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VariCAD
VariCAD
VariCAD is 3D / 2D CAD software primarily intended for mechanical engineering design. The comprehensive CAD software enables designers to quickly create, evaluate, and modify their models. The software is sold as one "fully loaded" package, with all features and functions, for one affordable price. VariCAD delivers an excellent performance-to-price ratio, making it one of the smartest choices on the market today. VariCAD is compact, fast, easy to use, and provides everything necessary for mechanical design. The system contains: 3D Modeling 2D Drawing and Editing Optional Support of Parameters Optional Support of Geometrical Constraints Shells Modeling, Pipelines, Wires Crash Tests (Interferences) 3D Assemblies and Groups Surface Development (Sheet Metal Unbending) Mechanical Part Libraries and Symbol Libraries Calculations of 3D Objects or 2D Sections BOM and Title BlocksStarting Price: 989 €/user -
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Pipe Flow Calculations
Application Services LLC
Fast & Accurate Fluid Flow Calculations. Pipe Flow Calculator is essential for engineers, students, and professionals working with fluid dynamics. With 18 desktop calculators, it solves simple and complex fluid flow problems in under a minute—GUARANTEED. Why Choose Pipe Flow Calculator? ✅ Easy to Use – Just enter values and get instant results. ✅ Trusted Worldwide – Used daily by thousands of professionals. ✅ Reliable & Updated – Bug fixes within 1-2 days. ✅ Transparent Calculations – All formulas are provided. Key Features ✔️ Switch between metric and imperial units. ✔️ Select pipes, materials, and fluids from predefined lists. ✔️ Export results to Excel & Word, save, print, and continue where you left off. ✔️ Copy/paste full calculation reports. Available Calculators 🔹 Pressure Drop, Pipe Diameter, Pump Performance, Reynolds Number 🔹 Orifice Plate, Venturi Tube, Nozzle, Prandtl Probe 🔹 Control Valve, Gas Flow, LPG, Thermal EnergyStarting Price: $9.95/month -
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RunMat
RunMat
RunMat (by Dystr) is a fast, free, open-source alternative for running MATLAB code. Users can run their existing .m files with complete MATLAB language grammar and core semantics. No license fees, no lock-in. 300+ built-in functions supported. RunMat is built with a modern Rust runtime featuring a tiered execution model: an interpreter (Ignition) for instant 5ms startup and a JIT compiler (Turbine/Cranelift) for hot paths. GPU acceleration is automatic via a fusion engine that detects elementwise operation chains and dispatches them as optimized GPU kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, Apple Silicon, and Intel GPUs through Metal, DirectX 12, Vulkan, and WebGPU. Up to 131x faster than NumPy and 7x faster than PyTorch on dense numerical workloads. Runs everywhere: CLI, NPM package, Homebrew, Jupyter kernel, or instantly in the browser via WebAssembly + WebGPU. Single portable binary. MIT licensed.Starting Price: $0 -
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ProtoFlow
ProtoFlow
ProtoFlow is an AI-native desktop electronic design automation (EDA) tool for schematic capture and PCB design. Describe a circuit in plain language to create an editable first draft, search real electronic parts and footprints, inspect datasheets, clean up wiring, and continue manually in familiar schematic and board editors. ProtoFlow supports ERC/DRC review, 3D board inspection, Git-backed versioning and visual diffs, comments and collaboration, plus manufacturing outputs including Gerber, drill, BOM, and placement files. Designs remain normal editable geometry, and users should verify symbols, footprints, connections, and manufacturing data before production. ProtoFlow can read and write native KiCad files and export to established EDA workflows. A free plan is available without a credit card, with paid options for higher AI usage. It is built for hardware engineers, makers, students, educators, researchers, and electronics startups.Starting Price: Free -
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SAM Aviation Maintenance Software
ASA Software ApS
SAM (Simplified Aircraft Maintenance) by ASA Software is an Easy-to-Use Software suite, designed to make aircraft maintenance time saving and cost effective and provides aircraft operators, CAMO and MROs with all the required functionality. Our solution is cloud based - so no need for local servers and easy access from several locations. The license price is independent on the number of aircrafts - only the concurrent users and the modules used, has an influence. -
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MediaLab Compliance & CE
MediaLab
Compliance & CE is MediaLab’s all-inclusive course library and learning management system. This solution provides your employees or students with over 148 courses covering all major laboratory disciplines and ranging from basic to advanced. You can target all of your training needs with CourseBuilder, our included functionality that allows you to customize our courses and build your own courses. You can easily assign courses to specific groups of employees or students and track and review their performance. 10-15 new courses are added every year and automatically included in your subscription. Compliance & CE supports: • The CAP GEN.54200 requirement for an all-inclusive learning management system, • Course customization for targeted training, • Mass group assignments to employees or students, • Detailed score reports, dashboards, and automatic notifications to monitor performance, and more! -
