3D SSPP software predicts static strength requirements for tasks such as lifts, presses, pushes, and pulls. The program provides an approximate job simulation that includes posture data, force parameters and male/ female anthropometry. Output includes the percentage of men and women who have the strength to perform the described job, spinal compression forces, and data comparisons to NIOSH guidelines. The user can analyze torso twists and bends and make complex hand force entries. Analysis is aided by an automatic posture generation feature and three dimensional human graphic illustrations.

3DSSPP may be used for academic research, provided the research is not for profit.

3DSSPP will be temporarily offered through XenApp. You can find it at remote.engr.wisc.edu. No VPN is required.

The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. In the automotive industry engineering work groups are able to consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology. Best-in-class companies are taking advantage of Abaqus Unified FEA to consolidate their processes and tools, reduce costs and inefficiencies, and gain a competitive advantage.

For research licensing, please contact licensing@doit.wisc.edu

The use of Abaqus on CAE computers is restricted to coursework only. Research is not permitted.

ADAMS is a multibody dynamics simulation software equipped with Fortran and C++ numerical solvers. Adams helps engineers to study the dynamics of moving parts, how loads and forces are distributed throughout mechanical systems.

FTire focus on:

- Modelization (tire belt structure and tread description)
- Advanced modelization (tread wear and thermal model, tread pattern)
- Road modelization (3D road surfaces, flexible road surfaces, spatial parametric road descriptions)
- Input/Output data file handling (tire and road data handling, additional result files)

Adams is available on the CAE lab machines (Windows and Linux) as well as by remoting into the CAE linux lab computers:

To remote into a linux lab machine:

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) was a series of software suites of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. The collections consisted of various groupings of Adobe's applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects)

Adobe Creative Cloud is only available for student download based on course need. Instructors that require Adobe products for their students should contact DoIT for more information.

As of the Fall of 2019, Adobe is using a federated login. Details for this can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/library/93947

The Adobe license is handled by DoIT. For information on obtaining Adobe products, please see software.wisc.edu, then click on Campus Software Library.

Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by Keysight EEsof EDA, a division of Keysight Technologies. It provides an integrated design environment to designers of RF electronic products such as mobile phones, pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, radar systems, and high-speed data links.

The CAE lab version of ADS allows academic research: The use of this software is solely for the purpose of education. Use of the software for commercial purposes, to preform revenue generating services or to provide consulting services for industry or government-funded programs, is strictly prohibited. Work done during internships is considered commercial.

Students may install ADS on their own machines through the Student License Program. The student version prohibits research. More info for the student version can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/48154

For more information about ADS, visit the Keysight EEsof EDA - Resources for Students
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/lib/resources/technical-specifications/keysight-eesof-eda--resources-for-students-2175659.html

Altium develops electronics design tools – software and development hardware – that unify the entire electronics design process in one application.

Altium is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. **RESEARCH IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE XENAPP PLATFORM** You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

The ANSYS Workbench platform is the framework upon which the industry’s broadest and deepest suite of advanced engineering simulation technology is built. An innovative project schematic view ties together the entire simulation process, guiding the user through even complex multiphysics analyses with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Requests for research should be directed to Jake Blanchard jake.blanchard@wisc.edu

Ansys software is used to design products and semiconductors, as well as to create simulations that test a product's durability, temperature distribution, fluid movements, and electromagnetic properties.

If you need Ansys for research, there are licenses available. Email Ian Jentz at ijentz@wisc.edu for more information.

CAE holds an instructional license for Ansys. Research of any kind in the CAE labs, remote software or download from the software library is strictly prohibited.

Ansys Student Edition can be downloaded from the Ansys website. This KB should help you get it installed: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/74739

ArcGIS brings together maps, apps, data, and people to make smarter decisions and enable innovation in your organization or community.

Note that by default, some of the ArcGIS tools are not enabled. You can enable them by following these instructions https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/32781.

For more information about the ERSI Site License, please see: https://esri.wisc.edu/arcgis-pro/.

Arena is a discrete event simulation and automation software. It uses the SIMAN processor and simulation language.

Arena can be integrated with Microsoft technologies. It includes Visual Basic for Applications so models can be further automated if specific algorithms are needed. It also supports importing Microsoft Visio flowcharts, as well as reading from or outputting to Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. Hosting ActiveX controls is also supported.

The academic license that CAE holds states that RESEARCH IS PROHIBITED on the CAE lab computers and XenApp. Research licenses can be purchased from Arena.

