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The Microsystem design flow: From Layout to Packaging

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:41:01 GMT

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) conquer our daily lives. They are everywhere: in our cars, at the doctor's office as well as in the plane that takes us to our vacation. But today it lacks an effective response to the demand for reliability of the different actors. In this lecture we will show you how a complete and systematic design flow for MEMS based systems will yield higher quality MEMS based microsystems that are able to operate in harsh environments (temperature, vibration, humidity, corrosion, high voltage ...) while being more power efficient, autonomous and reliable than the classic components they are replacing.

The Seminar was given by Open Engineering, TAIPRO Engineering and SoftMEMS

Industrial multiphysics design for optical devices

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:03:58 GMT

A growing number of high precision optical systems has to perform in harsh conditions. For example, the space and medical industries raise the standards for the design of optical devices that need high dimensional stability, increased accuracy and predictable performances.

That is why in these markets it is often necessary to combine real-life tests with Multiphysics CAE. But a preliminary experimental validation of the numerical solution is mandatory to ensure the very high precision level required for optical applications.

This integrated opto-thermo-mechanic design flow will enable you to speed up the development process and increase the reliability of your devices at a reduced cost.

This seminar was given by Open Engineering , AMOS and CSL on April 26th 2012

Industrial Multiphysics Design For Optical Devices

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:19:55 GMT

April 26th, 2012

This integrated opto-thermo-mechanic design flow will enable you to speed up the development process and increase the reliability of your devices at a reduced cost.

Seminar given by Open Engineering , AMOS and CSL

Get More Information on OOFELIE for Advanced Optics

Agenda

10h00 Welcome
10h30 Introduction: The importance of integrated Opto-Thermo-electro-mechanic design when it comes down to reliability and accuracy (Open Engineering)
11h00 Overview of the Opto-mechanic design technology @ AMOS (AMOS)
11h30 Break
11h45 Experimental characterization of optical devices: Evaluation of the opto-thermo-mechanical CAE techniques that are needed to match the experimental results (CSL)
12h30 Conclusion (Open Engineering) - Lunch

Registration

Please click here to register or express your interest.
Registration fees 25€
Payment on the following bank account :
IBAN : BE22 3400 3398 0047
BIC : BBRUBEBB
Name : Technifutur
Before April 23th, 2012

Venue

www.technifutur.be

The Microsystem design flow: From Layout to Packaging

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:08:30 GMT

March 27th, 2012

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) conquer our daily lives. They are everywhere: in our cars, at the doctor's office as well as in the plane that takes us to our vacation. But today it lacks an effective response to the demand for reliability of the different actors. In this lecture we will show you how a complete and systematic design flow for MEMS based systems will yield higher quality MEMS based microsystems that are able to operate in harsh environments (temperature, vibration, humidity, corrosion, high voltage ...) while being more power efficient, autonomous and reliable than the classic components they are replacing.

Agenda

10h00 Welcome
10h30 Introduction: The importance of MEMS-based microsystems for automotive, user electronics, medical and aeronautic design. Opportunities and Challenges (Open Engineering)
10h45 The MEMS design flow including an overview of the major production and design centers (SoftMEMS - Open Engineering)
11h45 MEMS packaging is crucial for system performance and reliability (Taipro)
12h30 Conclusion (Open Engineering)
13h00 Lunch
Optional: Software demonstration &
cleanroom visit
Please click here to register or express your interest.
Registration fees 25€
Payment on the following bank account :
IBAN : BE22 3400 3398 0047
BIC : BBRUBEBB
Name : Technifutur
Before March 25th, 2012

Registration

Venue

www.technifutur.be

Pôles de compétitivité - événement presse

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:20:01 GMT

Open Engineering, a project particpant, has contributed to the presentation of the LIONEL project at Physiol on the 29th of February 2012.

Our contribution consisted in the Mutliphysics CAE of multifocal intraocular implants combining MOLDEX, ZEMAX and OOFELIE::Multiphysics in a single design flow.

The presentation was part of a bigger press conference on the "Pôles de compétitivité". Including other speakers such as C. Pagnoulle, R&D Director at Physiol, O. Dupont owner at Lambda-X and Jean-Claude Marcourt Vice-President and Minister of Economy, SMEs, Trade and New Technologies.

Click here to see video footage from the event.

Learning all about MEMS, from our partner SoftMEMS.

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:43:52 GMT

Please go to the following url at LinkedIn to learn about MEMS design success stories from our partner SoftMEMS

Learning About MEMS

Started by Daniel Payne, EDA Marketing Consultant

Industry Standard Designflow

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:18:37 GMT

General Product Overview

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:02:59 GMT

Strongly coupled multiphysics propels your design into the future.

