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and structural mechanics software together ensure product integrity in the face of increasing package power densities and high solder-curing temperatures. In the area of RF and microwave device design, electronics engineers rely on our tools to analyze multi-domain performance of antennas, radar systems and other products. Systems that are hundreds of meters in size can generate signifi- cant amounts of heat, and thermal solvers help ensure their safe long-term operation. Vibration and drop tests — conducted using structural mechanics tools — support the reliable perfor- mance of radar systems and antennas found in both military and civilian vehicles. Your organization has the opportu- nity to optimize performance and spur innovation across virtually every facet of electronics design, with unerring accuracy. Whatever engineering challenges you face, ANSYS offers the unique capabilities to solve them. Because of their complexity, electronics product designs often require numerically large simula- tions. ANSYS HPC capabilities support the fast and accurate solution of even sophisticated problems such as EMI and acoustic noise reduc- tion. By leveraging parallel processing power in conjunction with HPC technologies such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and domain decomposition, electronics engineers can streamline and automate even the most complex simulations. ANSYS: A Product-Wide Perspective Powerful and far-reaching, our software provides the only technology platform that offers physics depth, breadth and scalability. For example, semiconductor manufacturers rely on solutions from ANSYS to address a wide range of design concerns in devel- oping new chips, packages and printed circuit boards. Our signal- and power-integrity tools help eliminate noise, crosstalk and other adverse electromagnetic effects. Heat transfer NVIDIA is a world leader in visual computing tech- nologies and the inventor of the GPU. The company applied our software in designing the GPU to ensure a clear communication link between pixel generation and display. In turn, ANSYS leveraged the device as an HPC enabler, which can dramatically reduce simula- tion processing time by as much as half. "ANSYS is a virtual laboratory for us. It provides quite a return on investment: We drastically reduce the number of prototypes. And if you know the price of a whole test bench, you know that when we are optimizing or versioning designs, we cannot afford to do a lot of prototypes." Pierre Solomalala Power Electronics R&D Engineer Alstom Transport A perplexing problem for mobile phone users is dropped calls. EPCOS leveraged our suite to simulate the transient dynamic response of an innovative RF-MEMS switch for improving cell phone signal strength. The approach accounted for fluid, electrostatic and mechanical effects in a single model, providing fast turnaround for rapidly changing cell phone requirements. Courtesy EPCOS NL/Philips Applied Technologies.

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