Arena is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

AspenONE is a unified web and mobile environment for searching, sharing, viewing, interacting, and collaborating using  the content produced by Aspen’s engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain products.

The academic license for Aspen that is held by CAE allows research ONLY for research that is non-profit and not commercial (or commercially funded). All research done on the academic license must be freely published. For more information, please see: https://www.aspentech.com/-/media/aspentech/home/academic-program/aspentech-university-program.pdf?sc_lang=en

Aspen can be temporarily found remotely on XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

Autodesk's 3D CAD design software helps users design ideas, visualize concepts, and simulate how designs will perform in the real world.

Obtaining and installing AutoCad: https://kb.wisc.edu/38856

Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software has tools for product simulation, 3D mechanical design, tooling creation, design communication, and engineer to order.

3D CAD, or three-dimensional computer-aided design, is technology for design and technical documentation, which replaces manual drafting with an automated process. Used by architects, engineers, and other professionals, 3D CAD software precisely represents and visualizes objects using a collection of points in three dimensions on the computer.

Autodesk has a broad portfolio of 3D CAD software programs to help people explore and share ideas, visualize concepts, and simulate how designs will perform before they are made.

Suite components: AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Civil3D, Moldflow, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Revit Structure

Students may download AutoDesk products on their personal Windows machines.
For information on how to install AutoDesk products, please see

https://kb.wisc.edu/38856 

and https://software.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/ssl/csl_download.cgi, login with your NetID, then click Autodesk

For Mac users, if you do not have access to a Windows machine, you may need to BootCamp your Mac. DoIT has instructions here: https://kb.wisc.edu/20569

BioWin is a waste water treatment process simulator that ties together biological, chemical, and physical process models. BioWin is used world-wide to design, upgrade, and optimize waste water treatment plants of all types.

BlueBeam Revu provides powerful PDF creation, markup, editing and collaboration technology for paperless workflows.

BlueBeam is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

Industry-leading EDA software and custom IC design. IC, PCB, and SOC design tools, verification and more.

Cadence is available off campus by remoting into the CAE linux lab computers:

To remote into a linux lab machine:

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

The Mentor Graphics Calibre tool suite provides tools for physical verification of Integrated Circuit (IC) Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

Calibre is available by remoting into the CAE linux lab computers:

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

CHEMKIN is the gold standard for modeling and simulating gas-phase and surface chemistry that is used for the conceptual development of combustion systems in cars, trucks, jet engines, boilers and equipment used in materials processing applications.

Chemkin is part of the Ansys suite.

CAE holds an instructional license for Ansys. Research of any kind in the CAE labs, remote software or download from the software library is strictly prohibited.

Requests for Ansys research licenses can be directed to jake.blanchard@wisc.edu

Ansys Student Edition can be downloaded from the Ansys website. This KB should help you get it installed: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/99234

You can model and simulate any physics-based system using software from COMSOL®. COMSOL Multiphysics®includes the COMSOL Desktop® graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of predefined user interfaces with associated modeling tools, referred to as physics interfaces, for modeling common applications.

CAE holds the Academic Class Kit License. The CKL version of the Program is for the sole purpose of teaching in an ordinary course, provided the Programs are used in classrooms for instructional purposes only by enrolled students meeting classroom requirements for courses and study offered by the Institution. Any other use, including academic research, is expressly prohibited.
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There is a research consortium for COMSOL that is managed by Professor Kurt Feigl. Inquires about research needs can be sent to feigl@wisc.edu.

**COMSOL has been made temporarily available for student install. This license PROHIBTS ALL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES**

Instructions to install Comsol can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/internal/page.php?id=99184
You will need to log in with your NetID to view it.

Cyclus is the next-generation agent-based nuclear fuel cycle simulator, providing flexibility to users and developers through a dynamic resource exchange solver and plug-in, user-developed agent framework.

The goal of Cyclus is to enable a broad spectrum of fuel cycle simulation while providing a low barrier to entry for new users and agent developers. Cyclus engages with potential module developers and encourages them to join a vibrant community in an expanding ecosystem. Users and developers are always welcome and encouraged to use or contribute to the Cyclus project.

The Cyclus project repository is located at http://github.com/cyclus/cyclus

DANTSYS is a one-, two-, and three-dimensional, multigroup, discrete-ordinates transport code system, which includes five major codes: ONEDANT, TWODANT, TWOHEX, THREEDANT, and TWODANT-GQ. DANTSYS runs on the following platforms: CRAY-YMP, Sun SparcStation IPX, IBM RS/6000, HP, and Silicon Graphics under Unix-based operating systems.

