Alternatives to ModelSim
Compare ModelSim alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to ModelSim in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from ModelSim competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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OrCAD X
Cadence Design Systems
OrCAD® X is a unified PCB design software platform that offers significant improvements in ease of use, performance, automation, data management, and collaboration. Our cloud-enabled product suite contains applications for schematic, simulation, and PCB layout. OrCAD X Capture is one of the most widely used schematic design solutions for the creation and documentation of electrical circuits. PSpice® is our virtual SPICE simulation environment integrated within Capture that allows you to prototype your designs using the industry-leading, native analog, mixed-signal, and advanced analysis engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verification solution. Our two PCB layout environments, OrCAD X PCB Editor and OrCAD X Presto, allow designers to easily collaborate between ECAD/MCAD teams and build better PCBs faster. OrCAD X Presto is a new user-friendly option offering a simpler interface for quick-turn PCB design.Starting Price: $107 USD/month -
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ChipAgents
ChipAgents
ChipAgents is an agentic AI chip design and verification platform that embeds intelligent AI agents into electronic design automation workflows to help hardware engineers produce and verify semiconductor designs faster, more reliably, and with less manual effort. It leverages advanced generative and agent-based AI to interpret design specifications, generate RTL (Register-Transfer Level) code from natural language or PDFs, auto-complete Verilog/SystemVerilog code, create testbenches, analyze simulations, and pinpoint bugs across large codebases, helping reduce verification cycles and accelerate time-to-market. ChipAgents’ agents can work within engineers’ existing code editors or EDA flows to automate routine tasks such as coverage gap analysis, waveform debugging, functional verification, and root-cause analysis of failed tests by combining design logic, logs, and waveform data into structured insights, freeing teams from tedious manual cycles. -
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Siemens Precision
Siemens
Precision offers vendor-independent FPGA synthesis. It provides best-in-class performance and area, high-reliability design capabilities, and tight links to simulation and formal equivalency checking. Precision's products are tightly integrated with Siemens' FormalPro LEC for equivalency checking and HDL Designer for design capture and design verification using ModelSim/Questa. Precision RTL, Siemens's entry-level FPGA synthesis product, offers best-in-class quality results with a vendor-independent FPGA synthesis solution. Many space and mil-aero applications require specialized FPGAs with built-in protection from SEEs. NanoXplore introduces new FPGAs targeting this market. Precision Synthesis, in close partnership with NanoXplore, is the first to offer full synthesis support for the NG-Ultra device. Precision has seamless integration with the NXmap P&R tool to complete the design flow from RTL to gates to bitstream generation. -
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RFPro Circuit
Keysight
Go beyond traditional RF simulation to design, analyze, and verify radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Achieve confidence with steady-state and nonlinear solvers for design and verification. Wireless standard libraries accelerate the validation of complex RFICs. Model components on silicon chips accurately. Optimize designs with sweeps and load-pull analysis. Simulate RF designs in the Cadence Virtuoso and Synopsys Custom Compiler environments. Increase performance using Monte Carlo and yield analysis. Assess error vector magnitude (EVM) for the latest communication standards early in the design phase. Use the latest foundry technology immediately. Monitoring system IC specifications such as EVM via RF simulation early in the RFIC design phase is a must. Simulations include effects of layout parasitics, complex modulated signals, and digital control circuitry. With Keysight RFPro Circuit, you can simulate in both the frequency and time domain. -
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Quartus® Prime Design Software is a powerful, integrated FPGA development environment built to scale with complex designs. It supports the full design flow, from design entry and synthesis to optimization, verification, and simulation. The platform is engineered to deliver advanced performance on devices with millions of logic elements. Quartus Prime includes comprehensive tools for timing, power, and thermal analysis to ensure reliable and efficient designs. Its modular editions allow teams to choose the right level of capability for their project needs. The software streamlines development with automation, debugging, and visualization features. Quartus Prime enables engineers to move from concept to deployment with confidence.
