Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of Target Compiler Technologies, a privately held company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, that provides software tools to design and program application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). ASIPs complement industry-standard processor architectures by enabling designers to implement their own highly specialized software programmable engines for compute-intensive digital signal and data plane processing. The acquisition of Target strengthens Synopsys' existing ASIP tools portfolio while bringing a world-class team of ASIP experts into the company. "As today's SoCs rely more on heterogeneous multi-core architectures, designers are turning to ASIPs to implement their unique data plane and digital signal processing requirements," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing of IP and Systems at Synopsys. "Target's leading IP Designer and MP Designer software tools perfectly complement Synopsys' offerings for ASIP developers, enabling design teams to develop ASIPs that meet their performance, power, and flexibility requirements more efficiently and with less risk."

Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, has announced the acquisition of GT STRUDL®, a computer-aided structural engineering (CAE) software system, from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation of Atlanta, Ga. As part of the acquisition, the 10 skilled staff and management team members of the Computer-Aided Structural Engineering Center (CASE Center) have joined Intergraph. GT STRUDL is widely used in a variety of industries such as nuclear power and nuclear defense industries, conventional power generation, general plant structures, offshore structures, marine applications, general civil engineering and infrastructure structures. In the United States nuclear industry, GT STRUDL is widely used by major companies in the design, maintenance and upgrading of safety-critical structures such as turbine buildings, boiler buildings, equipment support structures, pipe support systems and other related civil engineering structures. The acquisition of GT STRUDL will strengthen Intergraph's existing suite of engineering analysis solutions for the power, process and offshore industries. Developed by the CASE Center within the School

Graphics Systems Corp., a provider of SolidWorks 3D engineering solutions, was recognized as the “Top Reseller for Overall Performance in North America” by SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes at the SolidWorks World 2014 Conference held January 26-29, 2014 in San Diego, CA.   Graphics Systems Corp. received the top honor for their excellence in sales for all of the integrated SolidWorks engineering software solutions.  These technologies are used by the most successful engineering & manufacturing companies for: 3D mechanical CAD (computer-aided design), design simulation, product data management, 2D and 3D electrical CAD, and technical communications.     Bertrand Sicot, Chief Executive Officer CEO, SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes congratulated Graphics Systems Corp. on their achievement:  “The Graphics Systems team is committed to solving customer issues, building expert technical teams, and developing knowledgeable sales teams for all of the Dassault Systèmes  SolidWorks solutions. Their success also comes from working closely with their customers to understand their specific issues to provide

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Guillermo Gualino has been named vice president and treasurer. Gualino, who has been assistant treasurer, replaces Robert Cantrell, who will move to Keysight Technologies, the new electronic measurement company to be formed by the separation of Agilent into two publicly traded companies. In his new position, Gualino will be responsible for Agilent's Treasury function. He will report to Agilent Senior Vice President and CFO Didier Hirsch. "Guillermo brings solid financial expertise and experience to his new role," said Hirsch. "I am confident in his abilities to help us shape the financial profile and structure of the new Agilent as we become a company focused on the life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets." Gualino has held increasingly responsible financial positions across corporate, financial consulting and venture capital sectors. Prior to joining Agilent in 2011, he was assistant treasurer at Flextronics International. His previous experience includes work with Ernst &

Yunique Solutions is pleased to announce the creation of its Certified Partner Program designed to elevate service and support to YuniquePLM users. Certified partners will offer local business support to YuniquePLM customers and their business partners, deliver software plug-ins and help ensure complex, enterprise-wide implementations exceed customer expectations. “Our Certified Partners are committed to delivering on Yunique’s primary goal of ensuring an exceptional customer experience,” said Bill Brewster, vice president of Global Sales and Marketing for Gerber’s Yunique Solutions business. “By leveraging our partners’ local expertise and product knowledge, we are able to respond to the nuanced requirements of customers in every corner of the world. The Yunique Solutions Certified Partner Program is another reason why YuniquePLM is the ideal solution to improve collaboration and efficiency across a global network of offices and supply chain partners.” Robert Olsen of ACG Nyström, Gerber’s partner agent in Sweden, said, “Being a Yunique Solutions certified