Dansys is available by remote access to the CAE linux lab computers.

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309 https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Design Compiler Graphical uses advanced optimizations combined with accurate net delay modeling to achieve 5% faster timing post-placement. It extends DC Ultra™ topographical technology to provide physical guidance to IC Compiler, tightening timing and area correlation between synthesis and placement to 5% while speeding-up IC Compiler placement by 1.5X.

DFMA allows you to generate accurate part and tooling cost estimates for new designs and alternative materials and processes; evaluate supplier quotations against should-costing estimates; generate realistic estimates for target costing initiatives; and benchmark competitors’ products.

Dytran is an explicit finite element analysis (FEA) solution for simulating short-duration events like impact and crash, and to analyze the complex nonlinear behavior that structures undergo during these events.

Accurately simulate control systems, hydraulics (including thermal effects), pneumatics, gaseous flow, thermal, electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, environment control, lubrication or fuel systems, and sampled-data/discrete-time behavior.

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE). It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Written mostly in Java, Eclipse can be used to develop applications.

EES (pronounced 'ease') is a general equation-solving program that can numerically solve thousands of coupled non-linear algebraic and differential equations. The program can also be used to solve differential and integral equations, do optimization, provide uncertainty analyses, perform linear and non-linear regression, convert units, check unit consistency, and generate publication-quality plots. A major feature of EES is the high accuracy thermodynamic and transport property database that is provided for hundreds of substances in a manner that allows it to be used with the equation solving capability.

EES can be installed on Windows machines from the EES website https://ees.cae.wisc.edu YOU MUST BE ON THE UNIVERSITY VPN TO DOWNLOAD AND USE EES.

The Electric VLSI Design System is an EDA tool used to draw schematics and to do integrated circuit layout. It can also handle hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog. The system has many analysis and synthesis tools, including Design rule checking, Simulation, Routing, Layout vs. Schematic, Logical Effort, and more.

Electric is currently part of the GNU project and has been developed in Java and distributed as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3 or any later.

EPANET is software that models water distribution piping systems. EPANET performs extended period simulation of the water movement and quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks.

EPANET is public domain software that may be freely copied and distributed. It is a Windows 95/98/NT/XP program.

FEHT is an acronym for Finite Element Heat Transfer. FEHT was originally designed to facilitate the numerical solution of steady-state and transient two-dimensional conduction heat transfer problems.

For more information about FEHT, and how to obtain it, see https://feht.cae.wisc.edu/

FLOW-3D provides a complete and versatile CFD simulation platform for engineers investigating the dynamic behavior of liquids and gas in a wide range of industrial applications and physical processes. FLOW-3D focuses on free surface and multi-phase applications, serving a broad range of industries including microfluidics, bio-medical devices, water civil infrastructure, aerospace, consumer products, additive manufacturing, inkjet printing, laser welding, automotive, offshore, energy and automotive.

IF YOU ARE AN ACADEMIC USER, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO RESTRICT YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE TO TEACHING, ACADEMIC AND/OR UNSPONSORED RESEARCH, OR SPONSORED RESEARCH THAT CAN AND WILL BE FREELY PUBLISHED WITH NO PROPRIETARY RESTRICTIONS.

Flow3D is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

FreeMat is a free open-source numerical computing environment and programming language, similar to MATLAB and GNU Octave. In addition to supporting many MATLAB functions and some IDL functionality, it features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and has plotting and 3D visualization capabilities. Community support takes place in moderated Google Groups.

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain and the standard compiler for most projects related to GNU and Linux, including the Linux kernel. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC has played an important role in the growth of free software, as both a tool and an example.

GNU Octave is software featuring a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Since it is part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Octave is one of the major free alternatives to MATLAB, others being Scilab and FreeMat. Scilab, however, puts less emphasis on (bidirectional) syntactic compatibility with MATLAB than Octave does

Helios is a discontinued Unix-like operating system for parallel computers. It was developed and published by Perihelion Software. Its primary architecture is the Transputer. Helios' microkernel implements a distributed namespace and messaging protocol, through which services are accessed. A POSIX compatibility library enables the use of Unix application software, and the system provides most of the usual Unix utilities.

HTTP Commander is a web based file manager known since 2002 and used by 100 000+ end users. This software is intended for fast and easy integration of web site functionality with sharing and management of files and documents on a Windows server through a web browser over net.

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.4 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux.