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Symbiotic EDA Suite
Symbiotic EDA
Find bugs early and raise the confidence in your design by using formal checks and formal properties. Apply formal early on in the design process wherever it makes sense for your application. Use formal cover traces to further your design understanding and answer hard questions about the design under test. Apply formal safety properties to produce shorter and more insightful traces than simulation could ever generate. Employ formal proofs to ensure correctness of your design, use mutation cover to gain confidence in your simulation-based verification strategy, and speed up writing of test cases by guiding the process with formal cover traces. Unbounded and bounded verification of safety properties. Reachability-check and bounds-detection for cover properties -
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Analog FastSPICE Platform
Siemens
Foundry-certified, the AFS Platform delivers nm SPICE accuracy, 5x faster than traditional SPICE and >2x faster than parallel SPICE simulators. Offering the fastest nm circuit verification platform for analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. Now includes new eXTreme technology. For large post-layout circuits, the new AFS eXTreme technology delivers over 100M-element capacity and is 3x faster than post-layout simulators. Supports all leading digital solvers. Best-in-class usability, allowing maximum reuse of verification infrastructure. Advanced verification and debug capabilities to improve verification coverage. Improved design quality, and time-to-market. SPICE accurate, high-sigma verification. 1000x faster than brute-force simulation. Easy to use, and deploy. AFS eXTreme technology is available at no additional cost. -
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Microwave Office
Cadence Design Systems
Microwave Office supports the design of RF passive components such as filters, couplers, and attenuators, as well as active devices operating under small-signal (AC) conditions such as low noise and buffer amplifiers. The linear configuration provides simulation of S-parameters (Y/Z/H/ABCD), small-signal gain, linear stability, noise figure, return loss/voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and more, as well as real-time tuning, optimization, and yield analysis. All E-series Microwave Office portfolios include synchronous schematic / layout editors, 2D/3D viewers, comprehensive libraries of high-frequency distributed transmission models, surface-mount vendor component RF models with footprints, measurement-based simulations, and RF plotting. Microwave Office PCB enables linear and nonlinear RF circuit design with the robust APLAC HB simulator and its powerful multi-rate HB, transient-assisted HB, and time-variant simulation engine, supporting analysis of RF/microwave circuits. -
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The use of Ansys Electronics solution suite minimizes testing costs, ensures regulatory compliance, improves reliability, and drastically reduces your product development time. All this while helping you build the best-in-class and cutting-edge products. Leverage the simulation capability from Ansys to solve the most critical aspects of your designs. With our solutions, we help you solve the most critical aspects of your product designs through simulation. If you work with antenna, RF, microwave, PCB, package, IC design, or even an electromechanical device, we provide you with the industry gold standard simulators. These solutions help you solve any electromagnetic, temperature, SI, PI, parasitic, cabling, and vibration challenges in your designs. We build on this with complete product simulation, allowing you to achieve first-pass success designing an airplane, car, cellphone, laptop, wireless charger, or any other system.
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PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS)
Keysight Technologies
PathWave ADS offers integrated design guidance via templates to help you get started faster. Extensive component libraries make it easy to find the part you want. Automatic sync with layout allows you to visualize the physical layout while making schematic designs. Data helps teams visualize whether their designs meet specifications. The data display and analytics capabilities in PathWave ADS produce graphs, charts, and diagrams to give you design confidence. Quickly accelerate your design with wizards, design guides, and templates. The complete design flow includes schematic, layout, circuit, electro-thermal, and electromagnetic simulations. Signal and power integrity are becoming more important as frequency and speed increase in printed circuit boards (PCBs). Losses associated with transmission line effects can cause failures in electronic devices. Modeling traces, vias, and interconnects are necessary to simulate the board accurately. -
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Synopsys Saber
Synopsys
Synopsys Saber is a solution of high-precision virtual prototyping tools for multi-domain power electronics design that consists of SaberEXP, SaberRD, and SaberES Designer. Saber allows an engineer to run complex simulations with varying component tolerances, generate best and worst-case results, and easily conduct “what-if” studies. Industry-leading accuracy lowers development costs by reducing the number of prototypes required. SaberEXP is a piecewise linear (PWL) quick converging simulator for power electronics, with seamless export into SaberRD. SaberRD adds an integrated design and simulation environment for mechatronic systems, with best-in-class analysis for power electronics validation. SaberES Designer is a wiring harness tool for optimizing wiring layout, materials, and costs, and can be integrated with industry CAD systems. Utilize systematic robust design methods to meet aggressive performance and reliability goals in compressed schedules. -
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Questa Verification
Siemens
