Simulation updates abound: SimScale, Simulink, quantum and more

Engineering.com’s roundup of recent simulation news.

SimScale enhances AI simulation and more

SimScale GmbH unveiled several updates to its automotive simulation platform that will “help [customers] unlock next-generation engineering techniques,” according to Jon Wilde, VP of product management at SimScale, in the company’s press release. The updates include improvements to SimScale’s AI simulation feature, enhancements to its electromagnetics solver and conjugate heat transfer solver, various improvements to structural analysis and better enterprise collaboration features. SimScale capped the announcement with the news that more than 600,000 registered users have now signed up for the cloud simulation platform.

Matlab and Simulink updated to release 2024b

MathWorks, developer of Matlab and Simulink, has announced Release 2024b of its flagship products. According to the developer, the new release includes “major updates that streamline the workflows of engineers and researchers working on wireless communications systems, control systems, and digital signal processing applications.” Among those updates are the addition of 6G waveform generation to 5G Toolbox, the ability to design nonlinear data-driven control techniques in Simulink Control Design, and a new interactive app to configure digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and generate hardware definition language (HDL) code.

Keysight introduces quantum circuit simulation tool

Keysight Technologies has introduced a new EDA tool for designing and simulating quantum circuits called Quantum Ckt Sim. Developed in partnership with Google Quantum AI, Quantum Ckt Sim incorporates frequency-domain flux quantization in its circuit solvers, which Keysight claims as an industry first.


(Image: Keysight Technologies.)

“This significant milestone leverages EDA capabilities to streamline the design of superconducting microwave circuits for quantum applications and beyond. We anticipate this advancement will empower quantum engineers to enhance the performance of parametric quantum circuits, particularly in terms of power handling and bandwidth, which are crucial for the readout of qubits in quantum computers,” said Mohamed Hassan, quantum solutions planning lead at Keysight EDA, in the company’s announcement.

Makersite now available in Autodesk Inventor

Makersite announced that it has expanded its strategic partnership with Autodesk to bring sustainability data to Autodesk Inventor. Makersite, which offers carbon, cost and compliance data to product designers, is already available as an add-on in Autodesk Fusion. The new Makersite Inventor add-on will be available on the Autodesk App Store soon, according to Makersite, and will cost $770 per user and $7,000 per 100 materials from the custom materials library.

“Enabling Inventor customers to uncover sustainability insights right in the product they’re already using, leveraging Makersite’s market-leading supply chain intelligence and material analysis data to do so, is exactly the kind of workflow efficiency we’re building into all our tools,” said Stephen Hooper, Autodesk’s vice president of design and manufacturing product development, in Makersite’s press release.

SDC Verifier 2024 R2 released

SDC Verifier announced its 2024 R2 release, which now supports the latest versions of FEA software including Ansys, Siemens Femap and Siemens Simcenter 3D. SDC Verifier 2024 R2 also adds support for new standards and codes including ASME BTH-1:2023 (a standard for below-the-hook lifting devices) and DNV CG-01-28 (a standard for plate buckling). Other new features of SDC Verifier, according to the developer, include a streamlined process for generating load combinations, a new parameter search feature, improvements to the Panel Finder tool and a redesigned online help page.

(Image: SDC Verifier.)
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