ImageJ is installed on the CAE Windows lab machines, but it can also be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS from the NIH website: https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html

Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture.

Kinovea is a video player for sport analysis.

It provides a set of tools to capture, slow down, study, compare, annotate and measure technical performances.

Kinovea is freeware and can be downloaded from https://www.kinovea.org/download.html

Kiwi Syslog Server offers busy IT administrators a robust and affordable syslog server. Easy to set up and configure, Kiwi Syslog Server receives, logs, displays, alerts on, and forwards syslog, SNMP trap, and Windows event log messages from devices such as routers, switches, Linux and Unix hosts, and Windows servers.

KYPipe models water, petroleum, refined products, chemicals, refrigerants, low pressure sewer systems and more. It can be used for selecting and sizing pipes, pumps, valves, tanks and other devices. Calibration tools and pump operation optimization features help ensure sound modeling.

LabVIEW software is ideal for any measurement or control system, and the heart of the NI design platform. Integrating all the tools that engineers and scientists need to build a wide range of applications in dramatically less time, LabVIEW is a development environment for problem solving, accelerated productivity, and continual innovation.

LTspice IV is a high performance SPICE simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models for easing the simulation of switching regulators.

LTspice can be downloaded onto Windows and Mac computers from their website at https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html#

The result of over 30 years of cutting-edge research and development, Maple combines the world's most powerful mathematical computation engine with an intuitive, clickable user interface.

Maple is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

Maple is also available on the CAE Linux machines. You can remote into a Linux machine using one of the methods on the CAE Software for Distance Learning page.

Marc is a powerful, general-purpose, nonlinear finite element analysis solution to accurately simulate the response of your products under static, dynamic and multi-physics loading scenarios.

Mastercam is a suite of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and CAD/CAM software applications. Mastercam’s comprehensive set of predefined toolpaths—including contour, drill, pocketing, face, peel mill, engraving, surface high speed, advanced multiaxis, and many more—enable machinists to cut parts efficiently and accurately. Mastercam users can create and cut parts using one of many supplied machine and control definitions, or they can use Mastercam’s advanced tools to create their own customized definitions.

Students can install Mastercam for free at https://signup.mastercam.com/free-download-mastercam

PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 allows bigger problems to be solved, faster. With hundreds of built-in mathematical functions and the unlimited ability to define your own, the capability to solve equations both numerically and symbolically, and the proficiency to solve complex systems of equations, this release will support your advanced engineering design exploration.

Student version of Mathcad Express is available for download at https://www.mathcad.com/en/try-and-buy/mathcad-express-free-download

This download includes a free 30 day trial of Mathcad Prime, and then reverts to Mathcad Express (lifetime access).

Mathematica is a computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields, based on symbolic mathematics.

Mathematica is available for download for Windows, Linux, and Mac from the Campus Software Library at software.wisc.edu. See https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/65064 for more information.

MATLAB Compiler™ lets you share MATLAB® programs as standalone applications or shared libraries for integration with common programming languages. Applications and libraries created with MATLAB Compiler use the MATLAB Compiler Runtime, which enables royalty-free deployment to users who do not have MATLAB.

Spreadsheet Link™ EX connects Excel® spreadsheet software with the MATLAB® workspace, enabling you to access the MATLAB environment from an Excel spreadsheet. With Spreadsheet Link EX software, you can exchange data between MATLAB and Excel, taking advantage of the familiar Excel interface while accessing the computational speed and visualization capabilities of MATLAB.

SimMechanics™ provides a multibody simulation environment for 3D mechanical systems, such as robots, vehicle suspensions, construction equipment, and aircraft landing gear. You model the multibody system using blocks representing bodies, joints, constraints, and force elements, and then SimMechanics formulates and solves the equations of motion for the complete mechanical system. Models from CAD systems, including mass, inertia, joint, constraint, and 3D geometry, can be imported into SimMechanics. An automatically generated 3D animation lets you visualize the system dynamics.

Simscape™ provides an environment for modeling and simulating physical systems spanning mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and other physical domains.  It provides fundamental building blocks from these domains that you can assemble into models of physical components, such as electric motors, inverting op-amps, hydraulic valves, and ratchet mechanisms.  Because Simscape components use physical connections, your models match the structure of the system you are developing.

Simulink® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.

Simulink Control Design™ lets you design and analyze plants and control systems modeled in Simulink® and automatically tune PID controller gains to meet performance requirements.  Simulink Control Design provides tools that let you compute simulation-based frequency responses without modifying your model.