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Limble
Limble CMMS
Maintenance professionals across a variety of industries have a very real challenge: outdated, difficult-to-use, and expensive maintenance software. At Limble, we believe that you should love your CMMS, not just tolerate it. Limble CMMS was created to become the first truly easy-to-use, modern, and mobile CMMS that can be started in minutes with a return on investment within a matter of weeks. A few years later, we have ecstatic and pleased customers all over the world in manufacturing, mining, hospitality, office facilities, religious parishes, energy, restaurants, agriculture, and more.Starting Price: $35.00/month/user -
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AvAIO
SysAIO
At SysAIO, we create all-in-one software solutions to simplify complex operations. Our flagship product, AvAIO, is built for aviation—seamlessly managing reservations, operations, and management, all within in a single platform. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools covering compliance tracking, aircraft airworthiness, and maintenance scheduling. AvAIO centralizes critical data, automates reporting, and enhances decision-making, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and improved resource allocation. Deliver a seamless booking experience with integrated DCS, automated check-in options, and secure payment processing. AvAIO optimizes inventory management, reduces manual workload, and ensures a smooth reservation process—enhancing both passenger satisfaction and operational efficiency. Gain full oversight of your airline’s operations with advanced management tools. Visit our website for more details.Starting Price: $2000 per month -
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Total Phase Data Center Software
Total Phase
Total Phase is a leading provider of embedded systems solutions for engineers all over the world. The Data Center Software is a free bus monitoring software* that captures and displays USB, I2C, SPI, eSPI and CAN bus data. Data Center is the only protocol analysis software in the industry with true, real-time performance and cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Data Center Software features LiveDisplay, LiveFilter, and LiveSearch technologies that allow developers to easily see, filter, and search bus data as it is being captured in real time. *This software is used in conjunction with Total Phase hardware tools for debugging and developing I2C, SPI, CAN, USB, and eSPI systems.Starting Price: $0 -
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Made Snappy
Made Snappy 360
An all-in-one solution for estate agents wanting to list properties faster and win back time. We provide agents like yourself with essential tools that empower the creation of impressive photography, 98% accurate floor plans complete with dimensions, and immersive 360 virtual tours. These are all seamlessly integrated into a single platform, requiring only a fraction of the usual time investment. Virtual Tours: Immerse potential buyers in stunning 360 virtual tours that showcase every inch of a property. Floor Plans: Generate 98% accurate floor plans in 10 minutes with our advanced one-shot-per-room technology - no manual measuring needed. Photo Editing: Enhance property images in 30 minutes, turn grey skies into vibrant blues, captivating potential buyers instantly. Prospecting: Maximise vendor and buyer leads with our Prospect Plus feature, all while safeguarding your clients’ privacy. We offer a no-obligation trial.Starting Price: £30 -
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Tulip
Tulip
Tulip's flexible, no-code frontline operations platform helps manufacturers create front-end applications that guide operators, collect data from workers, machines, and devices, and track metrics against your KPIs. With Tulip, companies can digitally transform their operations in days, gaining real-time visibility of their operations to increase productivity, reduce errors, and drive continuous improvement.Starting Price: $1,200 per year -
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SystemLink
NI
SystemLink eliminates the manual tasks when keeping test systems current and healthy. From automating updates to monitoring system health, SystemLink delivers key information that improves situational awareness and test readiness to help you deliver quality across the product lifecycle. With SystemLink, you ensure that software configurations are accurate, and that test equipment complies with calibration and quality standards. Leveraging an automation and connectivity platform, SystemLink aggregates test and measurement data from all test systems into a centralized data repository. Users have ready access to asset utilization, calibration forecasts as well as test result history, trends, and production metrics data to make proactive decisions on the capital expense, maintenance events, and test or product modifications. -
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Autodesk Flame
Autodesk
3D visual effects (VFX), finishing, and color grading software. Flame® 3D VFX and finishing software provides powerful tools for 3D compositing, visual effects, and editorial finishing. An integrated, creative environment means faster compositing, advanced graphics, color correction, and more. Extract mattes of the human body, head, and face with AI-powered tools for color adjustment, relighting, and digital cosmetic and beauty work. Isolate skies and salient objects quickly for grading and VFX jobs. Edit, composite, and color correct in one environment, without toggling between software. Create and iterate quickly for more productive client sessions. Tools for fast and interactive visual effects finishing and 3D compositing. A timeline-centric, fully compatible assistant station for Flame. A fully compatible creative assistant station for Flame in collaborative VFX workflows. Real-time color grading software for creative look development.Starting Price: $331.11 per month -
