Engineering, Scientific & CAD/CAM Software Industry Competitors

Molecular modeling software plus applications to help individuals with disabilities equals Simulations Plus. The company is a leading provider of applications used by pharmaceutical researchers to model absorption rates for orally dosed drug compounds. Its Words+ subsidiary provides augmentative communication software and input devices that help people with disabilities use computers....

20-20 Technologies can help you envision the perfect home or office. The company offers computer-aided design and sales software used in the planning of residential and commercial interiors. Users can start with a blank floorplan and customize it at will, choosing from a library of products, and the software provides a variety of views of the project, including 3D renderings....

3D Nature (also known as 3DN) provides photorealistic terrain modeling, visualization, rendering, and animation software. 3DN's World Construction Set is a suite for three-dimensional landscape modeling, rendering, and animation. The company's Visual Nature Studio suite extends the capabilities of World Construction Set while streaming workflow for geographic information system users....

Accubid Systems can help you accurately pin down project costs. The company provides software used by contractors to estimate project costs, manage change orders, and track time and material billing. Accubid has used acquisitions to expand its product line to include aWeb-based project management software and computer-aided design (CAD) add-on products for electrical contractors using Autodesk's popular AutoCAD software....

Actify provides software that makes it possible for designers and engineers to view, measure, and annotate 2-D or 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) files of any format. Its SpinFire packages and other applications can be purchased and downloaded from the company's Web site....

Ah, madam, I'm ADAMA. ADAMA Engineering develops software used for geotechnical engineering tasks, such as analyzing stress and settlement of embankments, soil slopes, and earth walls. The company has developed programs for the Federal Highway Administration, Tensar Earth Technologies, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, among other clients....

Addinsoft provides its XLSTAT software (which is used by both corporate clients and home users) for tasks such as data analysis and statistical analysis. The company's package is an add-in for Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet application -- hence the Addinsoft corporate moniker....

Agilent EEsof EDA, a division of Agilent Technologies, specializes in electronic design automation (EDA) software for radio-frequency integrated circuits and other analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The division includes the company's Singapore Microelectronics Modeling Center, where engineers develop software device models for customers....

Aldec provides mixed-language simulation and advanced design tools, primarily for engineers working with application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The company was founded in 1984 by CEO Stanley Hyduke....

Founded in 1985, Altair Engineering is a product design consulting and technology company that provides software and services to clients which have included Boeing, Caterpillar, Ford Motor, General Electric, Motorola, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, and the US Departments of Defense and Energy....

Altium develops and sells computer-aided design software for creating printed circuit boards and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips. The company was founded in 1985 as Protel International, went public in Australia in 1999, and changed its name to Altium in 2001....

American Innovations develops software that petroleum, water, and natural gas pipeline operators use to manage functions such as risk assessment and corrosion data analysis. Its services include web-based remote monitoring and control, automatic meter reading, and alarm point monitoring....

Anadigm helps companies design good old transistors that use analog systems. Its library of field programmable analog array (FPAA) paradigms uses a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easier to configure all kinds of analog circuits. The same tool has software for testing the devices created....

Ansoft has answers for engineers who design electrical hardware, including high-performance devices and systems like cellular phones, satellite communications equipment, computer circuit boards, and motors. The company's electronic design automation (EDA) software analyzes electromagnetic interaction and helps design and test devices such as integrated circuits, antenna and radar systems, and microwave components....

ANSYS helps designers and engineers around the world really visualize their ideas. With the company's software, developers and engineers can see a simulation of their design concept on their desktop computer before a prototype is built. The computerized models are analyzed for their response to combinations of such physical variables as stress, pressure, impact, temperature, and velocity....

Apache Design Solutions makes sure new semiconductor designs have integrity -- power integrity and signal integrity, that is. The company's physical design and verification software packages see to that. Apache's tools ensure that chip designs will function properly, not losing or garbling signals, nor operating at a high temperature that could cause the chip to fail....

Aras can help you arrange all sorts of new products on the virtual drawing board. The company provides product lifecycle management (PLM) software used to organize data on new products being designed and existing products that might be redesigned. Freudenberg-NOK, Ingersoll-Rand, Rolls-Royce, and the U.S....

Arena Solutions provides software that helps to manage the product development cycle. It offers the Arena PLM (product lifecycle management) suite over the Internet as a hosted service. Customers include Align Technology, Intuit, and Mechanical Technology....

Atrenta makes collaborative software for the semiconductor and electronics industries -- its SpyGlass predictive analysis products help engineers identify design problems in integrated circuits. SpyGlass was originally developed at Interra Systems, which spun off Atrenta in 2001....

Avery Design Systems provides Verilog-based functional verification software for simulating chip designs. Verilog is a hardware description language used by semiconductor developers to shorten the design cycle. The company specializes in verifying designs for Parallel ATA/Serial ATA components and for PCI Express communications interfaces....