Software Title Tags

Cadence tools enable chip design, IC package design and PCB design. Everything from Allegro Design Authoring to Xcellium Parallel Logic Simulation.

The Gaumard Vitals virtual vital signs monitor software simulates the functionality and look of a real patient monitor. This highly customizable software is designed for use in a simulated environment, allowing participants to practice data interpretation, documentation, configuration, and much more.

ADS is a electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital applications.

Build, learn and explore Bayesian networks and other probabilistic graphical models. GeNIe Academic runs under Windows and (with Wine) on macOS and Linux.

Geometrical Analysis of Sections – GAS2.0, provided to users by the American Iron and Steel Institute, is used to model behavior of thin walled automotive beam sections. The unique value of GAS2.0 is in the ability to model plate buckling behavior, and to estimate the load capacity of thin wall sections based on the effective section method. The primary use of GAS2.0 is by the automotive industry during the early stage design of automotive body structure. It is also used to a lesser degree in late stage to mitigate performance issues by recommending section thickness or material grade changes.

Synopsys products focus on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property, and software security and quality. Synopsys supplies tools and services to the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry. Products include tools for logic synthesis and physical design of integrated circuits, simulators for development, and debugging environments that assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems.

Sumo is a powerful, open process source, multipurpose simulation environment developed for environmental models, particularly municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant modelling. A wide range of BNR plant configurations can be simulated in Sumo. Sumo can simulate traditional biokinetic models dynamically or in steady-state, mixed equilibrium-kinetic models and direct algebraic models, depending on the simulation mode.

PLECS® tools can be applied to many disciplines of power electronics engineering. Conceived with a top-down approach in mind, PLECS facilitates the modeling and simulation of complete systems, including power sources, power converters, and loads.

Ansys offers CAE/multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing, and operation. The comprehensive software suite spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that a design process requires.

Surface-water modeling solutions for coastal and riverine environments.

Unity is a game development platform that can be used to build high quality 2D and 3D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR or consoles.

Unreal Engine is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations and visualizations.

Offline programming is the best way to maximize return on investment for robot systems. ABB's simulation and offline programming software, RobotStudio, allows robot programming to be done on a PC in the office without shutting down production, this allows you to perform tasks such as training, programming, and optimization without disturbing the production.

Dymola, Dynamic Modeling Laboratory, is a complete tool for modeling and simulation of integrated and complex systems for use within automotive, aerospace, robotics, process and other applications. Rapidly solve complex multi-disciplinary systems modeling and analysis problems, using Dymola's best-in-class Modelica and simulation technology. Dymola is a complete environment for model creation, testing, simulation and post-processing.

Silvaco offers a full IC-CAD design flow including design capture, circuit simulation, layout design, physical verification, parasitic extraction and reduction, and post-layout analysis including statistical variation, and yield analysis.

STAR-CCM is an all-in-one solution for simulation tools that delivers accurate and effective multidisciplinary technologies in a single integrated user interface.

Jack simulation software helps you address the ergonomic aspects of manual operations during early stages of product design and manufacturing by improving safety, efficiency and comfort of your workplace environment using digital human models.

Amesim is used to assess the functional performance of mechatronic systems using multi-domain system modeling and analysis. It provides domain libraries for fluids, thermodynamics, electrics, mechanics and signal processing.

ProModel is a discrete event simulation and predictive analytics tool, helping provide clarity for your most complex decisions. Accelerate your systems performance while reducing risk with ProModel.

GT-SUITE is the industry-leading simulation tool with capabilities and libraries aimed at a wide variety of applications and industries. It offers engineers functionalities ranging from fast concept design to detailed system or sub-system/component analyses, design optimization, and root cause investigation.

CATIA is the Leading Solution Spanning the Complete Innovation and Development Processes to Imagine, Design, Simulate New Products and Systems for Impactful Customer Experiences toward a more Sustainable World.

Altair® Inspire™ is an intuitive, powerful family of integrated software products that accelerates simulation-driven design throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept to reality, while reducing product time-to-market.

Used early in the design process, Inspire enables the creation of designs focused on both performance and manufacturability. Inspire empowers its users to explore, develop, and manufacture high-performance products in a single, intuitive environment.

The Altair HyperWorks platform, a design and simulation solution, equips every engineer with a comprehensive suite of CAE applications for design and simulation, including FEA, CFD, multi-body dynamics, optimization, electromagnetic analysis, electronic system design, and more.

Software package developed for ME438

Hydrodynamic and Propulsion System Simulation. Quickly analyze vessel speed and power performance. NavCad provides maritime designers with the necessary tools for the optimized selection of suitable propulsion system components.

Utilizing Multibody Dynamics solution technology, Adams runs nonlinear dynamics in a fraction of the time required by FEA solutions. Loads and forces computed by Adams simulations improve the accuracy of FEA by providing better assessment of how they vary throughout a full range of motion and operating environments. This software was formerly known as MSC Adams.

The Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) is designed to simulate the complete hydrologic processes of dendritic watershed systems. The software includes many traditional hydrologic analysis procedures such as event infiltration, unit hydrographs, and hydrologic routing. HEC-HMS also includes procedures necessary for continuous simulation including evapo-transpiration, snowmelt, and soil moisture accounting. Advanced capabilities are also provided for gridded runoff simulation using the linear quasi-distributed runoff transform (ModClark). Supplemental analysis tools are provided for model optimization, forecasting streamflow, depth-area reduction, assessing model uncertainty, erosion and sediment transport, and water quality.

