall productivity of NVH analyses by delivering more accurate test correlation, acoustics simulation, and speed improvements.

This release also includes seamless data transfer between the Ansys Zemax optical system design software and the Ansys Speos optical performance analysis solver to more efficiently evaluate and optimize optical designs — including large systems with complex fields and wavelengths. For example, the integration unlocks streamlined straylight analysis for optical systems to help users eliminate unwanted effects caused by lens flare, light leakage, and scattering in optical systems.

From chips to missions to deployment: Ansys AI enhances solutions across domains 

Ansys continues to deliver new use cases for AI, adding the Ansys TwinAI software to its portfolio. TwinAI software seamlessly combines insights from real-world data, powered by cutting-edge AI techniques, with the accuracy of multidomain models. This release also includes improvements to enable scaled deployments to the cloud or edge, allowing customers to unlock additional insights from real-world data.

“Innovation fuels progress, and at Tata Steel Nederland, we’re pioneering a transformative journey towards sustainability,” said Paul van Beurden, knowledge group leader – R&D, Tata Steel Nederland. “By harnessing the power of Ansys TwinAI software, we’re optimizing our production processes, minimizing energy loss, and driving towards our decarbonization reduction targets of 30-40% by 2030 and being carbon neutral by 2045. Ansys technology is instrumental in getting us there.”

The Ansys Missions AI + tool is a new technology that delivers algorithms focused on enhancing Ansys Digital Mission Engineering (DME) products. Engineers can automatically evaluate the quality of resulting orbit solutions with tuned models to provide expert-level analysis and enhanced safety of flight routines. Infusing AI into Ansys DME solutions allows users of varying simulation expertise to access and deploy the technology with ease.

Ansys AI integrations are also creating design efficiencies for nanometer-scale semiconductor applications. Ansys RaptorX electromagnetic modeling software now includes an AI-driven IC floorplan optimization solution, which identifies the ideal layout for mitigating electromagnetic coupling issues in analog and RF IC designs. By combining the power of the RaptorX solver with AI, users can reduce circuit footprint and shrink design time from weeks to days.

Ansys hardware partners and open ecosystem deliver blistering simulation speed

Ansys technology in 2024 R2 facilitates highly scalable high-performance computing (HPC) deployment, with all solver technologies optimized to run on central processing units (CPUs) and a growing list of solutions optimized for the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware from multiple vendors. This list includes the Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors software for autonomous system testing, which now features adaptive grid sampling for long range object detection. Adaptive grid sampling allows simulation users to narrow their focus on specific objects within a virtual driving scenario to gather more targeted data. When compared to global sampling, which gathers all data from a driving scenario resulting in oversampling, the AVxcelerate Sensors enhancement delivers 3x faster simulation and 6.8x less GPU memory consumption with the same or better level of object detection and predictive accuracy.

Ansys Fluent fluid simulation software boasts new hardware compatibility with AMD GPUs, supporting a broader selection of hardware options. Users working on acoustics, reacting flows, or subsonic/transonic compressible flows can now leverage the multi-GPU solver to run their simulations at exponentially faster speeds with the expansion of physics modeling capabilities. Embedded integration of Ansys optiSLang process integration and design optimization software supports further exploration of design options through built-in parametric optimization.

Click here to learn more about Ansys 2024 R2.

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.

Ansys Q2 Results, Conf Call on July 31

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 22, 2024 – Ansys announced that the company expects to release its second quarter earnings on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, after the market closes. As previously announced, in light of the pending transaction with Synopsys, Inc. (Synopsys), Ansys has suspended quarterly earnings conference calls and no longer provides quarterly or annual guidance.

After the market closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, you can find the following information on the investor section of our website at https://investors.ansys.com: the earnings press release and the 10-Q filing.

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.

Ansys Partners with Supermicro, NVIDIA

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 22, 2024 – Ansys is collaborating with Supermicro and NVIDIA to deliver turnkey hardware, enabling unmatched acceleration for Ansys multiphysics simulation solutions. By leveraging the combined power of industry-leading hardware and software, Ansys customers can solve larger, more complex models up to 1,600x faster. When running on Supermicro and NVIDIA technology, Ansys solutions reduce time-to-market and facilitate more robust design exploration for a wide range of applications, including automotive crash testing and external aerodynamics, aerospace gas turbine engines, 5G/6G antennas, and biopharmaceutical development.

5G Antenna simulation using Ansys HFSS to accurately assess performance impact of antenna placement.