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3DCoat
3DCoat
3DCoat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model. Today 3DCoat is available to learn at 300+ Universities, colleges and schools worldwide. 3DCoat is one of the most advanced software applications for creating detailed 3D models. Where other applications in this market segment tend to specialize in one specific task, such as Digital Sculpting or Texture Painting, 3DCoat provides High-End capability across multiple tasks in an asset creation pipeline. These include Sculpting, Retopology, UV Editing , PBR Texture Painting and Rendering. So it can be called a 3D texturing software and 3D texture painting software and 3D sculpting program and Retopology software and UV mapping software and 3D rendering software all combined. In short, 3DCoat removes the need to purchase (and learn) multiple specialty software titles.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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RenderMan
Pixar
Advanced technology from Pixar Animation Studios for rendering VFX and animation. With a new state-of-the-art framework optimized for physically-based rendering, RenderMan can deliver unmatched flexibility for any production pipeline. Not only is RenderMan used for our own feature films at Pixar, it is also used throughout the industry for rendering Visual Effects and animation, making scalability and versatility one of its core strengths. Now you can get out-of-box production tools straight from Pixar Animation Studios, including materials and light transport, no development required. Physically based shading allows RenderMan to deliver highly realistic lighting with minimal setup, including full support for multi-bounce ray traced global illumination and ray traced subsurface scattering. Much research and development has gone into making these traditionally expensive effects a production reality. Materials come fully loaded with all of the creative options.Starting Price: $5 per lincense -
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Verge3D
Soft8Soft
Verge3D® is a powerful and intuitive toolkit that allows Blender, 3ds Max, or Maya artists to create immersive web-based experiences. Verge3D can be used to build interactive animations, product configurators, engaging presentations of any kind, online stores, explainers, e-learning content, portfolios, and browser games. The high-tech 3D web technology becomes accessible with Verge3D. Your exquisite content will live on your website being appreciated by the billion-sized Internet population. Interactivity, including the true 360° view, zoom, and animation, will bring an entirely new level of engagement to your creations. It will work everywhere, from a small smartphone to a workstation and even a TV set. We designed and assembled all the tools you need in one place and called it Verge3D. Find out how Verge3D can transform your business and differentiate your enterprise from the rest of the industry!Starting Price: $290 -
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Maxwell Render
Maxwell Render
Reality means predictable, reliable first-time results. Maxwell Render™ unleashes your creativity without having to struggle with complex computer graphics terminology and countless parameter tweaks. Maxwell Render is specifically made to help architects, designers, and artists to visualize their projects efficiently and accurately with minimum set-up time. Maxwell 5 is the best rendering software for light simulation. The rendering engine combines physically correct lighting with thousands of Maxwell materials to create accurate and extremely realistic images. It is compatible with most 3D or CAD applications. Best lighting engine for designers, architects, and artists from any industry. We constantly strive to improve the realism quality of the render and make the engine faster and easier to use. Maxwell remains unbiased with an easy transition from GPU to CPU, as well as the best cloud rendering service.Starting Price: $60 -
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RoboDK
RoboDK
RoboDK is a powerful and cost-effective simulator for industrial robots and robot programming. RoboDK simulation software allows you to get the most out of your robot. No programming skills are required with RoboDK's intuitive interface. You can easily program any robot offline with just a few clicks. RoboDK has an extensive library with over 500 robot arms. The advantage of using RoboDK's simulation and offline programming tools is that it allows you to program robots outside the production environment. With RoboDK you can program robots directly from your computer and eliminate production downtime caused by shop floor programming. Use your robot arm like a 5-axis milling machine (CNC) or a 3D printer. Simulate and convert NC programs to robot programs (G-code or APT-CLS files). RoboDK will automatically optimize the robot path, avoiding singularities, axis limits and collisions. Simulation and Offline Programming of industrial robots has never been easier.Starting Price: €145 -
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K-Display View
Kubotek3D
