Computer-aided designs, such as this model of a fingertip-sized heart pump, can reduce the number of physical prototypes that must be made. Computer-aided design (CAD) is a tool intended to facilitate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luminary provides cloud access to massively parallel processing to enable faster, more accurate computational simulations. Credit: Luminary Cloud A U.S. startup promising to drastically cut the time ...

After radically transforming the world of design and production in sectors such as automotive and aerospace, robotics is now entering the construction sector. That is why École des Ponts ParisTech, a ...

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

Digital systems and technology such as computers, cell phones, and digital cameras have revolutionized our lives. Get ready to design and build the computer hardware and software of tomorrow, ...

TeraPlace integrates a global router, static timing analyzer, 2 1/2-based RC extractor, AWE delay calculator, and ECO capability, into a timing-driven placement flow. Its core engine is a CLK CAD’s ...