Getting the most out of multiphysics simulation involves integrating different types of physics solvers with a range of hardware choices, each offering unique performance benefits. However, sizing and configuring the right hardware for multiphysics simulation is a complex task that can significantly impact performance, cost, and productivity. Turnkey, customized hardware solutions with central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), interconnects, and cooling modules allow engineers to run predictively accurate simulations more efficiently.

Collaborative testing between Ansys and Supermicro discovered replicating the performance of Ansys Fluent and Ansys Rocky running on one NVIDIA GPU would require 1,500 and 480 CPU cores, respectively. Ansys Perceive EM running on one NVIDIA GPU achieves the same performance as 1,000,000+ CPU cores. In addition, the testing process revealed the following accelerations:

The speed-ups were achieved by introducing or replacing CPU cores and GPUs with NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA hardware used in testing included NVIDIA H100 GPUs, NVIDIA L40S GPUs, and the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.

“The breadth and depth of the Ansys multiphysics portfolio requires a thoughtful approach to compute infrastructure with GPUs,” said Vik Malyala, president & managing director, EMEA; SVP, Technology & AI, Supermicro. “We are closely working with Ansys and NVIDIA with the broadest GPU and CPU systems offering (Hyper/CloudDC, scalable GPU systems: 4U-10U, and others) to accelerate simulations, eliminate guesswork, and improve customer deployment time worldwide.”

With NVIDIA technology designed with Ansys and Supermicro’s energy-efficient server technology, engineers can reduce overhead costs and energy consumption by using fewer servers to do the same work.

“Supermicro provides exceptional architecture for Ansys solutions, reducing constraints on the number, size, and complexity of simulation models,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. “We remain committed to working with NVIDIA to migrate our solutions currently supported on Hopper chips to Blackwell. By offering advanced, customized configurations with Blackwell and Hopper superchips, our customers’ projects can truly span the full range of physics, from fluids to electronics and structures.”

“The synergy between Ansys and NVIDIA is propelling us into a new era of technological innovation,” said Dion Harris, director of data center product solutions at NVIDIA. “Ansys simulation solutions play a key role in the development of our cutting-edge AI superchips, while NVIDIA’s accelerated data center AI and digital twin platforms empower Ansys to push the boundaries of simulation performance. Together, we’re unlocking deeper insights and paving the way for groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of engineering and AI.”

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.

Altair Names SoftPower Channel Partner for France

TROY, MI, July 16, 2024 – Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, has announced a strategic partnership with SoftPower, a company dedicated to helping advance the simulation market in France. By leveraging SoftPower’s local expertise and Altair’s innovative solutions, this collaboration will help foster a new era of technological advancement and innovation in simulation, all while delivering exceptional service and support.

“The partnership with SoftPower highlights our dedication to shaping the future of simulation technology,” said Kimon Afsaridis, managing director of Eastern Europe and vice president of indirect EMEA sales, Altair. “The collaboration marks a significant milestone in our partner strategy for France, reinforcing our commitment to providing top-class support to our customers.”

“We are delighted to partner with Altair, a world leader in computational intelligence,” said Hossein Shakourzadeh, chief executive officer, SoftPower. “Thanks to our strong team of expert consultants, SoftPower helps customers empower their innovations using the market’s best software. This partnership strengthens customer proximity to ensure exceptional customer service – a key to our success.”

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Versailles, France, SoftPower offers training and services that align with Altair solutions. SoftPower supports its customers with high level consulting and expertise that helps customers embrace new technology by exploring best-in-class computational science tools.

Altair works with a global network of channel and technology partners. To learn more or to become a partner, visit https://altair.com/altair-partners.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

Altair Names Minsait Channel Partner for the EMEA Region

TROY, MI, July 15, 2024 – Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, is proud to announce Minsait as a new channel partner for the EMEA region. Minsait will offer Altair’s innovative data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to its customers throughout the EMEA region with the goal of bringing cutting-edge AI, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to a broader range of industries, including financial servicesenergy, and public administration.

“The partnership between Altair and Minsait marks the beginning of a new era in AI excellence and represents a commitment to driving transformative technological advancements,” said Kimon Afsaridis, managing director of Eastern Europe and vice president of indirect EMEA sales, Altair. “Collaborating with Minsait underscores our dedication to shaping the future of technology and signifies a major milestone in expanding our global market presence.”

“This agreement helps us increase our capabilities in modernizing analytical applications and their adoption in the cloud; it also bolsters our offering of solutions related to data analytics, AI, and HPC,” said Ignacio Jiménez Pinillos, head of data, Minsait. “Partnering with Altair is also an important step for us in strengthening our value proposition in the financial services and insurance, energy, and public administration sectors.”