Stateflow® is an environment for modeling and simulating combinatorial and sequential decision logic based on state machines and flow charts. Stateflow lets you combine graphical and tabular representations, including state transition diagrams, flow charts, state transition tables, and truth tables, to model how your system reacts to events, time-based conditions, and external input signals.

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java®.

Matlab can be downloaded onto UW owned or personal machines (Mac and Windows). The download can be found in the Campus Software Library at software.wisc.edu. Keep in mind that this version provides only a temporary license, and that you may need to update the license once per year.

Matlab can also be found remotely the CAE Linux lab machines. You can use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Our Campus-Wide License gives everyone has access to MATLAB Online, MATLAB Drive, MATLAB Mobile, and MATLAB Grader, all cloud based tools for instruction.  
All of these can be accessed via our MathWorks/UW Portal here: https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/university-of-wisconsin-madison-678095.html

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java®.

Bioinformatics Toolbox™ provides algorithms and apps for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), microarray analysis, mass spectrometry, and gene ontology. Using toolbox functions, you can read genomic and proteomic data from standard file formats such as SAM, FASTA, CEL, and CDF, as well as from online databases such as the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus and GenBank®.

Control System Toolbox™ provides industry-standard algorithms and apps for systematically analyzing, designing, and tuning linear control systems. You can specify your system as a transfer function, state-space, zero-pole-gain or frequency-response model.

Curve Fitting Toolbox™ provides an app and functions for fitting curves and surfaces to data. The toolbox lets you perform exploratory data analysis, preprocess and post-process data, compare candidate models, and remove outliers. You can conduct regression analysis using the library of linear and nonlinear models provided or specify your own custom equations.  The library provides optimized solver parameters and starting conditions to improve the quality of your fits. The toolbox also supports nonparametric modeling techniques, such as splines, interpolation, and smoothing.

Data Acquisition Toolbox™ provides functions for connecting MATLAB® to data acquisition hardware. The toolbox supports a variety of DAQ hardware, including USB, PCI, PCI-Express®, PXI, and PXI-Express devices, from National Instruments, Measurement Computing, Advantech, Data Translation, and other vendors.

Database Toolbox™ provides an app and functions for exchanging data between relational databases and MATLAB®. You can use SQL commands to read and write data or use the Database Explorer app to interact with a database without using SQL.

MATLAB Distributed Computing Server™ lets you run computationally intensive MATLAB®programs and Simulink® models on computer clusters, clouds, and grids. You develop your program or model on a multicore desktop computer using Parallel Computing Toolbox™ and then scale up to many computers by running it on MATLAB Distributed Computing Server. The server supports batch jobs, parallel computations, and distributed large data. The server includes a built-in cluster job scheduler and provides support for commonly used third-party schedulers.

System Identification Toolbox™ provides MATLAB® functions, Simulink® blocks, and an appfor constructing mathematical models of dynamic systems from measured input-output data. It lets you create and use models of dynamic systems not easily modeled from first principles or specifications. You can use time-domain and frequency-domain input-output data to identify continuous-time and discrete-time transfer functions, process models, and state-space models. The toolbox also provides algorithms for embedded online parameter estimation.

Image Processing Toolbox™ provides a comprehensive set of reference-standardalgorithms, functions, and apps for image processing, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development. You can perform image analysis, image segmentation, image enhancement, noise reduction, geometric transformations, and image registration. Many toolbox functions support multicore processors, GPUs, and C-code generation.

Instrument Control Toolbox™ lets you connect MATLAB® directly to instruments such as oscilloscopes, function generators, signal analyzers, power supplies, and analytical instruments. The toolbox connects to your instruments via instrument drivers such as IVI and VXIplug&play, or via text-based SCPI commands over commonly used communication protocols such as GPIB, VISA, TCP/IP, and UDP. You can also control and acquire data from your test equipment without writing code.

Mapping Toolbox™ provides algorithms, functions, and an app for analyzing geographic data and creating map displays in MATLAB®. You can import vector and raster data from a wide range of file formats and web map servers. The toolbox lets you subset and customize data using trimming, interpolation, resampling, coordinate transformations, and other techniques. Geospatial data can be combined with base map layers from multiple sources in a single map display. You can export data in file formats such as shapefile, GeoTIFF, and KML. By incorporating mapping functions into MATLAB programs, you can automate frequent tasks in your geospatial workflow.

