Industries We Explore

Electronics

The electronics industry is shaping all aspects of our lives—communication, working, education, entertainment—we are increasingly dependent on electronic products to make our lives easy, comfortable, and enjoyable.

The proliferation of electronic products is accelerating the need to enhance product performance while lowering size and weight, conserving energy, and conforming to government regulatory requirements. Today’s engineers must frequently improve existing products, as well as develop new products, to ensure the industry remains competitive in the global scale.

To ensure the electronics and semi-conductor industry address its challenges, ANSYS software offers engineers with the capabilities to simulate different variations in real-world scenarios, improve the certainty of product design, and remove barriers to innovation.

Here are the application areas in the industry:

  • Automotive electronics
  • Defense and aerospace electronics
  • Computer and storage devices
  • Consumer electronics
  • Power electronics
  • Networking and communications
  • Semi-conductors

Automotive Electronics

Most of today’s high-tech automobiles depend on on-board electronics and electromechanical systems to meet the evolving industry needs. Engineers in this sector are using state-of-the-art electronics for engine and safety controls, developing complex navigation applications, building revolutionary audio systems, and integrating other complex electronics components on automobiles. Therefore, engineers encounter a wide range of development challenges.

ANSYS software suite empowers automotive electronics engineers to overcome the multiple physics inefficiencies that can hinder the development of quality, reliable products. With ANSYS simulation tools, engineers can develop products that work well in extreme climatic conditions, guarantee long product lifecycles, and ensure compliance with stringent industry standards.

Defense and Aerospace Electronics

To cope with the modern warfare challenges, engineers in the defense and aerospace electronics sector are compelled to build sturdy products capable of withstanding harsh climatic conditions, lowering energy consumption, complying with strict reliability standards, and meeting long product lifecycle needs.

ANSYS tools enable engineers to perform extensive multiphysics simulation in a virtual environment and cost-effectively foster the technological advancements in the defense and aerospace electronics sector. This way, developing sophisticated electronics appliances and electronic components of various applications, such as avionics and airborne communication devices, is optimized.

Computer and Storage Devices

Computers span virtually every industry in the world—from businesses to banking to agricultural automation products—desktops, laptops, and other computing devices are integral for making work easy and fostering adoption of innovative products.

The wide-ranging uses of computers drive the continued demand for their efficiency and high-performance. Engineers developing computers always aim to provide robust air-cooling systems, lower device sizes without compromising consumer quality expectations, and reduce costs.

In the storage devices sector, engineers aim to address its various challenges, such as how to achieve efficiency of cooling systems, optimized sizing, low energy consumption, and reduction of costs.

ANSYS provides computers and storage devices engineers with a wide range of simulation tools that enable them to address various challenges and realize products promise.

Here are the main applications areas:

  • Electromagnetics
  • Mechanical and thermomechanical
  • Thermal management
  • Power management

Consumer Electronics

Consumer electronics consist of an extensive range of electronic or digital equipment used for common-day duties and activities, such as entertainment devices (televisions, portable music players, etc), communications devices (mobile phones, etc), and office gadgets (computers, printing machines, etc).

Engineers in the consumer electronics sector are compelled to meet the rising demand for competitive, energy-efficient, affordable, and low-weight products.

With ANSYS simulation tools, engineers are able to forecast how complicated components will perform under real-world situations—allowing them to develop innovative solutions capable of meeting consumers’ needs.

Power Electronics

In the power electronics and industrial equipment sectors, engineers want to achieve optimal product efficiency, high reliability, minimal energy consumption, and compliance with government regulations.

By using the suite of ANSYS tools, engineers can carry out extensive multiphysics simulations, which lead to optimized product design, reduced design cycle, and high quality and innovative products.

ANSYS provides a wide variety of simulation tools to empower engineers address the challenges when developing different power and industrial equipment, such as power converters, motor drives, transformers, and coils.

Networking and Communications

The networking and communications sector is playing a vital role in modern communications. The development of various products— such as networking devices, routers, and switches—have transformed our society and greatly escalated our ability to communicate easily and affordably.

Engineers in this sector encounter various challenges, including need to lower energy consumption, deliver optimized designs, improve power density, enhance data rates, and achieve strict electromagnetic compatibility requirements.

ANSYS multiphysics tools allow engineers to guarantee optimal delivery of high-bandwidth data, achieve efficient thermal performance, reduce costs, and minimize EMI/EMC challenges during product development.

Semiconductors

In the semiconductors sector, engineers are increasingly under pressure to minimize products sizes of various devices—such as flip chips, MCMs, and stack dies—while addressing escalating geometric design complexities, and complying with tightening government regulations.

ANSYS multiphysics simulation software offers engineers with the capabilities to optimize product designs, achieve reduced energy consumption requirements, and realize expected performance objectives.

Furthermore, with ANSYS simulation, engineers and designers in the semiconductors sector can realize faster ROI because of fewer physical prototypes and ability to address challenges early in the design cycle.