Advanced Visual Systems launches new Engineering Products Group.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 26, 1996-- New business unit to provide world-class development tools to engineering-based visualization application providers Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ) today launched the Engineering Products Group to address the visual application development needs of engineering System Integrators (SIs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and research engineering organizations. The new business unit will extend the company's leading position in providing development environments for building complex engineering visualization applications. The Engineering Products Group provides software, technical support, training and consulting services specific to the needs of engineering application developers, including those in the aerospace, automotive, chemical process, and semiconductor industries. These developers specialize in Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. ), Electronic Design Automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ), Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and Process Simulation Control (PSC (Public Service Commission) Same as PUC. ). AVS: Enabling Engineers to Visualize the Design and Production Process "This new business unit ensures that we have the tools our customers need to develop engineering applications quickly and efficiently," said Ian Curington, Director of the Engineering Products Group. "With the formation of this group, AVS is well positioned to capitalize on the increased emphasis on visualization capabilities in the engineering marketplace," added Curington. For example, computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve (CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics ), the study of fluid behavior in a specific environment, is one of the fastest growing sectors within CAE. Its applications can be found in almost all industrial sectors, from food processing and water treatment, to automotive aerodynamics, gas turbine design, and aerospace. "We are also seeing significant growth in electromagnetic modeling, and computer chip design software," said Curington. The company's visualization products-AVS/Express, AVS, Toolmaster, and Gsharp-are already used by leading engineering research organizations and developers. Fast growing industries need new software to sustain growth. Using the pre-fabricated building blocks of AVS/Express, companies can assemble new applications in record time. World-wide customers in the research arena include large government labs, such as Los Alamos National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratories, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is a research and development facility dedicated to the support of the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program — a joint program of the United States Navy and United States Department of Energy, responsible for the research, design, , and National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ). Large commercial customers include Boeing Computer Services, Dow Corning, Dow Chemical, Lockheed-Martin, Hughes Aircraft, Rockwell International, Sikorsky Aircraft, Goodyear, Texas Instruments, Intel, Motorola, and Fairchild Space and Defense. International customers include British Aerospace, Unilever, and Pilkingtons in the UK; Ferrari Formula 1, ENEL ENEL Ente Nazionale Energia Elettrica (Italy) ENEL Empresa Nicaraguense de Energía Electrica (Nicaragua) , and CIRA in Italy; ONERA ONERA Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (French Aeronautics and Space Research Center) , CEA CEA carcinoembryonic antigen. CEA abbr. carcinoembryonic antigen CEA (Carcinoembryonic antigen) , and Aereospatiale in France; Ericsson and SAAB SAAB Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Corporation; auto/aircraft manufacturer) SAAB Student-Athlete Advisory Board SAAB Student African American Brotherhood SAAB South African Association of Botanists in Sweden; DLR DLR Dollar(s) DLR Dealer DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) DLR Docklands Light Railway (London, UK) DLR Dynamic Language Runtime and Daimler Benz in Germany; and Hitachi, Toyota, Fuji Electric Company, and Toshiba Electronics in Japan. Engineering application developer customers include Technology Modeling Associates, Hewlett Packard Company, Grumman Aerospace, Sandia Labs, Ford, McDonnell Douglas, AEA Technology plc in the UK, and ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. NET and Otsuka Electronics in Japan. AVS/Express: Accelerates and Eases Engineering Application Development Advanced Visual Systems software products provide a visual programming environment to radically reduce application development time and allow anyone, from scientists to software developers to end-users, to convert data from a variety of sources into insightful, interactive 2D and 3D visualizations. Technology Modeling Associates of Sunnyvale, Ca., used AVS/Express in the development of their product, TMA Visual. TMA Visual allows engineers designing integrated circuits to understand the effects of device physics on circuit performance. "Success of new circuit designs relies on understanding these effects at the 'deep micron' level, and now with AVS/Express-developed TMA Visual, design physicists can see the results of simulation in 3D," said Tony Slocum, manager of the System and Utilities Branch, Engineering and Development at Technology Modeling Associates. "Thanks to AVS/Express-based TMA Visual," added Tony, "engineers visualize data for analysis and then can modify the resulting plots to gain new perspectives. It gives us a distinct competitive edge." "The main reason that we use AVS software is that it gives us a portable, full function graphics renderer and also a lot of visualization techniques that we can make use of," said David Clayworth of UK-based AEA Technology, one of the largest suppliers of computational fluid dynamics software and consulting in the world. AEA software, which can simulate almost any type of fluid flow and heat transfer process, uses AVS graphics and visualization capabilities to build their post processor so that users get the best possible viewing and animation tools to interpret their results. "If we had attempted to write this capability ourselves, it would have taken many years of effort. By using AVS products, we were able to develop a usable, complete toolkit in only 18 months," added Clayworth. About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is the leading supplier of "visual intelligence" development tools and end-user software that transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geographic information systems (GIS), oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunications, and financial services. The company's products run on Windows 95, Windows NT, and all major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations and they are supported on the Internet. Advanced Visual Systems distributes its products through a direct sales force in the U.S., through subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and through distributors in numerous other countries. KGT Inc. in Japan oversees sales and distribution channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim. -0- AVS/Express is a registered trademark, and AVS, Toolmaster, and Gsharp are trademarks, of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. All other products mentioned are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Bernie Buelow Ian Curington Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Advanced Visual Systems Ltd. 617-890-4300, ext. 2265 (UK) +44-1932-566608 E-mail: bbuelow@avs.com Email: ianc@avsuk.com http://www.avs.com http://www.avs.com/ianc/ |
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