October 30, 2009 -- Maplesoft, a provider of software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics applications, has released several products designed to help engineers better manage the complexity of engineering modeling and simulation problems. The company says its MapleSim physical modeling platform , together with a collection of new toolboxes, enables fast model development, advanced analysis, and the creation of complex multi-domain models.
The company maintains that, in the rapidly transforming world of engineering, physical modeling is evolving as a fundamental and critical engineering process in response to the increasing complexity of emerging design challenges. To that end, the Maplesoft solution suite includes the following products:
MapleSim 3: MapleSim, Maplesoft’s core physical modeling product, has a rich modeling platform which has been greatly enhanced in this release. Modeling capabilities have been extended with new component libraries for hydraulics and electrical machines and refined solvers that handle greater model complexity. In addition, new user interface features lead to faster development time and smoother workflow. MapleSim’s core symbolic technology produces optimized equation-based models, which provide the best possible real-time performance in key application areas such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Built on a foundation of a powerful symbolic computation engine, MapleSim offers an extensive range of advanced analysis tools, supporting sensitivity analysis, optimization, and advanced visualization techniques.
MapleSim Control Design Toolbox: The MapleSim Control Design Toolbox provides a set of essential control design tools that extend MapleSim’s plant modeling capabilities to support control design. This toolbox takes advantage of the symbolic approach for designing, analyzing, and testing control systems, which results in greater flexibility and accuracy. By developing plants and controllers together in the MapleSim environment, the development process is accelerated, and tool-switching cost is reduced, maintains the company. MapleSim also increases the reusability of controller designs through built-in technical documentation tools.
MapleSim LabVIEW Connector: This toolbox integrates MapleSim's rich modeling environment into the popular LabVIEW real-time platform from National Instruments (NI). Engineers using LabVIEW can quickly develop and optimize complex engineering system models in the intuitive visual modeling environment of MapleSim. This new toolbox joins the MapleSim Simulink Connector (formerly known as the MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox), which provides enhanced connectivity with the Simulink and Real-Time Workshop platforms.
“This expanded solution is a critical part of Maplesoft’s mission to empower the engineering community with all the necessary pieces to tackle emerging and increasingly complex design challenges,” comments Jim Cooper, president and CEO, Maplesoft. “Physical modeling is certainly driving the designs of tomorrow. These products provide better integrated toolchains and powerful tools to gain maximum benefit from physical modeling quickly. Expert modelers can do more, faster, and traditional techniques can easily be modernized.”
Furthermore, as part of its improved engineering solution offering, Maplesoft has also announced a significant expansion of its application engineering division. This group has been expanded to assist customers with modeling issues in a timely manner and to rapidly deploy new techniques in engineering products.
Single-user professional licenses of MapleSim 3 are available for US $2,995, and MapleSim LabVIEW Connector for US $995. For its initial release, the MapleSim Control Design Toolbox will be included with MapleSim 3 at no extra cost.
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