In case you haven’t heard, Dassault Systèmes today announced the intent to acquire CST (Computer Simulation Technology AG), the market technology leader for electromagnetic (EM) and electronic simulation. CST will be joining the SIMULIA brand as we take a significant step forward in fulfilling our multiphysics and multiscale technology vision to harmonize product, nature and life. You can read the official 3DS news release here.
CST (www.cst.com) was founded in 1992, and its headquarters are in Darmstadt, Germany (near Frankfurt). It employs nearly 300 people across 20 offices located around the world, and has established a strong and diversified market presence, with more than 2000 customers across several industries (High-Tech, Transportation & Mobility, Aerospace & Defense, Life Sciences and more). Many of these companies are recognized leaders in their own industries. CST solutions span the full spectrum of EM frequencies and length scales, from low frequency applications such as electric motors, to high frequency applications like wireless communications.
Why this is important – Electronics, electrical devices, and electromechanical products are becoming more and more pervasive across multiple industries. The internet of things (IoT) is estimated to grow to nearly 50 billion objects by the year 2020 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things). Autonomous cars, smart homes, medical devices and wearable electronics are just a few examples of widely varying applications. Each of these generally have Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Compatibility (EMC) issues that need to be addressed, along with Environmental Effects (E3). Just as with solids/structures and CFD, accurate and robust simulation is the way to tackle and solve these EM design challenges nowadays, thereby minimizing expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes.
What’s also becoming more relevant is that the ever-increasing complexity of modern designs means you can’t just consider EM simulation by itself. EM issues may be coupled to other physical phenomena. Consider for instance a wearable, flexible electronic device. The desired flexibility of the device can affect both its durability as well as its EM performance, and so both must be considered together during the design process.
Integrating CST technology and solutions into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will enable such simulations to be readily carried out as part of everyday design activities. In fact, in our partnership with CST, which began a little more than a year ago, we put together a smart watch demonstration illustrating how existing SIMULIA solutions can be linked with those from CST in a meaningful way (https://swym.3ds.com/#post:39791).
Now that CST is becoming part of the 3DS and SIMULIA family, there’s much more we can accomplish together to meet your growing simulation needs, so stay tuned!