K-Display® View software means less effort getting all the design details to everyone in your chain. Programs and apps for reading, navigating, and measuring all major CAD file formats on any device. With K-Display View, you will always be prepared for the next CAD file, no matter what it is. K-Display requires no additional CAD software and is designed with an intuitive interface, allowing manufacturing, sales, support, and service departments to easily view and interrogate files. You can relax because K-Display View is a local install, read-only program so you will never save a changed version of the file or need to upload sensitive/customer data to the Internet. Powered by Kubotek’s next-generation Kosmos technology, K-Display employs full multi-threaded processing guaranteed to bring a new level of speed when opening larger files. K-Display View has desktop and mobile compatible versions, supporting Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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ABViewer
CADSoftTools
ABViewer is universal software for PC for working with drawings. It enables you to view, edit, convert, measure and print DWG and other CAD files, as well as 3D models and raster images. You can work with a separate fragment of a drawing or, on the contrary, with a group of files. All this at an attractive price! ABViewer allows converting single files or a group of files. Batch conversion provides a wide range of export settings, for example, black-and-white mode, specifying the output file size, etc. The 3D section panel has controls for setting up visual display of 3D models and section planes. The panel is available in the 3D Viewer mode. The commands and options of the 3D Section panel enable to customize 3D model viewing. To display parts of a model, section and gizmo use the settings located at the top of the form. It is possible to create several planes at the same time.Starting Price: $48 -
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Haltian Empathic Building
Haltian
Haltian Empathic Building is a solution for digital workplaces. Saves you time, provides more choice, is super easy to use, and helps you to be healthier. The Empathic Building digital twin guarantees a superb end-user experience and delivers the key data for operational excellence. The solution combines features such as find and book desks and meeting rooms, find people to co-create and collaborate, navigate to rooms with wayfinding, share your voice and raise important issues. Haltian Empathic Building for return to office after COVID-19 pandemic is the optimal solution that is easy to use, includes a safe environment for collaboration, optimization of space, removal of frictions, and employee empowerment.Starting Price: €4.99/month/desk -
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4Industry
4Industry
4Industry allows your workers and machines to achieve true world-class manufacturing, exponentially improving your OEE. By capturing data with our Continuous Improvement process, your Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) is guaranteed to become a better version of itself, every day. The 4Industry Suite includes a full manufacturing engagement layer (Anomalies, Deviations, RCFA, Counter Measures, Improvements), automated by smart workflows and offering unlimited expandability thanks to ServiceNow’s platform integration capabilities! 4Industry mission statement is: “Helping our customers achieve world class manufacturing by creating innovative solutions”. This is represented when we look at the 4Industry platform. Mobile focussed, new features that improve operator experience and help our customer achieve higher production with less safety incidents. -
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Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Sterison Technology
The next digitalization era is here. Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT) involves collecting and analyzing sensor-generated data to support equipment monitoring and maintenance, production process analytics and control, and more… -Industrial smart, connected products -Equipment utilization monitoring -Real-time industrial asset tracking and management -Connected supply chain management -Predictive maintenance -Production quality control -Defects Analysis System -Inventory management -Employee monitoring We guarantee a smooth transition towards Industry 4.0, by ensuring the step-by-step transformation of every segment of the supply and production chain. Sterison can develop a cost-effective IIoT software from scratch, using Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud services or open-source IoT platforms enabling sensor data collection and analytics, IIoT device connectivity, control and management.Starting Price: $5/Month/Signal -
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ruffus
ruffus
Ruffus is a computation pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics. Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort. Suitable for the simplest of tasks. Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive. No "clever magic", no pre-processing. Unambitious, the lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well. Ruffus is available under the permissive MIT free software license. This permits free use and inclusion even within proprietary software. It is good practice to run your pipeline in a temporary, “working” directory away from your original data. Ruffus is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines. Ruffus requires Python 2.6 or higher or Python 3.0 or higher.Starting Price: Free -
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InfiConnector
Infilock Inc.