Altair’s advanced AI and HPC technologies, coupled with Minsait’s expertise in digital transformation, will empower businesses to enhance their efficiency, competitiveness, and ability to innovate at speed.

Altair works with a global network of channel and technology partners. To learn more or to become a partner, visit https://altair.com/altair-partners.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

Altair Releases HyperWorks 2024

TROY, MI, July 11, 2024 – Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, announced the release of Altair HyperWorks 2024, the market’s leading platform for design and simulation. The latest release delivers significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engineering and business, mechanical and electronics systems design, and simulation-driven design and optimization.

“Altair HyperWorks 2024 is the only platform offering a unified, modern user experience across any geometry, physics, and complexity and at every stage of the product development life cycle from design to in-service,” said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “With AI-embedded workflows, game-changing photorealistic graphics, and a unified back-end data system, Altair HyperWorks is the foundation upon which many of the world’s most innovative digital engineering practices are being built.”

AI-Powered Engineering and Business

Providing the data backbone essential for AI enterprises, Altair HyperWorks 2024 unleashes AI across every step of the product life cycle. Seamlessly embedded AI in design and simulation tools accelerates exploration, while engineer-friendly, HPC-fueled workflows augment the human-AI relationship. Altair HyperWorks 2024 deepens these capabilities, enhancing processes from design to in-service operations, giving users the ability to:

Accelerate design exploration and iteration with generative design capabilities in Altair HyperMesh.

Conduct effortless thermal analysis in Altair SimLab through ‘what-if’ studies using real-world data from Altair physicsAI models to make design of experiments (DOE) more efficient.

Rapidly predict behavior with generative design in Altair Inspire to maximize efficiency in both design and manufacturing while ensuring top performance.

Focus more on innovation, benefiting from dramatically faster training times and enhanced AI-powered capabilities. Engineers can train physicsAI models with a single click on Altair Drive utilizing the scalable HPC and cloud resources of Altair One. This eliminates infrastructure barriers and accelerates design exploration with advances in AI accessibility.

Leading the Engineering User Experience

Altair HyperWorks 2024 brings forth a paradigm shift in engineering. Through an AI-powered, modern experience, productivity is enhanced by intuitive workflows, efficient design environments, game-changing photorealistic graphics for better visualization, and a unified back-end data model. With support for Python and C++, Altair HyperWorks ensures seamless integration with more than 250 CAD systems, solvers, and file formats, removing interoperability bottlenecks while empowering engineers with extensive scripting capabilities to customize the platform and automate repetitive tasks.

One Source of Truth: Digital Engineering

Altair integrates digital twins and digital threads to create a digital engineering ecosystem, providing one source of truth that ensures engineers have access to the most accurate real-time data and models. The latest updates to Altair Twin Activate enhance models’ accuracy and clarity and include customization and integration improvements that expedite the transition from concept to reality.

Additionally, Altair Material Data Center augments the design process by offering more than 72,000 high-fidelity, CAE-ready material datasets, empowering alternative material exploration throughout the product development life cycle with one traceable digital thread.

Mechanical and Electronic System Design

Altair HyperWorks 2024 focuses on elevating design fidelity and streamlining engineering workflows with robust integration and automation capabilities. It includes:

Enhanced productivity with Python API in HyperMesh, empowering engineers to automate routine tasks, tailor their CAE environment with custom plugins, integrate with other tools, and access a vast support network through the Python community.

Accelerated electronics system design perfection from the start with SimLab. Through the Ultra Librarian integration, users get faster, more accurate 3D printed circuit board (PCB) modeling. Users can predict and enhance PCB lifespan with fatigue life simulations, analyze electric motors using advanced multiphysics analysis, and simulate diverse materials to understand fluid flow dynamics.

Meshless ECAD simulation with Altair SimSolid, transforming mechanical and electronics systems into smart, connected realities, from requirements to embedded systems, with new solver capabilities for multi-disciplinary electronics. It empowers users to seamlessly transition from ECAD to simulation, optimizing the analysis of complex PCB and integrated circuit (IC) models without the need for traditional meshing or design simplifications.

Simulation-Driven Design and Optimization

As the most comprehensive simulation-driven design solution for design, performance analysis, and manufacturability, Inspire reinforces its market-leading position. Starting with a sketch, users can build or edit geometries with parametric B-Rep solids, polyNURBS, facets, and implicit modeling. It features analysis tools for structural, fluid dynamics, and motion studies, complemented by designer-friendly computational physics for detailed analysis across various manufacturing processes. Inspire also integrates powerful technologies like generative design, meshless simulation, and physicsAI for rapid behavior prediction, maximizing design and manufacturing efficiency while ensuring top performance.

