Will Silicon Valley’s disruptive innovation capabilities extend to car body manufacturing? In addition to pioneering the use of huge presses with 6,000 to 9,000 tons of clamping pressure, Tesla is reportedly exploring other new solutions to slash the cost of electric vehicles. Technologies being investigated include 3D printing, industrial sand, tailor-made alloys. According to the report, Musk’s goal is to find a way to cast the car’s underbody in one piece.
EDA and IP updates: Zuken, Altair, Ultra Librarian, Intel
Zuken has introduced a three-stage approach to AI-powered PCB design within its CR-8000 platform. The Autonomous Intelligent Place and Route product line introduces a new platform for AI-based place and route, which evolves in stages. “Basic Brain” learns from Zuken’s library of design examples and existing design expertise, and routes the design utilizing the product’s Smart Autorouter based on learned approaches and strategies. In the second stage, Zuken’s “Dynamic Brain” learns from the customer’s PCB designers, utilizing past design examples and integrating them into AI algorithms. The third and final stage is the “Autonomous Brain”, an AI-driven capability that self-improves with each project.
The Ultra Librarian CAD model library is now available to Altair users in several Altair ECAD verification and multiphysics solutions, including PollEx, SimLab, and Altair One UDE. Ultra Librarian gives users instant access to more than 16 million symbols, footprints from a cloud-based library.
And Ultra Librarian has developed a new AI-driven CAD modeling engine to drastically reduce the time it takes to build CAD models.
Intel is launching a new soft processor in the Nios V family targeting its FPGAs: the Nios V/c compact microcontroller – a free, soft-core IP, based on the Risc-V architecture. It will initially target all devices supported in Intel Quartus Prime Pro software with a roadmap to many devices supported in Quartus Prime Standard software.