Questa Verification is the first verification platform with a UVM-aware debug solution that provides engineers essential information about the operation of their dynamic class-based testbenches in the familiar context of source code and waveform viewing. The Questa verification solution is an assemblage of technologies, methodologies, and libraries for modern ASIC and FPGA designs. Questa continues to evolve in response to the growing complexity of SoC designs. Insight and updates on concepts, values, standards, methodologies, and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them. The Verification Horizons publication provides concepts, values, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them. -
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Ansys HFSS
Ansys
Multipurpose, full wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, components, interconnects, connectors, ICs and PCBs. Ansys HFSS is a 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays, RF or microwave components, high-speed interconnects, filters, connectors, IC packages and printed circuit boards. Engineers worldwide use Ansys HFSS software to design high-frequency, high-speed electronics found in communications systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), satellites, and internet-of-things (IoT) products. HFSS’s unmatched capacity, coupled with indisputable accuracy, enables engineers to address RF, microwave, IC, PCB and EMI problems for most complex systems. The Ansys HFSS simulation suite consists of a comprehensive set of solvers to address diverse electromagnetic problems. -
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VectorCAST
VECTOR Informatik
VectorCAST is a comprehensive test-automation suite designed to streamline unit, integration, and system testing across the embedded software development lifecycle. It automates test case generation and execution for C, C++, and Ada applications, supports host, target, and continuous-integration environments, and offers structural code coverage metrics to help validate safety- and mission-critical systems. It integrates with simulation workflows such as software-in-the-loop and processor-in-the-loop, links to model-based engineering tools like Simulink/Embedded Coder, supports white-box testing features like dynamic instrumentation, fault injection, and test harness generation, and can combine static-analysis results (e.g., from Polyspace) with dynamic test coverage for full-lifecycle verification. Key capabilities include linking requirements to tests, managing and reporting coverage across configurations. -
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DipTrace
DipTrace
PCB Layout is a high-level engineering tool for board design featuring smart manual routing of high-speed and differential signals, shape-based autorouter, advanced verification, and wide import/export capabilities. Design requirements are defined by net classes, class-to-class rules, and detailed settings by object types for each class or layer. DipTrace features design process with real-time DRC, which reports errors on the fly before actually making them. The board can be previewed in 3D and exported for mechanical CAD modeling. Design rule check with in-depth detailing, net connectivity verification, and comparing to source schematic ensure maximum quality of the final product. DipTrace is a single environment with direct circuit-to-board converting, updating from schematic, and back annotation. Nets are divided to net classes with custom settings and class-to-class rules. Through and blind/buried vias are organized to via styles.Starting Price: $75 per license -
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PathWave RFIC Design
Keysight Technologies
Go beyond traditional RF simulation to design, analyze, and verify radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Achieve confidence with steady-state and nonlinear solvers for design and verification. Wireless standard libraries accelerate the validation of complex RFICs. Before taping out an RFIC, verification of IC specifications via RF simulation is a must. Simulations include effects of layout parasitics, complex modulated signals, and digital control circuitry. With PathWave RFIC Design, you can simulate in both the frequency and time domain and bring your designs to and from Cadence Virtuoso. Accurately model components on silicon chips. Optimize designs with sweeps and load-pull analysis. Integrate RF designs in the Cadence Virtuoso environment. Increase performance using Monte Carlo and yield analysis. Simplify debugging with safe operating area warnings. Utilize the latest foundry technology immediately. -
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PathWave RF Synthesis
Keysight Technologies
Analyze RF and microwave circuits and systems with fast simulation and powerful optimization tools. Explore performance trade-offs with automatic circuit synthesis technology. PathWave RF Synthesis (Genesys) provides entry-level functionality suitable for all RF and microwave circuit board and subsystem designers. Identify RF design errors missed by traditional spreadsheet calculations with PathWave Circuit Design. With this entry-level design environment — including circuit, system, and electromagnetic simulators — you will gain confidence in your design reviews before hardware realization. Just a few mouse clicks and you can watch as your matching network is synthesized and optimized automatically. Then, transfer the design to PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) for inclusion into a more complex design. -
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CircuitStudio
Altium
Quickly design advanced board layouts with interactive routing and the intelligent Situs™ Autorouting technology. Effortlessly collaborate with your mechanical design team with Native 3D™ PCB editing and STEP MCAD support. Accurately simulate and ship advanced electronics with integrated XSPICE analog & digital simulation. Quickly transform your ideas into reality with hierarchical schematic capturing and constraint-driven PCB layout technology. Instantly begin work on your next design project with an easy-to-use interface and customizable workflow. Take advantage of your complete design history with Altium designer and EAGLE compatibility. Never miss another deadline with real-time component pricing and availability data from hundreds of suppliers. Quickly create custom parts in a snap with included parametrics and datasheets from the Circuitstudio content library.Starting Price: $495 per license -