Successful technical innovation can only be based on robust accurate design. Today’s PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) benefits from using advanced multi-core, multi-grid computer technology. It is now possible to simulate complex strongly coupled multiphysics problems in a single simulation run and thus obtain results that were previously only achievable after lengthy (and time consuming) measurements. As a consequence, accurate multiphysics CAE cuts the number of design cycles and accelerates your innovation capacity.

General Product Overview

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:54:00 GMT

Strongly coupled multiphysics propels your design into the future.

Industry Standard Design Flow

OOFELIE::Multiphysics is integrated in SAMCEF Field, an industrial CAD/CAE user interface (UI) used extensively in the Aeronautics and Automotive industry. While featuring all elements for a professional CAE design, it takes an intuitive 5 step approach, presenting only the functionality you need at every step.

Intuitive Left-to-Right Design Flow

	Use the full CAD interface for parameterized multiphysics modelingof your design. Link into the design flow by importing and manipulating files from various vendors (CATIA®, Solidworks®, STEP, IGES...).

	Use the hierarchical UI to assign the different multi physical(multi-dependant, equation based) material properties to each component. Make use of a pre-defined material data base to increase your efficiency. Set loads and constraints.

	Define the mesh of your geometry. Take the most accurate and efficient approach by using the full spectrum of mesh shapes (tetrahedron, pentahedron,hexahedron...), mesh orders (linear, quadratic) and mesh generation (Delaunay-Voronoi, Frontal...) methods. Use gluing and mesh contact algorithms to efficiently join separate meshed parts.

	In the electro-thermal domain (example), you solve for the transient or static response of your parameterized system. OOFELIE will strongly couple thermal and electrical effects to better model Joule heating. Move from verification to design by linking to optimization scripts or to BOSS quattro for parametric analyses, design of experiments, multidisciplinary optimization,sensitivity & statistic analysis.

	After simulation, examine your results in the solution tree of the hierarchical UI. The results can be 3D plots as well as animations and sound files of the multiple physical fields that are calculated! Finally results are easily exported to other tools for further post-processing.

Why Today’s Sensors and Actuators need Strongly Coupled Multiphysics Design.

VIA - Vibrating Inertial Accelerometer: Based on piezo-electricdetection of a Vibrating beam. - Courtesy ONERA.
Today’s sensors and actuators often involve multiple physical phenomena such as Capacitive –Electrostatics, Piezoresistivity, Piezoelectrity, Accoustics, Thermics, Peltier effects and ElectroMagnetics.
As components are increasingly scaled down (nanotechnology, MEMS), specific microscopicphysical phenomena assume greater importance (Electrostatic effects, Peltier). Furthermore the time constants of these physical phenomena have similar orders of magnitude (electrical, mechanicaland thermal effects). Classical design techniques performing sequentially coupled simulations of the different physical phenomena will yield poor accuracy. Not so with OOFELIE::Multiphysics, which can solve more than 4 of such phenomena in a single, strongly coupled simulation setup for optimal accuracy and convergence.

Product Features

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:51:38 GMT

Vinas Users Conference 2011

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:37:48 GMT

Pascal De Vincenzo, GM of Open Engineering will present at the Vinas Users Conference on October 20th and 21st, 2011 at the Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa.

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Grenoble Innovation Fair 2011

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:16:29 GMT

Open Engineering will be present at the Grenoble Innovation Fair on the 20th and 21st of October 2011.

It will be the opportunity for in depth technical discussions on how multiphyiscs simulations respond to the next 20 year Key Enabling Technologies needs.

For more information go to http://www.grenoble-innovation-fair.com/GB_home.html

NANO KOREA 2011, The 9th International Nanotech Exhibition in Korea

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:11:20 GMT

Open Engineering will be present at the NANO KOREA 2011 conference and tradeshow. We will present an article on "The Integrated Design of a MEMS-based Flow-Sensor System" on August 25th in the modeling and simulation section.

We are also present at the tradeshow at the booth A4. We invite you to visit us to find out how Oofelie Multiphyiscs can help you for reliable micro and nano system design work.

A high level of functional integration is critical for successfully building today's smart systems. We will show a high level design flow integration combining tools from Open Engineering for Industrial Multiphysics simulation, SoftMEMS for MEMS technology transfer and Agilent EEsof ADS for circuit design and simulation. Using this flow we will

Capture all multiphysics interactions and optimize the sensitivity of the sensor
Simulate the fluid-structure interactions (FSI) together with the electronics circuitry.

The technological integration of the MEMS transducer with an integrated read-out integrated circuit (IC) in CMOS will minimize parasitic elements and thus provide a high resolution.