Neural Network Toolbox™ provides functions and apps for modeling complex nonlinearsystems that are not easily modeled with a closed-form equation. Neural Network Toolbox supports supervised learning with feedforward, radial basis, and dynamic networks. It also supports unsupervised learning with self-organizing maps and competitive layers. With the toolbox you can design, train, visualize, and simulate neural networks. You can use Neural Network Toolbox for applications such as data fitting, pattern recognition, clustering, time-series prediction, and dynamic system modeling and control.

Optimization Toolbox™ provides functions for finding parameters that minimize or maximize objectives while satisfying constraints. The toolbox includes solvers for linear programming, mixed-integer linear programming, quadratic programming, nonlinear optimization, and nonlinear least squares. You can use these solvers to find optimal solutions to continuous and discrete problems, perform tradeoff analyses, and incorporate optimization methods into algorithms and applications.

The Partial Differential Equation Toolbox™ product contains tools for the study and solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) in two-space dimensions (2-D) and time. A PDE app and functions let you preprocess, solve, and postprocess generic 2-D PDEs for a broad range of engineering and science applications.

Signal Processing Toolbox™ provides industry-standard algorithms and apps for analog and digital signal processing (DSP). You can use the toolbox to visualize signals in time and frequency domains, compute FFTs for spectral analysis, design FIR and IIR filters, and implement convolution, modulation, resampling, and other signal processing techniques. Algorithms in the toolbox can be used as a basis for developing custom algorithms for audio and speech processing, instrumentation, and baseband wireless communications.

Statistics Toolbox™ provides statistical and machine learning algorithms and tools for organizing, analyzing, and modeling data. You can use regression or classification for predictive modeling, generate random numbers for Monte Carlo simulations, use statistical plots for exploratory data analysis, and perform hypothesis tests.

Symbolic Math Toolbox™ provides functions for solving and manipulating symbolic math expressions and performing variable-precision arithmetic. You can analytically perform differentiation, integration, simplification, transforms, and equation solving. You can also generate code for MATLAB®, Simulink®, and Simscape™ from symbolic math expressions.

Wavelet Toolbox™ provides functions and an app for developing wavelet-based algorithms for the analysis, synthesis, denoising, and compression of signals and images.

Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport (MCNP)[2] is a general-purpose, continuous-energy, generalized-geometry, time-dependent, Monte Carlo radiation transport code designed to track many particle types over broad ranges of energies and is developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Specific areas of application include, but are not limited to, radiation protection and dosimetry, radiation shielding, radiography, medical physics, nuclear criticality safety, detector design and analysis, nuclear oil well logging, accelerator target design, fission and fusion reactor design, decontamination and decommissioning. The code treats an arbitrary three-dimensional configuration of materials in geometric cells bounded by first- and second-degree surfaces and fourth-degree elliptical tori.

MCNP6 is available remotely through the CAE linux lab machines. 

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Marc and Mentat combine to deliver a complete solution (pre-processing solution and post-processing solution) for implicit nonlinear FEA.

Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications (including Word, Exel and Powerpoint), servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems.

DoIT offers O365 to UW students, faculty and staff. More info can be found here: https://it.wisc.edu/services/office-365/

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family. The product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware corporation.

Visio is available for student installation through Microsoft Azure. More information about installing Visio can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/94614

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web applications and web services.

Analyze your data and improve your products and services with the leading statistical software used for quality improvement worldwide.

CAE does not offer research licenses for Minitab

Minitab has changed its license model such that a license is assigned to students enrolled in a course that is taught using Minitab. License assignment is facilitated by the instructor(s) of such course(s).

Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastic injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you carry out in-depth simulation of the widest range of injection molding processes  and to optimize product designs and manufacturability.

In order to accomodate distance learning, Moldex is temporarily available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

EMCO MSI Package Builder is an installation authoring tool designed to help administrators to create, maintain and distribute Windows Installer packages. It can be used to create MSI packages easily, to modify existing installations and to repackage setups from the EXE to MSI format.

The MVTA video analysis software helps automate time and motion analyses of visually discerned activities through an innovative interactive graphical user interface.

MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high performance computing.

Adams is also available by remoting into the CAE linux lab computers:

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Navisworks Manage project review software helps you holistically review integrated models and data with stakeholders to gain better control over project outcomes.

Navisworks is an Auodesk product, and can be downloaded as a free trial. You can download it here: https://www.autodesk.com/products/navisworks/overview#0

For Mac users, if you do not have access to a Windows machine, you may need to BootCamp your Mac. DoIT has instructions here: https://kb.wisc.edu/20569

Notepad++ is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. The project's name comes from the C increment operator.