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PrimeSim HSPICE
Synopsys
PrimeSim HSPICE circuit simulator is the industry's "gold standard" for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundry-certified MOS device models with state-of-the-art simulation and analysis algorithms. With over 25 years of successful design tape outs, HSPICE is the industry's most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator. For on-chip simulation, analog designs, RF design, custom digital design, standard cell design and characterization, memory design and characterization, and device model development. For off-chip signal integrity simulation, silicon-to-package-to-board-to-backplane analysis and simulation. HSPICE is a key part of the Synopsys analog/mixed-signal (AMS) verification suite, a solution built to address the most critical issues in AMS verification. HSPICE is the industry’s “gold standard” for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundry-certified MOS device models with state-of-the-art simulation and analysis algorithms. -
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Simulink
MathWorks
Design and simulate your system in Simulink before moving to hardware. Explore and implement designs that you wouldn’t otherwise consider – without having to write C, C++, or HDL code. Explore a wide design space by modeling the system under test and the physical plant. Your entire team can use one multi-domain environment to simulate how all parts of the system behave. Package and share your simulations with collaborators, suppliers, and clients. Reduce expensive prototypes by testing your system under conditions that are otherwise too risky or time-consuming to consider. Validate your design with hardware-in-the-loop testing and rapid prototyping. Maintain traceability from requirements to design to code. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code by hand, automatically generate production-quality C and HDL code that behaves the same way as the model you created in Simulink. Then deploy it directly onto your embedded processor or FPGA/ASIC.Starting Price: $860 per year -
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RoboLogix
Logic Design Inc.
RoboLogix is a state-of-the-art robotics simulation software package that is designed to emulate real-world robotics applications. With RoboLogix, you teach, test, run, and debug programs that you have written yourself using a five-axis industrial robot in a wide range of practical applications. These applications include pick-and-place, palletizing, welding, and painting, and allow for customized environments so that you can design your own robotics application. With RoboLogix, the user can run the simulator to test and visually examine the execution of robot programs and control algorithms. RoboLogix is ideal for students as well as robot designers and engineers. It is the only robotics simulation tool that provides engineering-level simulation at such an affordable price. The simulation software allows for verification of the reachability, travel ranges, and collisions.Starting Price: $295 one-time payment -
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Synthelyzer™ ECAD Plugin
BQR Reliability Engineering
Effortless Electrical Stress Analysis, MTBF Calculation, Component Derating, and FMECA Analysis Within Your ECAD During Board Design. Key features: • Utilizes cutting-edge AI technology for robust and efficient design solutions. •Seamless integration with leading ECAD software for streamlined workflow and real-time analysis. •Includes automated circuit stress calculators to accelerate design processes. •Performs detailed analysis of electrical stress derating for components. •Utilizes thermal simulation results to enhance derating accuracy. •Provides thermal resistance data and stress metrics for 3D thermal simulations. •Identifies EOS violations with Pareto analysis and detailed reports on over-stress and over-design. •Recommends design adjustments to resolve overstress issues effectively. •Implements derating guidelines managed for optimal component performance. •Automates FMECA analysis -
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SiLogy
SiLogy
Our next-generation web platform empowers chip developers and verification engineers to design and debug 10x faster. Build and run thousands of tests in parallel at the push of a button with Verilator. Seamlessly share test results and waveforms with anyone in your organization, tag coworkers directly on signals, track test and regression failures. We use Verilator to compile Dockerized simulation binaries and distribute test runs across our compute cluster. Then we collect the results and log files and optionally rerun failing tests to generate waveforms. With Docker, we can ensure that test runs are consistent and reproducible. SiLogy makes chip developers more productive by enabling faster design and debug times. Before SiLogy, the state-of-the-art for debugging a failing test involved copying lines from log files, debugging from waveforms on a local machine, or rerunning a simulation that might have taken days to run. -
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OpenModelica
OpenModelica
OpenModelica is an open source modeling and simulation environment based on the Modelica language, intended for industrial and academic use. Its development is supported by the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC), a non-profit organization. The platform aims to provide a comprehensive Modelica modeling, compilation, and simulation environment distributed in both binary and source code forms for research, teaching, and industrial applications. OpenModelica supports the Modelica Standard Library and is compatible with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is designed to facilitate the development and execution of both low-level and high-level numerical algorithms, making it suitable for control system design, solving nonlinear equation systems, and developing optimization algorithms applied to complex applications. The platform also offers tools for debugging, visualization, and animation, enhancing the user experience in modeling and simulation tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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Siemens Solido
Siemens
The Solido variation-aware design, IP validation, library characterization, and simulation solutions, powered by proprietary AI-enabled technologies, are used by 1000s of designers at the top semiconductor companies worldwide. Integrated suite of AI-accelerated SPICE, Fast SPICE, and mixed-signal simulators designed to help customers dramatically accelerate critical design and verification for next-generation analog, mixed-signal, and custom IC designs. Providing the industry's fastest, most comprehensive integrated IP validation solution, providing complete, seamless IP QA from design to tape-out, across all design views and IP revisions. Comprehensive AI-powered design environment for nominal and variation-aware verification of custom IC circuitry enabling full design coverage in orders-of-magnitude fewer simulations, with the accuracy of brute-force techniques. Providing fast, accurate library characterization tools powered by machine learning. -
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Calibre Design Solutions
Siemens
Calibre Design Solutions is the industry leader for IC verification, delivering a complete IC verification and DFM optimization EDA platform that speeds designs from creation to manufacturing, addressing all sign-off requirements. Calibre Design Solutions delivers the most accurate, most trusted, and best-performing IC sign-off verification and DFM optimization in the EDA industry. The platform provides foundries, IDMs, and fabless companies with comprehensive, innovative verification technology for all nodes and processes. Calibre reliability verification performs checks against electrical and physical design rules and optimizes layouts to reduce the risk of early or catastrophic IC failures. The Calibre shift-left strategy provides pioneering tools and techniques that reduce signoff iterations and time to tape out while ensuring quality results. Cloud computing offers 24/7/365 access to highly scalable clusters of high-performance hardware specifically tuned for EDA tasks. -
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AWR Design Environment Platform
Cadence Design Systems
The Cadence AWR Design Environment Platform accelerates RF/microwave product development cycles with design automation that enhances engineering productivity and reduces turnaround time. This seamlessly integrated platform empowers engineers with advanced high-frequency circuit and system simulation coupled with in-design electromagnetic (EM)/thermal analyses for manufacturing-ready high-frequency IP, offering unmatched efficiency and precision. Designed to enhance engineering productivity, the user interface is powerful and intuitive. It offers smart, customizable design flows that cater to the specific needs of today's high-frequency semiconductor and PCB technologies. A unified design capture system facilitates a front-to-back physical design flow. Electrical and layout design entries are dynamically linked, ensuring that components placed in an electrical schematic automatically generate a synchronized physical layout. -
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Altair Compose
Altair Engineering
Analyzing data, developing algorithms, or creating models - Altair Compose is designed to bring your ideas forward. Altair Compose is an environment for doing math calculations, manipulating, and visualizing data, programming, and debugging scripts useful for repeated computations and process automation. Altair Compose allows users to perform a wide variety of math operations including linear algebra and matrix manipulations, statistics, differential equations, signal processing, control systems, polynomial fitting, and optimization. The broad set of native CAE and test result readers accelerates system understanding and works with Altair Activate® to support model-based development, for multi-domain and system of systems simulations. Altair Embed® completes the model-based design portfolio with automated code generation, allowing for the testing and verification of embedded systems. -
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COMSOL Multiphysics
Comsol Group
Simulate real-world designs, devices, and processes with multiphysics software from COMSOL. General-purpose simulation software based on advanced numerical methods. Fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. Complete modeling workflow, from geometry to postprocessing. User-friendly tools for building and deploying simulation apps. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. Create physics-based models and simulation applications with this software platform. -
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HX CODESYS
Hitachi
The CODESYS OPC UA Server is a scalable solution for runtime systems that optimal fits the resources of the controller. The component is platform-independent and is very easy to integrate into the current runtime system. The product is targeting OEM customers and enables the integration of OEM-specific objects via the integrated provider interface. Various functions such as automatic input completion and assistance, syntax error check, debug and simulation allow you efficient development. Compiler for optimized powerful machine code of HXCPU. Project trees allow you collective management of devices, tasks, and programs of application. -
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Simcenter Flotherm
Siemens
With more than 34 years of development and user feedback, Simcenter Flotherm is the leading electronic cooling simulation software solution for electronic thermal analysis. It shortens development at IC package, PCB, and enclosure level through to large systems such as data centers. Improve electronics thermal management for reliability with fast, accurate electronics cooling CFD simulation from initial pre-CAD exploration to final verification. Simcenter Flotherm integrates with the electronics development workflow as a tool for thermal engineers to perform simulations and provide timely accurate results and feedback to other engineering functions. It supports thermal management, and simulation-based decision-making from early-stage architecture to final thermal design verification. This aids shortened development and also helps to eliminate risks of costly reliability-related warranty costs or any late-stage re-spins. -
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MachineWorks
MachineWorks Limited
Gain instant access to market with MachineWorks’ libraries for CNC Simulation and Polygonica’s libraries for 3D Modeling. MACHINEWORKS unique Boolean engine provides fast and accurate Material Removal, Collision Detection and Machine Simulation for Machine Tools, CNC Controllers, Desktop and Cloud-based CAM, CMM, Optical Inspection, Additive Manufacturing and Robotics software. MACHINEWORKS LIBRARIES provide simulation and verification for any type of CNC machining. Leading CAM software suppliers, CNC Controller and CNC Machine Tool manufacturers from across the world integrate MachineWorks’ industry-proven APIs into their software applications in order to create systems with complex simulation, real-time verification and look ahead collision detection in the full machine environment. Trusted by Dassault Systèmes, Hexagon, Autodesk, 3D Systems, DMG MORI, Goodway, OKUMA, Doosan, Fidia and HEIDENHAIN and many more companies across the world. -
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PlayerZero
PlayerZero
PlayerZero is an AI-driven predictive quality platform designed to help engineering, QA, and support teams monitor, diagnose, and resolve software issues before they impact customers by deeply understanding complex codebases and simulating how code will behave in real-world conditions. It applies proprietary AI models and semantic graph analysis to integrate signals from source code, runtime telemetry, customer tickets, documentation, and historical data, giving users unified, context-rich insights into what their software does, why it’s broken, and how to fix or improve it. Its agentic debugging agents can autonomously triage, root cause analyze, and even suggest fixes for issues, reducing escalations and accelerating resolution times while preserving audit trails, governance, and approval workflows. PlayerZero also includes CodeSim, an agentic code simulation capability powered by the Sim-1 model that predicts the impact of changes. -
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MapleSim
Waterloo Maple
From digital twins for virtual commissioning to system-level models for complex engineering design projects, MapleSim is an advanced modeling tool that helps you reduce development time, lower costs, and diagnose real-world performance issues. Remove vibrations with better control code, not hardware upgrades. Diagnose root-cause performance issues with detailed simulation results. Validate new design performance before physical prototyping. MapleSim is an advanced system-level modeling and simulation tool that applies modern techniques to dramatically reduce model development time, provide greater insight into system behavior, and produce fast, high-fidelity simulations. Scale and connect as the needs of your simulations grow more complex. Take your designs further with our flexible modeling language. Combine components across different domains in a virtual prototype. Solve tough machine performance problems. -
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MPLAB Mindi Analog Simulator
Microchip Technology
MPLAB® Mindi™ Analog Simulator reduces circuit design time and design risk by simulating analog circuits prior to hardware prototyping. The simulation tool uses a SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation environment, with options to use SPICE or piecewise linear modeling, that can cover a very wide set of possible simulation needs. This capable simulation interface is paired with proprietary model files from Microchip to model specific Microchip analog components in addition to generic circuit devices. This simulation tool installs and runs locally on your PC. Once downloaded, no Internet connection is required, and the simulation run time is not dependent on a remotely located server. The result is fast, accurate analog circuit simulations. Run the simulation tool directly on your own PC; once installed no Internet connection is required. -
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IMSverify
IMS Software
IMSverify provides a unique NC verification solution to check the postprocessed code that will run on the machine. This goes beyond simple APT or CL file verification within the CAM system. Verification of the actual G-code that will run on the machine provides you with complete confidence that the part will be cut correctly. Complex machining operations and multi-axis machines increase the risk for programming errors that can result in incorrect or incomplete material removal, interference between machine components and fixtures, and damage to the part and/or machine. Full machine simulation with clash detection allows for accurate analysis of the complete machining environment. This includes all machine components, fixtures, tools, and tool holders. True solids-based simulation gives you the most accurate verification of material removal. With IMSverify, you import stock and fixture information as solids from your CAM system. -
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L-Edit Photonics
Siemens
Design your photonic integrated circuit in a layout-centric flow. The designer can implement their design using either a drag-and-drop or a script-driven methodology. Both of those are in the same full custom IC design layout editor that drives the physical verification and tape-out processes. L-Edit Photonics enables the fast creation of a photonic design using a drag-and-drop methodology in an IC layout editor, without having to write a single line of code. Once the design is completed, a netlist can be extracted for photonic simulation. PIC design in a complete IC layout editor, Create a layout without writing a line of code. Supports a layout-centric design flow where a schematic is not needed. Schematic flow optional with S-Edit. A simulation netlist can be created as input into a photonic simulator. Photonic simulation is supported through integration with our partners. Photonic PDKs are available from multiple foundries. -
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RoboCell
Intelitek
RoboCell integrates ScorBase's robotic control software with interactive 3D solid modeling simulation, accurately replicating the dimensions and functions of Intelitek robotic equipment. This integration allows students to teach positions, write programs, and debug robotic applications offline before executing them in an actual work cell. RoboCell enables experimentation with various simulated work cells, even if the physical setups are unavailable in the lab. Advanced users can design 3D objects and import them into RoboCell for use in virtual work cells. The software operates in three modes: Online mode for controlling the robotic cell, Simulation mode for managing the virtual robotic cell in a 3D display, and offline mode for verifying ScorBase programs. Key features include dynamic 3D simulation with tracking of robots and devices, simulation of robot movements and gripper part manipulation, and support for peripheral axes like conveyor belts, XY tables, rotary tables, etc. -
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QX Simulator
Quantum Computing Simulation
The realization of large-scale physical quantum computers appears to be challenging, alongside the efforts to design quantum computers, significant efforts are focusing on the development of useful quantum algorithms. In the absence of a large physical quantum computer, an accurate software simulation of quantum computers on a classical computer is required to simulate the execution of those quantum algorithms and to study the behavior of a quantum computer and improve its design. Besides simulating error-free execution quantum circuits on a perfect quantum computer, the QX simulator can simulate realistic noisy execution using different error models such as the depolarizing noise. The user can activate the error model and define a physical error probability to simulate a specific target quantum computer. This error rate can be defined based on the gate fidelity and the qubit decoherence of the target platform. -
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Xcode
Apple
Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment for building, testing, and distributing apps across Apple platforms. It provides powerful tools for coding, debugging, profiling, and simulation in one unified workspace. Predictive code completion and coding intelligence help developers write cleaner, faster code. Xcode supports advanced debugging and performance analysis to identify issues early. Built-in simulators allow developers to prototype apps across Apple devices without physical hardware. Testing frameworks ensure apps meet quality and performance standards. Xcode streamlines the entire app development lifecycle from idea to deployment.Starting Price: Free -
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CAESIM
Adaptive Research
Adaptive Research is pleased to announce the immediate release of the CAESIM 2024 simulation platform, providing advanced computational fluid dynamics modeling with multi-physics capabilities. The new software release provides new tools and capabilities that optimize the modeling process and provide the CFD engineer with fast simulation solutions.Starting Price: $1295/annual standard -
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Ansys Discovery
Ansys
Ansys Discovery features the first simulation-driven design tool combining instant physics simulation, high-fidelity simulation and interactive geometry modeling in a single easy-to-use experience. By combining interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind product, Discovery allows you to answer critical design questions earlier in the design process. This upfront approach to simulation saves time and effort on prototyping as you explore multiple design concepts in real time with no need to wait for simulation results. Ansys Discovery answers critical design questions early in your process with speed and accuracy. Boost productivity and performance by eliminating long waits for simulation results. Discovery lets engineers focus on innovation and product performance. By answering critical design questions early in the process, thus decreasing engineer labor and physical prototyping costs, Ansys Discovery allows for a ROI boost across your organization. -
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NeST Performance Monitoring Tool
NeST Avionics
NeST provides a wide range of services to the aerospace industry to develop both ground-based and airborne systems. Our capabilities include development of software and hardware, verification and validation, simulation, continuous engineering, and reengineering. Performance Monitoring Tool (PMT) effectively monitors aircraft performance and fuel consumption to enable airlines to control their cost thus providing an added edge in a fiercely competitive market. A state-of-the-art Aircraft and Simulator data visualization tool developed by SimAuthor. We are authorized dealers for FlightViz. -
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SIMulation Workbench
Concurrent Real-Time