It wil esnure the system's performance with regards to

Sensitivity
Low consumption in view of high autonomy
Reliability for extended lifetime
Limiting its cost.

12th SAMTECH User's Conference - Liege, Belgium

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:08:43 GMT

15th & 16th November 2011 - Crowne Plaza, Liege Belgium

Following on from the highly successful 2009 Paris User's Conference, 2011 marks several significant celebrations, including the 25th anniversary of SAMTECH, the 10th anniversary of SAMTECH's subsidiary OPEN ENGINEERING and the 50th anniversary of the Aeronautic and Space technics Laboratory of the University of Liège (LTAS) where the first line of SAMCEF and BOSS quattro were written.

We are honoured to welcome TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, EUROCOPTER and SNECMA for our introduction lectures”, said Eric Carnoy, SAMTECH Headquarters's CEO. “They will give attendees an exclusive strategic view on the Virtual Prototyping technologies used in the automotive and aeronautic and sectors. Furthermore, with the international panel of speakers, the SAMTECH Conference 2011 will be a unique place-to-be to discuss the state-of-the-art CAE simulation and analysis projects in the industry”.

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Opto-Thermo-Mechanical Analysis Using OOFELIE. Training by ZEMAX Europe distributor Optima Research

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:00:20 GMT

New for 2011!

This course emphasises the coupling between the optical and the structural designs in high precision optical systems, using OOFELIE for Advanced Optics and ZEMAX. Examples of this course will include simple and concrete models such as mirrors, lenses and their mounts.

Course Instructor

Philippe Saint-Georges is development engineer at Open Engineering and is the product manager of the solution OOFELIE for Advanced Optics.

For more information and registration please go to the Optima Research Link.

Open Engineering will present at SPIE Optical System Design - Marseille France

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:19:01 GMT

Open Engineering will present an article on the Experimental validation of opto-thermo-elastic modelling in OOFELIE::MultiPhysics together with the Centre Spatial de Liège and GDTech

Optic test bench results are compared to the predictions obtained by OOFELIE::Multiphysics treating coupled problems of optics, mechanics, thermal physics, electricity, electromagnetism, acoustics and hydrodynamics. From this comparison modelling we implemented to improve the accuracy of computed thermo-elastic distortions and their impact on the optical performances.

For more information, please click on the following link: SPIE - Optical Systems Design

Open Engineering will be present at the 49th International Paris Airshow Le Bourget

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:36:20 GMT

Paris Air Show
Hall 2B, Stand G49

Come and visit us on our stand!
From 20th to 26th June 2011
Le Bourget, France

Open Engineering will take part as exhibitor in the Paris Air Show 2011 that will be held in Le Bourget (France) from June 20 - 26th, 2011.

At the show we will present our Multiphyiscs CAE capabilities for Sensors and Actuators, Structural Health Monitoring, advanced adaptive opto-thermo-mechanics and Fluid - Multiphyisics Interactions for nozle and wing flutter modeling.

Open Engineering will present at FMEC Seminar on Software Aided Design: Challenges and Opportunities

Mon, 30 May 2011 14:30:49 GMT

On Wednesday June 1st 2011, the Flanders’ Mechatronics Engineering Centre (FMEC) of the KHBO organizes a seminar concerning the challenges and opportunities for Software Aided Design in the design process of electronics.

MEMS-Based System Solutions: Designs, Tradeoffs and Applications

Erwin De Baetselier – Open Engineering

Click on the link below for the invitation details:

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SAMTECH Group signs cooperation with ITMO - Russia

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:45:51 GMT

The SAMTECH Group to sign a cooperation agreement with ITMO the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Liege, Belgium, March, 2011. OPEN ENGINEERING, the Multiphysics branch of the SAMTECH Group, a leading European provider of simulation software and services, signed a cooperation agreement with the famous Russian University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO). This agreement strengthens the SAMTECH Group position on the Russian market as global CAE software supplier.

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7th Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:15:40 GMT

Open Engineering will give a presentation at the 7th Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles to be held 9-12 May 2011 in Site Oud Sint-Jan in Brugge, Belgium.

The subject of our talk will be "A Strongly Coupled Staggered Approach to Solve Fluid-Structure-Interaction Problems with Thermal and Dynamical Couplings" .

Traditional CFD simulations require highly sensitive settings to obtain converging and reproduceable results and the traditional combination with Multiphysics applications proves to add an even bigger hurdle.

In our talk we will show how you can overcome these problems by using the advanced technological capabilities of the FINE/Oofelie FSI software.: A strongly coupled approach for FSI simulations yields to better convergence and accuracy.