NX provides key capabilities for fast, efficient and flexible product development: Advanced solutions for conceptual design, 3D modeling and documentation, Multi-discipline simulation for structural, motion, thermal, flow and multi-physics applications, Complete part manufacturing solutions for tooling, machining and quality inspection.

OpenMC is an open source Monte Carlo particle transport code focused on reactor modeling and reactor physics methods research. It is a community-developed code with contributors from many institutions. OpenMC is designed with flexibility and usability in mind. It simplifies the process of simulating complex reactor systems and analyzing their output datasets.

Inputs for OpenMC are generated through a Python API. Using Python rather than traditional text input files allows users to more easily automate the input generation process. The Python API also provides powerful post-processing tools and gives users the ability to quickly analyze their MC data with the many software libraries available in the Python ecosystem.

OpenMC also features a C API (which can be accessed through Python). This API makes it easier to integrate OpenMC into a coupled solver with efficient in-memory data transfers.

In the research community, as well as among EDA and fabless companies, NanGate’s Open Cell Libraries (NanGate OCLs) have become the de-facto option for exploring new algorithms, methodologies, design flows and circuit implementations that will eventually transform our industry tomorrow.

Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols.

PrecisionTree helps you tackle these types of complex, sequential decisions.  With PrecisionTree, you can visually map out, organize, and analyze  decisions using decision trees, right in Microsoft Excel. Decision trees are quantitative diagrams with nodes and branches representing different possible decision paths and chance events. This helps you identify and calculate the value of all possible alternatives, so you can choose the best option with confidence.

Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. It can be used to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans.

When using Primavera, you must log out of the application prior to logging out of the CAE workstation. If you do not, you must go back to the workstation that you were using Primavera on, and log out from there before you can log in on another machine.

Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

Project can be downloaded through the Azure program. More information about downloading Project can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/52431

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

Python can be donloaded for multiple operating systems from the Python website: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Quartus II is a software tool produced by Altera for analysis and synthesis of HDL designs, which enables the developer to compile their designs, perform timing analysis, examine RTL diagrams, simulate a design's reaction to different stimuli, and configure the target device with the programmer.

The Questa advanced simulator is the core simulation and debug engine of the Questa verification solution; the comprehensive advanced verification platform capable of reducing the risk of validating complex FPGA and SoC designs.

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. You can find the download for R at https://www.r-project.org

Available through the CAE linux lab machines.

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Revit is a building information modelling software for architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, designers and contractors. 
The software allows users to design a building and structure and its components in 3D, annotate the model with 2D drafting elements, and access building information from the building model's database.

Students may download AutoDesk products on their personal Windows machines.
For information on how to install AutoDesk products, please see

https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/page.php?id=24455

and https://software.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/ssl/csl_download.cgi, login with your NetID, then click Autodesk

For Mac users, you can still install AtuoDesk product:
BOOTCAMP: DoIT has instructions to set up your Mac to dual boot MacOX and Windows. You can find the KB here: https://kb.wisc.edu/20569. This will require you to partition your hard drive.

VIRTUAL BOX: Virtual box is another option. You can find a KB for Virtual Box here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/99212

CAE can not endorse one product over the other, nor are we able to provide anything more than best effort assistance with Macs.

Rhinoceros (Rhino3D) is a commercial 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application software. Rhinoceros geometry is based on the NURBS mathematical model, which focuses on producing mathematically precise representation of curves and freeform surfaces in computer graphics (as opposed to polygon mesh-based applications).

Rhinoceros is used in processes of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), rapid prototyping, 3D printing and reverse engineering in industries including architecture, industrial design (e.g. automotive design, watercraft design), product design (e.g. jewelry design) as well as for multimedia and graphic design.

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications. From drivers to state-of-the-art algorithms, and with powerful developer tools, ROS has what you need for your next robotics project.

Download available from http://wiki.ros.org/Installation

features a very sophisticated, intuitive and versatile user interface powered by an unmatched analysis engine and design tools for engineers working on transportation, industrial, public works, sports, and other facilities.

Must be used within the United States. Use outside of the USA is a violation of our license agreement.

SAP2000 is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

We are investigating options for local installation. If we are able to offer it for download, this section will be updated.

SecureCRT is a GUI-based telnet client and terminal emulator.

Silvaco Inc. is a leading EDA tools and semiconductor IP provider used for process and device development for advanced semiconductors, power IC, display and memory design.