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation is a trusted, cost-effective alternative for executing tests on actual equipment. It is ideal for proving designs and performing tests of complex equipment such as in automobiles, airplanes, missiles, satellites, rockets and locomotives. Testing is executed in a virtual test scenario instead of on the road or in real-devices. Much of the test environment is replaced by mathematical models, so components can be inserted into a closed loop. This makes for tests that are reproducible, systematic and fast, as well as more reliable. Concurrent hardware-in-the-loop simulation solutions feature the SIMulation Workbench real-time modeling environment running on the RedHawk Linux operating system. SIMulation Workbench provides a complete framework that makes it easy to develop and execute hardware-in-the-loop simulations in real-time. -
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feynn
feynn
feynn is an AI-powered strategic intelligence platform designed to help leaders make confident, forward-looking decisions. It researches your entire business ecosystem, including competitors, suppliers, and industry dynamics, using source-verified insights with zero hallucinations. feynn connects multi-entity research into a unified strategic view in minutes. The platform enables users to model possibilities by running scenario simulations with specialized AI agents. Its decision engine aggregates insights, evaluates trade-offs, and recommends clear next actions with full traceability. feynn emphasizes clarity over speed, ensuring every strategic move is grounded in reality. By combining foresight, verification, and simulation, feynn helps organizations stay ahead of unseen risks. -
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CoppeliaSim
Coppelia Robotics
CoppeliaSim, developed by Coppelia Robotics, is a versatile and powerful robot simulation platform utilized for rapid algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and digital twin creation. It features a distributed control architecture, allowing each object or model to be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients (Python, Lua, Java, MATLAB, Octave, C, C++, Rust), or custom solutions. The simulator supports five physics engines, MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, and Vortex Dynamics, for fast and customizable dynamics calculations, enabling realistic simulation of real-world physics and object interactions, including collision response, grasping, soft bodies, strings, ropes, and cloths. CoppeliaSim provides forward and inverse kinematics calculations for any type of mechanism.Starting Price: $2,380 per year -
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Ansys Fluent
Ansys
Ansys Fluent is the industry-leading fluid simulation software known for its advanced physics modeling capabilities and industry leading accuracy. Ansys Fluent gives you more time to innovate and optimize product performance. Trust your simulation results with a software that has been extensively validated across a wide range of applications. With Ansys Fluent, you can create advanced physics models and analyze a variety of fluids phenomena—all in a customizable and intuitive space. Accelerate your design cycle with this powerful fluid simulation software. Ansys Fluent contains the best-in class physics models and can accurately and efficiently solve large , complex models. Ansys Fluent unlocks new potentials for CFD analysis. A fluid simulation software with fast pre-processing and faster solve times to help you be the fastest to break into the market. Fluent’s industry leading features enable limitless innovation, while never making a compromise on accuracy. -
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Ansys PathFinder
Ansys
Ansys PathFinder-SC is a high-capacity solution to help you plan, verify and sign-off IP and full-chip SoC designs for integrity and robustness against electrostatic discharge (ESD). Ansys PathFinder-SC identifies and isolates the root causes of design issues that can cause chip failure from charged-device model (CDM), human body model (HBM), or other ESD events. It’s high-capacity, cloud-native architecture can enlist thousands of compute cores for fast full-chip turnaround. PathFinder-SC is certified by major foundries for current density checks and ESD sign-off. PathFinder-SC’s integrated data modeling, extraction and transient simulation engine is an end-to end solution for ESD verification. The single-pass use model reads industry-standard design formats, sets up ESD rules, extracts the RCs for the power network, and performs ESD simulations to analyze root causes and provide fix and optimization feedback, all within a single tool. -
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WhiteHaX
WhiteHaX
WhiteHaX cyber readiness verification is trusted by some of the largest cyber insurance carriers with tens of thousands of licenses deployed, WhiteHaX is a cloud-hosted, automated, cyber-readiness verification (pen-testing) platform. The WhiteHaX cyber-insurance version provides a no-install, no-impact, quick (under 15-min) verification of a business' cyber-readiness by simulating several threat scenarios against the business' deployed security infrastructure, including network perimeter defenses and endpoint security & controls. A few examples of these simulated threat scenarios include firewall attacks, user-attacks from internet such as drive-by downloads, email phishing/spoofing/spamming, ransomware, data-exfiltration attempts and others. WhiteHaX Hunter is a purpose-built platform, specifically designed to remotely hunt for server-side indicators of compromises (SIoCs) on applications and other servers deployed on-premise or in the cloud. -
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OpenCppCoverage
OpenCppCoverage
OpenCppCoverage is an open-source code coverage tool for C++ under Windows. The main usage is for unit testing coverage, but you can also use it to know the executed lines in a program for debugging purposes. Support compiler with a program database file (.pdb). Just run your program with OpenCppCoverage, no need to recompile your application. Exclude a line based on a regular expression. Coverage aggregation, to run several code coverages and merge them into a single report. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or higher for all editions including the Express edition. It should also work with the previous version of Visual Studio. You can run the tests with the Test Explorer window.Starting Price: Free
