Aerospace and automotive electronics engineers face a variety of design challenges with an increasing proliferation of electronics products in new designs. In the automotive industry, manufacturers are using advanced electronics in the design of sophisticated e ngine and safety controls, as well as in the design of navigation, audio systems and LED lighting. In the aerospace and defense sectors, companies use advanced electronics systems in the design of a vionics controls and airborne communication, as well as in surveillance and radar and guidance systems.
In both the aerospace and automotive industries, engineers face the challenge of designing for harsh operating conditions with significant swings in humidity levels and large temperature variations ranging between 50C to -20C. Furthermore, the electronics products in these industries have to meet high safety and reliability standards, as well as demonstrate relatively long product lifecycles. Finally, both industries are faced with strong weight restrictions due to the increasing demands to reduced fuel consumption. ANSYS offers automotive and aerospace electronics designers a variety of engineering simulation tools including, ANSYS Icepak and ANSYS Iceboard for thermal management, ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Structural for mechanical reliability and stress analysis and ANSYS Emag and ANSYS Multiphysics for electromagnetic simulation.
Thermal management can be analyzed by conducting package, board or system level CFD simulation, including natural and forced convection and radiation heat transfer. Using these tools from ANSYS, the joule heating effects in package or board substrates can be examined and their effects can be incorporated in the overall system's thermal management.
Thermal management of automotive electronics using ANSYS Icepak |
Thermal management of a radar dome using ANSYS Icepak |
For mechanical simulation, ANSYS products offer a comprehensive solution to conduct structural analysis with a full complement of nonlinear and linear elements, and a complete set of element behavior and material laws. ANSYS Fatigue can be used to simulate product performance under anticipated cyclic loading conditions over the product's anticipated lifespan. With the ANSYS complete set of implicit and explicit solvers, engineers can simulate the mechanical stresses that develop during shock and vibration, or during an explicit drop test.
Random vibration analysis on airborne electronics |
ANSYS electromagnetic products can be used to perform radar and antenna design. Also these tools can be used to analyze high-speed interconnect design and for conducting signal integrity studies at both the component, and board level.
Electromagnetic simulation on a microstrip interconnect using ANSYS Multiphysics |
The breath and depth of capabilities in ANSYS software products enable you to conduct comprehensive multiphysics simulation and optimize your product's design, performance and reliability in a harsh operating environment with strict weight limitations.
As an integrated simulation driven product design solution, ANSYS products help reduce design and manufacturing costs by reducing uncertainty and the need for extensive physical testing.