Sinda uses a conductor-capacitor network representation approach to thermal analysis that offers numerous benefits when solving thermal problems. www.mscsoftware.com/product/sinda

SketchUp is a 3D modeling program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp

The Sketchup student program has ended and it is no longer available for free download :(

SOLIDWORKS leads the global 3D computer-aided design (CAD) industry with easy-to-use 3D software.

Research licenses for Solidworks can be obtained through DoIT. Email licensing@doit.wisc.edu for more information.

EULA for research: https://www.solidworks.com/sites/default/files/2017-12/EULA-SWEduEdt-StdEdt-Research-100815.pdf

Solidworks is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu
 and for installation on your laptop.

For assistance installing Solidworks, please see https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/56013

CAE licensed Solidworks (XenApp, CAE lab computers, download link above) may not be used for research, academic, or otherwise.
From the EULA: "You will not use the files created by the Software for research or commercial purposes or enable others to use the files created by the Software for research or commercial purposes."

The Enhanced TightVNC Viewer, SSVNC, adds encryption security to VNC connections. Using SSVNC, you can remote into a CAE linux lab machine from a Windows Lab machine.

SSVNC can be downloaded for Windows (Linux and Mac OS are also available) by follwing this KB: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309

Synopsys provides a comprehensive portfolio of tools for digital and mixed-signal IC design, implementation, signoff, verification, test, and design for manufacturability (DFM).

RESEARCH: Synopsys allows FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, which can be defined as basic and applied research in science and engineering, the results of which ordinarily are published and shared broadly within the scientific community, as distinguished from proprietary research and from industrial development, design, production, and product utilization, the results of which ordinarily are restricted for proprietary or national security reasons.

AVAILABILITY: Synopsys is available on Linux computers in EH B555, EH 2324, and 1410 Engineering Dr. room 121 as well as by remoting into a CAE Linux lab machine. Instructions for remote access to a Linux machine can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/106117. Synopsys is not available on Windows.

Synopsys cannot be installed on non-UW owned computers and is not available for student download.

Systems Tool Kit (formerly Satellite Tool Kit), often referred to by its initials STK, is a physics-based software package from Analytical Graphics, Inc. that allows engineers and scientists to perform complex analyses of ground, sea, air, and space assets, and share results in one integrated solution. At the core of STK is a geometry engine for determining the time-dynamic position and attitude of assets, and the spatial relationships among the objects under consideration including their relationships or accesses given a number of complex, simultaneous constraining conditions.

http://www.agi.com/downloads/products/product-literature/1110_EDU_Flyer.pdf 

-Academic research is allowed.

Taurus Medici is a 2D device simulator that models the electrical, thermal and optical characteristics of semiconductor devices. - See more at: http://www.synopsys.com/tools/tcad/devicesimulation/pages/taurusmedici.aspx#sthash.hJhz8iCm.dpuf

These libraries are free of charge and can be downloaded from TSMC's library distribution partners, Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Inc., Artisan, and Virage Logic. They provide easy, no-hassle integration, maximum cost savings, faster time to market and, ultimately, faster time-to-revenue. TSMC's high-density libraries and unique circuit under pad (CUP) I/Os allow designers to build functionality in the smallest possible chip area

VSim is a flexible, multiplatform, multiphysics simulation software tool. VSim is designed to run computationally intensive electromagnetic, electrostatic, and plasma simulations in the presence of complex dielectric, magnetic, and metallic shapes.

VSIM is available by remoting into  a CAE linux lab machine. You can follow these directions to SSH into the linux command line: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

WaveForms is a powerful suite of virtual instruments that brings analog and digital circuit design to your PC desktop. WaveForms seamlessly connects to our Analog Design products, such as the Electronics Explorer™ board and the Analog Discovery™ Kit. WaveForms provides a clean, easy to use graphical interface for each instrument, making it easy to acquire, store, analyze, produce, and reuse analog and digital signals.

Waveforms is free to download, and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (although it is only installed on Windows machines at CAE).
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,66,849&Prod=WAVEFORMS&CFID=6529835&CFTOKEN=de25659007ebda6-1165B989-5056-0201-023471C06D655FCE

WinEst is an on-premise database-driven estimating solution that helps estimators in businesses across various industries to manage and integrate project estimates using cost-knowledge management. Key features include construction takeoff, estimating, audit trails and reporting.

WinEST is available remotely through XenApp at remote.engr.wisc.edu. You will need to log in with your CAE ID.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, open and unpack RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet, create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

You can try a trial version, which is available here: https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm