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 ...

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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 ...

Meet Luca Carlino, a Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) Scientist from Charles River Laboratories. where techniques are used for the rapid assessment of chemical libraries in order to guide and speed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finite element analysis (FEA) close finite element analysis (FEA)The use of computer simulation software to virtually test the engineering performance of designs. is the use of computer simulation ...

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, ...