Xilinx, Inc. announced acceleration of system verification with the release of the Vivado® Design Suite 2015.1, featuring major productivity advances  for the development and deployment of  All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs. This release includes the Vivado Lab Edition, accelerated Vivado Simulator and third party simulation flows, interactive clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, and advanced system performance analysis with the Xilinx® Software Development Kit (SDK).

New Vivado Lab Edition The Vivado Lab Edition is a no-cost, lightweight programming and debug edition of the Vivado Design Suite. The Lab Edition includes the Vivado Device Programmer, Vivado Logic and Serial I/O...

Trimble and the Nemetschek Group announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the deployment of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the entire Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. The alliance will emphasize collaborative approaches to design modeling and 5D construction management through data integration between a variety of the companies' products.  

The announcement was made today at the Lake Constance 5D-Conference 2015held this week in Constance, Germany. 

Trimble and Nemetschek will share their extensive global market and technology expertise and collaborate on initiatives to drive a paradigm change in the development and adoption of technologies for...

As the emergence of social media, Cloud, and Big Data continues to fuel the digital evolution, today's digital workplace must drive new levels of employee engagement, operational efficiency and service excellence. To help deliver on this digital transformation, EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced new enhancements across its Documentum portfolio of enterprise content management (ECM) applications, enabling customers to further address next-generation ECM by optimizing current investments as the backbone for new business models.

Latest Enhancements: Productivity, Efficiency, and Agility

The portfolio of products provide best-in-class offerings to solve customer business and content problems:

The latest Documentum 7.2 platform is the fastest and most...

3D Systems announced today that it has received a Gold 2015 Edison Award in the Science/Medical/Dental category for its innovative 3DS Healthcare solutions. The Edison Awards honor is one the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business success, and recognizes excellence in new product and service development, marketing and human-centered design and innovation.

3DS was recognized for its end-to-end digital healthcare solutions, including 3D surgical simulation and training, virtual surgical planning, dental 3D printers, and delivery of 3D printed procedures, implants and patient-specific devices. From the training room to the operating room,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Cartagenia announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Agilent will acquire Cartagenia, a leading provider of software and services for clinical genetics and molecular pathology labs.

Cartagenia, which has offices in Leuven, Belgium, and Boston, Massachusetts, provides software solutions for variant assessment and reporting of clinical genomics data from next-generation sequencing and microarrays. Uniquely geared to routine clinical labs, Cartagenia’s solutions are FDA-registered as exempt Class I Medical Devices in the U.S. and as Class I Medical Devices in Europe. The Cartagenia Bench platform enables technicians, lab directors and clinicians to visualize, assess and...

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it will broadcast its first quarter fiscal 2016 financial results conference call live via its website Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Autodesk will host a live webcast call atwww.autodesk.com/investors. An audio replay webcast and podcast will also be available after 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on our website atwww.autodesk.com/investors . For more information, please call Autodesk Investor Relations at 415-507-6705

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ModuleWorks announced the latest release of its CAM components, ModuleWorks 2015.04, the first major update of 2015.  Each ModuleWorks release contains many new and enhanced features across the product range. This latest version includes new features for 5-Axis, 3-Axis, Port Machining and Simulation.

ModuleWorks is at the forefront of 5-Axis machining and simulation technology, providing the toolpath and simulation technology that powers many of the leading CAM systems available around the world today.

Highlights of the new release are shown below:

5-Axis

ModuleWorks SWARF now offers a new stripe milling feature which allows the user to create multiple intermediate slices...

In two separate but related efforts to advance the future of digital and physical creation, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to embed its 3D printing platform in Windows 10, and that it intends to make its 3D modeling software interoperable with Microsoft's mixed reality environment, Microsoft HoloLens.

In the first initiative, Autodesk will embed its Spark 3D printing software platform in Windows 10. This effort will provide Windows users with direct access to optimized and more reliable 3D printing experiences that streamline the additive manufacturing process for a variety of software, material, and printer choices. Autodesk will make the Spark...

Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. Power Systems Company, a leading supplier of equipment and services for the power generation market, has selected the Aras Innovator suite for enterprise PLM to serve as the backbone for the company’s new global engineering data IT framework. The move to Aras PLM underscores the drive at Hitachi Power Systems to optimize manufacturing efficiency and product quality.

After evaluating several PLM solution suites, Hitachi Power Systems selected Aras for its native Web platform technology, overall system flexibility and extensive customization capabilities. Hitachi Power Systems plans...

Agilent Technologies Inc. will release second-quarter fiscal 2015 financial results after the stock market closes on May 18. The company will host a live webcast of its investor conference call in listen-only mode.

Date: Monday, May 18

Time: 1:30 p.m. PDT

Web access: www.investor.agilent.com

Listeners may log on and select “Q2 2015 Agilent Technologies Inc. Earnings Conference Call” in the “News & Events – Calendar of Events” section. The webcast will remain on the company site for 90 days.

In addition, a telephone replay of the conference call will be available at approximately 5:30 p.m. PDT on May 18 through May 25 by...