A middleware that is installed on a range of gateways and connects equipment to InfiIoT and popular Internet of Things(IoT) or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) clouds. It securely connects various devices (e.g., PV panels, battery energy storage, HVACs, EV stations, compressors, and boilers) through industrial protocols (Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet) and cellular networks (LTE and 5G). InfiConnector is configurable from cloud services to collect data from devices and sensors and prepare data for data analysis and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud applications. InfiConnector provides a code-less edge computing and rule engine interface that configures any machine to machine, diagnostic, alerting, and log management services in a few minutes. The light middleware requires 512MB RAM, 1 core CPU, and 16GB disk. It is compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 and upper.Starting Price: $10/month/license -
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Logbookr
Logbookr
The aircraft logbook (also known as a technical logbook, flight folio, or journey log in some parts of the world) is outdated. You can install Logbookr on your crew's iPad, or use it right on your phone, and it allows you to enter flight times, defects, and ECTM data right from your device on the go. WiFi or data not required, you can sync the data when you are back on the ground or in the office. Entering a snag sends an email to maintenance so everyone is up to speed at all times. Logbookr works from any computer, phone, iPad, or other smart devices. Enter flights, defects, and ECTM data right from the cockpit. The aircraft screen shows which aircraft are ready for dispatch and how long until the next maintenance due. Also, any defects reported will show the aircraft as not ready for dispatch until you note they have been rectified.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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CAD Exchanger
CADEX
CAD Exchanger technologies help software developers and end-users to work, share and collaborate on 3D data, which can come in any format, from any source, on any platform. APPLICATION FOR END-USERS • CAD Exchanger Lab. View, analyze and convert 3D data on desktop. SDKs & TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS • CAD Exchanger SDK. C++, C#, Java, Python libraries for applications and SaaS solutions. • CAD Exchanger Batch. Light-weight command-line tool for batch conversions in corporate or cloud environments. We are proud to have customers from Fortune-100 companies and feel honored to contribute to today’s leaders’ projects: Tesla in the automotive industry, Apple in consumer electronics, NASA in space exploration, Amazon in the delivery business and many others. • 250K+ CAD Exchanger Lab end-users • 1M+ CAD Exchanger SDK enabled end-users • 110+ countriesStarting Price: $590/per year -
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K-Display Convert
Kubotek
No matter where they come from K-Display® Convert will get CAD files ready to be read with the tools you have. The programs require no additional CAD software licenses. Beyond just straight pass-through of data, K-Compare Convert allows filtering out objects by simply hiding the parts you don't want in the output file. Powered by next-generation Kubotek Kosmos technology, K-Display employs full multi-threaded processing guaranteed to bring a new level of speed when opening larger files. K-Display Convert has versions supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux. Count on these programs to translate all the MCAD files that come your way into formats you can use. Simple display commands and options for 3D models. Check distances, surface areas, and solid volumes. Save as STEP, IGES, ACIS, STL, and PDF files. Licenses ready for purchase in our web store.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Wings 3D
Wings 3D
Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Originally inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, Wings 3D has been developed since 2001, when Björn Gustavsson (bjorng) and Dan Gudmundsson (dgud) first started the project. Richard Jones (optigon) maintained Wings and coded many new features between 2006 and 2012. Wings 3D is currently maintained by Dan with the help of the great community. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. Wings 3D is written in Erlang, an open-source, functional programming language distributed by Ericsson. Wings 3D gets its name from the Winged Edge Data Structure (WEDS). This is the data structure used to store the adjacency relationships between edges, faces, and vertices in a Wings 3D model. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.Starting Price: Free -
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Model Predictive Control Toolbox
MathWorks
Model Predictive Control Toolbox™ provides functions, an app, Simulink® blocks, and reference examples for developing model predictive control (MPC). For linear problems, the toolbox supports the design of implicit, explicit, adaptive, and gain-scheduled MPC. For nonlinear problems, you can implement single- and multi-stage nonlinear MPC. The toolbox provides deployable optimization solvers and also enables you to use a custom solver. You can evaluate controller performance in MATLAB® and Simulink by running closed-loop simulations. For automated driving, you can also use the provided MISRA C®- and ISO 26262-compliant blocks and examples to quickly get started with lane keep assist, path planning, path following, and adaptive cruise control applications. Design implicit, gain-scheduled, and adaptive MPC controllers that solve a quadratic programming (QP) problem. Generate an explicit MPC controller from an implicit design. Use discrete control set MPC for mixed-integer QP problems.Starting Price: $1,180 per year