To learn more about Altair HyperWorks 2024, visit https://altair.com/hyperworks-2024. To view presentations from this year’s ATCx AI for Engineers virtual event, visit https://events.altair.com/atcx-ai-for-engineers-2024/.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

Ansys Launches STK Availability in AWS Marketplace

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 9, 2024 – Ansys a global leader in engineering simulation software solutions, announced today that Ansys System Tool Kit (STK), an industry-leading software for digital mission engineering and systems analysis, is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

STK modeling the attitude sphere for a remote sensing spacecraft

With the availability of Ansys STK in AWS Marketplace for use in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, US-based customers can procure necessary software and automate machine provisioning without the stress and expense of managing on-premises resources. Engineers can model complex systems inside a realistic 3D simulation that includes high-resolution terrain, imagery, radio frequency environments, and more. The model-based systems engineering framework of Ansys STK also enables engineers to optimize and refine their models much earlier in the design process.

AWS customers will now have access to Ansys STK’s modeling, analyzing, visualizing, and simulating capabilities for satellites, spacecraft, and other critical aerospace and defense systems directly within AWS Marketplace. AWS provides customers with the ability to streamline the purchase and management of STK within their AWS Marketplace account.

“Making Ansys STK available in AWS Marketplace will help critical customers test and optimize new technologies, stay aligned with new guidelines, and efficiently deliver on key programs within the AWS GovCloud (US) Region,” said Kevin Flood, vice president of digital mission engineering at Ansys. “By accessing Ansys STK in AWS Marketplace, customers can now take their first step in achieving streamlined collaboration across distributed teams and on-demand scalability.”

Ansys STK is now generally available in AWS Marketplace. For more information on Ansys and its digital mission engineering solutions, please visit https://www.ansys.com/products/missions.

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.

Ansys Listed in AWS ‘ICMP’ for the US Federal Government

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 9, 2024 – Ansys a global leader in engineering simulation software solutions, today announced that it is listing Ansys STK in the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community (ICMP). ICMP is a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to discover, purchase, and deploy software packages and applications from vendors that specialize in supporting government customers.

Space-based system modeling of crewed spacecraft using Ansys STK

Ansys’ offerings include a broad array of common software infrastructure, developer tools, and business software products, with the categories of products and vendors growing over time. Ansys STK is designed to empower customers to model, analyze, visualize, and simulate high-fidelity satellites, spacecraft, and other critical aerospace and defense systems within their operational environments.

“Our customers face incredible challenges completing projects on time and within budget — one substantial hurdle is ensuring a distributed team can seamlessly access the same resources,” said Kevin Flood, vice president of digital mission engineering at Ansys. “Ansys now offers the gold standard in digital mission engineering simulation solutions on ICMP. This seamless accessibility eases pain points around navigating approval processes and file sharing, allowing users to harness the power of STK from any device, anywhere.”

With STK, engineers can model complex systems inside a realistic, simulated 3D environment that includes high-resolution terrain, imagery, radio frequency, and more. It enables users to simulate entire system-of-systems in action and gain a clear understanding of behavior and mission performance.

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.

Altair Named Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner

SEOUL, South Korea, July 9, 2024 – Altair a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selected as an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE).

Through this collaboration, Altair and Samsung Electronics will combine Altair’s comprehensive EDA technology with Samsung Foundry’s manufacturing capabilities to establish a more innovative, more efficient semiconductor design and production process.

“Integrated design and verification solutions are a key element in the semiconductor industry, which demands fast, high-quality production,” said Doha Kim, country manager, Altair Korea. “By providing various design and verification solutions, Altair supports collaboration within the ecosystem, including with Samsung Foundry, design houses, and fabless companies, to enhance productivity and quality.”

Altair was selected as a SAFE EDA partner for its diverse technological capabilities in providing various solutions needed for semiconductor design and verification, including silicon debugging tools. These solutions are used to meet and verify various design requirements for foundry customers by providing chip design, analog circuit verification, production process simulation, and rapid debugging technology.

Among these solutions is Altair FlowTracer, a visualization platform for digital circuit design flow that facilitates problem identification and resolution for library and process design kit (PDK) users through visualization. Additionally, it standardizes complex multi-structure design flows, enabling efficient management of semiconductor design and verification processes.

Within the partnership, Altair also plans to offer integrated solutions including high-performance computing (HPC) resource management, AI-based meta-scheduling technology, and data analytics solutions. Together, both companies aim to enhance market responsiveness and product development competitiveness to quickly handle large amounts of data.

For more information, visit https://semiconductor.samsung.com/kr/events/foundry-events/.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.