Ansoft Releases Enhanced Version of SIMPLORER SV; Free Software Lets Automotive, Aerospace, and Electric-Drive Engineers Evaluate VHDL-AMS Modeling Language.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2002 Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) today announced the release of SIMPLORER(R) SV version 6, a free downloadable version of SIMPLORER, Ansoft's mixed-domain systems design software. The tool is rapidly being adopted within the automotive, aerospace, and electric-drive industries. SIMPLORER SV, originally created to give professors and students access to a professional-grade design tool, has become a popular method for industry engineers to evaluate SIMPLORER's capabilities and to solve small-scale problems. More than 16,000 users have downloaded the free tool since its inception last March. The new version integrates VHDL-AMS, a standard modeling language for analog mixed-signal design, within SIMPLORER's popular graphical user environment. Users can now perform simulations using VHDL-AMS alone or in combination with circuits, block diagrams A chart that contains squares and rectangles connected with arrows to depict hardware and software interconnections. For program flow charts, information system flow charts, circuit diagrams and communications networks, more elaborate graphical representations are usually used. , state machines, and SIMPLORER's other modeling languages. Ansoft also has added DC and AC analysis capabilities to the software, making SIMPLORER an attractive alternative to SPICE simulation. "Multi-domain and mixed-signal design have become increasingly important as the automotive, aerospace, and electric-drive industries race to deliver electrically enhanced products," said Uwe Knorr, Product Marketing Director at Ansoft. "SIMPLORER SV allows engineers to easily explore the power of Ansoft's integrated design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. solutions and helps students gain marketable skills in this emerging industry." SIMPLORER SV version 6.0, available for download at www.ansoft.com/about/academics/simplorer_sv/index.cfm, has all the basic features of the commercially available version but on a smaller scale. The new version includes an open AMS AMS - Andrew Message System and VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. basic components library within an easy-to-use Windows(R) environment for electrical, control, power electronics, drives, and related engineering disciplines. SIMPLORER SV does not require activation or licensing and is ready to use after the installation process. Please note that Ansoft does not provide technical support for free software. About Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance 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. ) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art products, such as standard automotive components and systems, 42-volt systems, hybrid cars, electric vehicles, drive-by-wire systems, power electronics, fuel-cell technology, wireless products, integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs), and printed circuit boards (PCBs). Ansoft markets its software worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia, and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com. |
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