Computer-aided engineering and EDA

ACIS

ACIS is a commercial 3D geometric modeling kernel, an object-oriented C++ geometry library, developed by Three-Space Ltd with Spatial Technology and now owned by Dassault Systèmes.

Acoustic simulation is the computational modeling of sound generation, propagation, and vibration in rooms, vehicles, aircraft, and products, used for design, testing, and noise control. It predicts sound pressure, transmission loss, and room acoustics.

Altium

Altium is a San Diego, California, electronic design automation company known for Altium Designer, a printed circuit board design application, and Altium 365, a cloud collaboration platform.

Ansys CFX

Ansys CFX is a computational fluid dynamics software package developed by Ansys, part of Synopsys, positioned for turbomachinery design and optimization, and paired with Ansys Fluent as its general-purpose solver.

Ansys Fluent

Ansys Fluent is a commercial computational fluid dynamics software package sold by Ansys, Inc., modeling fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions in complex geometries.

Ansys Maxwell

Ansys Maxwell is a 2D and 3D electromagnetic field simulation solver for low-frequency fields, originally developed by Ansoft in 1986, used to design electric machines, transformers, and actuators.

Ansys Workbench

Ansys Workbench is the integration and workflow platform connecting Ansys simulation products: it links geometry, meshing, solving, and post-processing in one project schematic, with CAD interoperability and multiphysics data sharing.

Arnold (software)

Arnold is a Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer for 3D film, TV, and game imagery, created by Marcos Fajardo and acquired by Autodesk with Solid Angle in 2016.

AutoCAD DXF

AutoCAD DXF, or Drawing Interchange Format, is a file format Autodesk launched with AutoCAD 1.0 in 1982, used mainly to exchange 2D geometric data between CAD packages.

Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk Inventor is a 3D mechanical computer-aided design application by Autodesk, begun in 1996, combining parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design with simulation and documentation tools.

Autodesk Revit

Autodesk Revit, also known as Revit, is building information modeling (BIM) software from Autodesk in which architects, engineers, and construction firms design buildings from one shared model.

BIOVIA

BIOVIA is the scientific innovation software brand of French software company Dassault Systèmes, created in 2014 after acquiring Accelrys, providing informatics, laboratory management, and modeling and simulation software for life sciences, chemicals, and materials industries.

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems is an American electronic design automation company formed in 1988 and based in San Jose, California, whose software designs and verifies chips.

Cadence Virtuoso

Cadence Virtuoso is a custom integrated circuit design platform from Cadence Design Systems, first released in 1991 and used for schematic capture, circuit simulation, and layout of analog and mixed-signal ICs.

Cadence Xcelium

Cadence Xcelium is a logic simulator sold by Cadence Design Systems for functional verification of digital and mixed-signal semiconductor designs, launched in 2017 as the industry's first production-proven parallel simulator.

CATIA

CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) is a CAD, CAM, and PLM software suite by Dassault Systèmes, created in 1981 to serve the aerospace industry; Boeing used it to design the 777.

CFD-DEM coupling

CFD-DEM coupling is a numerical simulation method combining computational fluid dynamics for the fluid with the discrete element method for particles, introduced by Tsuji and colleagues in 1993.

Cimatron

Cimatron is an integrated CAD/CAM software suite for tooling design and manufacture, covering molds, dies, and electrodes from quoting through 2.5- to 5-axis CNC programming.

CityGML

CityGML, or City Geography Markup Language, is an open OGC standard for semantic 3D city models whose objects carry meaning as well as shape, enabling energy, solar, and cadastral analysis.

Clock tree synthesis

Clock tree synthesis is the stage of VLSI physical design, after placement and before routing, that builds a balanced buffer tree to distribute the clock with minimal skew.

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is the use of software to simulate product performance, covering structural, thermal, fluid, electromagnetic, and acoustic analysis, so engineering decisions come from mathematical models before physical testing.

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), also written computer-assisted manufacturing, uses computer systems to plan, manage, and control plant operations, typically converting CAD designs into G-Code for CNC machines.

Computer-aided process planning

Computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is a manufacturing engineering method that uses software to convert a CAD model into operation sequences and routings, treated as the bridge between CAD and CAM.

Concepts NREC

Concepts NREC is a turbomachinery engineering and software company in White River Junction, Vermont, formed in 2000 when Concepts ETI acquired the Northern Research and Engineering Corporation's assets.

Creo (software)

Creo, also sold as PTC Creo, is a parametric 3D CAD platform developed by PTC that began as Pro/ENGINEER in 1988 and was renamed Creo in 2010.

CST Studio Suite

CST Studio Suite is a commercial 3D electromagnetic analysis software package from Dassault Systèmes, used to design and optimize antennas, filters, motors, and other electromagnetic components.

Datamine

Datamine is a mining software company covering the mining value chain from data capture and geological modeling through mine planning and reconciliation, built around the Studio product family.

Datasheet

A datasheet, also called a spec sheet or product data sheet, is the manufacturer's official, controlled document describing a component's electrical, thermal, and mechanical characteristics, which engineers use to select and qualify parts.

Design Automation Conference

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the flagship annual conference of the electronic design automation field, sponsored by ACM and IEEE and founded in 1964.