WAMIT® is the most advanced set of tools available for analyzing wave interactions with offshore platforms and other structures or vessels. 

Visual MODFLOW is the industry standard for simulating groundwater flow and contaminant support.

Trucksim delivers the most accurate, detailed, and efficient methods for simulating the performance of multi-axle commercial and military vehicles.

STROBOSCOPE is a general-purpose simulation programming language and system for modeling a wide range of complex processes, such as those in construction, transportation, manufacturing, the health services, etc.

Creo is a fully integrated, 3D CAD solution that allows engineers to seamlessly conceptualize, design, analyze, and validate products. Creo features technologies that empower design engineers to simulate and optimize products for weight, performance, cost, and sustainability, using a wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes. 

PowerFactory is a leading power system analysis software application for use in analysing generation, transmission, distribution and industrial systems. It covers the full range of functionality from standard features to highly sophisticated and advanced applications including windpower, distributed generation, real-time simulation and performance monitoring for system testing and supervision.

Modelon Impact is a cloud-native system simulation software platform. Users can move through layers of sub-systems
– building and analyzing singular or holistic systems. Modelon’s comprehensive physics-based libraries offer thousands of proven models and components spanning a broad range of industries and applications. 

Maxsurf Naval Architecture Software provides integrated tools for hull modelling and optimization, comprehensive stability, motions & resistance prediction, structural modelling, structural analysis, and export to vessel detailing. Maxsurf operates from a single parametric 3D model in order to ensure smooth communication and coordination across various involved in the project.

Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator is a molecular dynamics program from Sandia National Laboratories. LAMMPS makes use of Message Passing Interface for parallel communication and is free and open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Interactive Heat Transfer (IHT) is a software package that facilitates the solution of heat transfer problems. IHT centers around a Workspace where model equations are assembled, a Solver that solves the set of equations and performs parametric studies, and a Browser and Graphing tool that display results.

GHS is a software system for the design and evaluation of all types of ships and floating structures. It addresses flotation, trim, stability, and strength by calculating the forces involved using mathematical and geometrical models of the vessels.

eQUEST was designed to allow you to perform detailed analysis of today's state-of-the-art building design technologies using today's most sophisticated building energy use simulation techniques but without requiring extensive experience in the "art" of building performance modeling.

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption, heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and process loads and water use in buildings.

Delft3D is a integrated modelling suite, which simulates two-dimensional (in either the horizontal or a vertical plane) and three-dimensional flow, sediment transport and morphology, waves, water quality and ecology and is capable of handling the interactions between these processes. The suite is designed for use by domain experts and non-experts alike, which may range from consultants and engineers or contractors, to regulators and government officials, all of whom are active in one or more of the stages of the design, implementation and management cycle.

Coloseum is a simulator for robotic, autonomous systems, built on Unreal Engine (there is an experimental Unity release). It is open-source, cross platform, and supports software-in-the-loop simulation with popular flight controllers. It is a branch off of AirSim.

CarSim is used to simulate the performance of passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks by analyzing vehicle dynamics, developing active controllers, and calculating a car's performance characteristics.

CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development, training, and validation of autonomous driving systems. CARLA provides open digital assets (urban layouts, buildings, vehicles) that were created for this purpose and can be used freely. The simulation platform supports flexible specification of sensor suites, environmental conditions, full control of all static and dynamic actors, maps generation and much more.

AERMOD View is a complete and powerful air dispersion modeling package which seamlessly incorporates the following popular U.S. EPA air dispersion models into one integrated interface: AERMOD ISCST3 ISC-PRIME

ADONIS is Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers. The goal of the ADONIS development is to improve the modeling and computational simulation in geotechnical engineering. 

20-sim is modeling and simulation software package for mechatronic systems. With 20-sim you can enter models graphically, similar to drawing an engineering scheme. With these models you can simulate and analyse the behavior of multi-domain dynamic systems and create control systems.

SolidWorks 3D CAD software offers three packages building in functionality and tiered to best suit the needs of your organization. All packages utilize the intuitive SolidWorks user interface to speed your design process and make you instantly productive.

SolidWorks Premium combines the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional with powerful simulation and design validation toolsets, as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality.

EViews offers academic researchers and students access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modeling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.

Engineers and scientists use the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to simulate designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research. COMSOL Multiphysics® is a simulation platform that provides fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities.

BIOVIA Materials Studio is a complete modeling and simulation environment designed to allow researchers in materials science and chemistry to predict and understand the relationships of a material's atomic and molecular structure with its properties and behavior. Using Materials Studio, researchers are engineering better performing materials of all types, including catalysts, polymers, composites, metals, alloys, pharmaceuticals, batteries and more.

CrystalMaker software provides innovative tools for teaching & research in materials science, solid-state physics, chemistry, mineralogy and crystallography.

• Build, display & manipulate all kinds of crystal and molecular structures.
• Design new materials and relax their structures.
• Animate structural behaviour; generate video for teaching or presentations.
• Simulate diffraction properties for powders and single crystals.

The site license bundle at U-M includes CrystalMaker, SingleCrystal, CrystalViewer, and CrystalDiffract.

Autodesk is best known for AutoCAD, but also develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment. The manufacturing industry uses Autodesk's digital prototyping software—including Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 360, and the Autodesk Product Design Suite—to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using a digital model in the design process. The Revit line of software for building information modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it is built.

Students and educators can get free one-year educational access to Autodesk products and services, renewable as long as they remain eligible. Refer to Terms and Conditions below.