Integrated circuits are the "brain" in computers, cell phones, and many other electronic devices. Scientists have demonstrated substantial improvements in integrated circuits, also known as silicon ...

Wondering about the uses for CAD? Computer-aided design software has shaped the evolution of many fields, allowing designers to create both 2D or 3D plans and prototypes of systems, spaces and objects ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

Architectural students in Mexico used AutoCAD to produce this conceptual design of a soccer-stadium-and-shopping complex. * Screenshot: Autodesk * Autodesk's former CEO Carol Bartz used to be fond of ...

Ansys SimAI is a physics-agnostic and cloud-enabled computer-aided engineering tool that predicts performance of complex simulation scenarios. The game-changer? Engineers train their model and use it ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Since the first FEA solver, Nastran, was developed for NASA in the 1960s, the simulation software industry has contended with a number of hurdles. For one, while the software (FEA, CFD, CEM) is ...

Eric Langjahr, a pioneer in computer-aided handicapping of Thoroughbred racing, died in Las Vegas on Jan. 2 at 47. The co-founder, co-owner, and President of International Thoroughbred Superhighway, ...