RuleDesigner is a collaborative PLM suite of applications designed to offer an integrated working environment to the enterprise and its stakeholders. As a modular solution, RuleDesigner can be successfully used to serve the needs of numerous corporate functions including service management. Indeed, It has the capacity to cover all requests for maintenance and service and to automate advancement and progress flows through configuration processes. RuleDesigner Help-Desk tool supports and ensures the traceability of information flow coming from the service and involving different corporate departments. By using tickets, customer service staff can track several reports covering non-conformity processes, claims, technical field services, reminders, parts demand and any other request that can be configured to better satisfy the demand of customers. Reports can be handled using different process flows along which it is possible to perform both automatic procedures and configuration processes. Using RuleDesigner, it is enough to identify the customer, the product serial

MachineWorks Ltd is pleased to announce the release of Polygonica, Version 1.1. Large Solid Support Polygonica has always been able to process large models very quickly but the latest version includes automatic simplification for out-of-core solids. This enables Polygonica's powerful algorithms, including Boolean operations, solid healing, offsetting, and slicing, to be performed on arbitrarily sized meshes. The threshold for simplification is by default 6 million triangles, although this can be changed by the user, and MachineWorks has successfully processed STL files of over 40GB. The maximum size of the mesh is limited only by available disk space, and does not impact the performance or stability of the process. Support for Colours The STL file format is the de-facto standard in Additive Manufacturing, but has well known limitations, particularly when it comes to colour. The new release of Polygonica has support for arbitrary data defined on the mesh which can be used to represent colour as

Dassault Systèmes today announced Release 2014x of its 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s on-premise and on-the-cloud portfolio of Industry Solution Experiences spanning twelve separate industries, from aerospace to financial services. Early adopters, after months of using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, indicate that its user experience is easy to learn and use, and the platform’s cloud-based social collaboration has brought enormous benefits to their business. “It took us 20 minutes to get up and running on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” said Jonathan Mallie, Principal of SHoP Architects and Managing Principal of SHoP Construction. “It is a fun environment to operate in. It is very intuitive. All of the modelling is on line, on the Cloud and available to the factory floor immediately.” For more details on SHoP Architects and SHoP Construction’s experience with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its social collaboration capabilities, click here. “With SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual 2014x on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we were able to do four process revisions by the time our competitors were

AVEVA announced today that Sembawang Shipyard Pte. Ltd., a global leader in shipbuilding with more than four decades of ship refit and conversion experience, has migrated from Tribon M3 software to AVEVA Marine for its engineering, design and production projects. AVEVA’s legacy Tribon M3 has long been the software of choice at Sembawang Shipyard but, after a thorough evaluation, the company decided to upgrade to AVEVA Marine, which proved to be the best and most complete solution for its current and future shipbuilding requirements. AVEVA Marine is widely used in many successful marine and offshore projects, and is known for its reliability. AVEVA Marine has several key technological advantages over the older M3 software. These include direct integration with AVEVA PDMS™ on a single scalable platform, which drives efficiencies across the entire engineering and design process. Combining both hull and outfitting also enables Sembawang to further improve their construction and production. Sembawang can benefit

aPriori today announced that it has been selected by Whirlpool Corporation. Whirlpool will use aPriori to further automate its product cost estimating processes, drive global consistency in costing practices and provide a central cost management database for use by cross functional product development teams.  One of aPriori’s unique differentiators is that the software can leverage both 3D solid CAD models and engineering knowledge and experience to automatically generate detailed manufacturing analysis and cost estimates that quantify the impact of changes to product design, materials, manufacturing processes, volumes and location in real time.  This flexible approach to generating cost estimates was one of the key reasons why Whirlpool selected aPriori.  In addition, the software enables users to leverage product cost data hosted in other enterprise applications to calculate costs and communicate product cost information between all functional organizations involved in product definition and delivery. This includes the import of complex engineering Bills of