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Newsletter for April 2008

This month’s issue highlights the Physical Modeling Consortium Networking Session at the SAE Congress.  Also, if you didn’t have a chance to attend a webinar from the new e-Symposium Series, the recorded versions are now available. Watch for more from the e-Symposium Series coming soon. Be sure to access the latest additions to the Maplesoft Application Center. These include Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Sensitivity, Cross Conduction in Modern Power MOSFETs, and many others!

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News & Announcements
Physical Modeling Consortium Networking Session at the 2008 SAE World Congress

The SAE World Congress brings together the best minds of the automotive industry. This year’s venue is the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan from April 14-17. During the 2008 SAE World Congress Maplesoft will host a Physical Modeling Consortium Networking Session. This is an ideal opportunity for you to find out more about the Consortium and to meet peers who share the same interest in innovative automotive design techniques. Whether your goal is to stay on top of the latest developments or find a forum to share your ideas and concerns, the PMC will help you get in touch with industry leaders at the forefront of modeling innovation.

For more information about the 2008 SAE World Congress or to learn more about the Physical Modeling Consortium, please click here.

 

Streaming Video Webinars

e-Symposium Series - Physics-based Plant Modeling for Automotive Control Design
In this one-hour web seminar, Dr. Ken Butts of the Toyota Technical Center, USA will present some of the physical modeling challenges facing the company and its vision for the future development of Rapid Plant Modeling methodologies based on symbolic computation.


e-Symposium Series - Advanced Research Techniques in Mechatronics: Vehicle Dynamic Modeling in Steer-By-Wire Systems
This e-Symposium presents the work of Dr. Venkat Krovi, of the State University of New York, and his innovative application of new design software tools to accelerate the model development process and simultaneously increase model fidelity.

 

Application Center Highlights
Conduction Loss
Author:  Alan Elbanhawy
It is estimated that personal computers (PCs), notebook computers and servers annually use in excess of 500 million synchronous buck DC-DC converters each year. This number alone justifies an in-depth analysis of this very popular topology to enable engineers to refine their design process and save energy and help the environment at the same time.
Rubik's Cube Maplet
Author: Mr. Andrey S. Revenko

Bresenham’s Algorithm
Author: Dr. Zbigniew Radziszewski

Solution of a System of Differential Equations
Author: Dr. Yasuyuki Nakamura

Effect of Source Inductance on MOSFET Rise and Fall Times
Author: Alan Elbanhawy

Eigenvalue Problem of the Orthotropic Bimaterial with Semi-infinite Crack
Author: Dr. Tomas Profant
Cross Conduction in Modern Power MOSFET
Author: Alan Elbanhawy

Itô formula
Author: Duong Ngoc Hao

Stats Calculator
Author: Mr. Troy Searcy




Maplesoft Webinar Series

Maple Connectivity Tools for Simulink®/MATLAB®
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT.
This Webinar will introduce you to the power of the Maple product line for rapidly developing solutions and deriving highly efficient engineering system models for easy implementation in your simulation tool-chain.  Generate optimal design parameters using automated optimization tools, and import Simulink models into Maple for analysis and simplification.

Prototype and Simulate Vehicle Systems Using Maplesoft’s Design Engineering Tools
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT.
More than ever, automotive engineers are faced with the need to develop high-fidelity vehicle systems under shorter production cycles. Maplesoft’s new approach to modeling engineering systems allows engineers to formulate the dynamic equations for multi-body, multi-domain systems found in many vehicle components. This Webinar gathers together several experts in the field of vehicle dynamics to present and discuss this approach in the context of Maplesoft’s domain-specific product line.


For further details or to enroll in a Webinar please click here.

Missed a Webinar? Check out our recorded Webinar section where you can browse and view recordings of past Webinars.




Maplesoft in the Press
Here are some highlights of this past month's press coverage.

Software builds system models
Electronic Product Design
When automotive engineers need high accuracy and real-time performance, they need math software to build system models for applications such as hardware in the loop testing.

Model development and optimization in interactive computing environments
Central European Journal of Operations Research
In this article, Dr. Janos D Pinter discusses Maple and the Global Optimization Toolbox from Maplesoft.

Beyond the Skies
Scientific Computing World
In an article about the use of scientific software in the field of astronomy, the magazine discusses the use of Maple in modeling the magnetosphere.

In addition to these articles, check out the Media Center  for all the latest coverage on Maplesoft.

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Upcoming Events
SAE 2008
April 14-17, 2008
Cobo Center, Detroit, MI


 

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