10 New Aerospace Software Products for 2021

Weapon systems with human intelligence. Unmanned, autonomous vehicles. Real-time, mission-critical operating systems. Is there another field that demands software with the precision and reliability found in air and space weapon systems?

While it’s natural to think of developments that can detect and force foreign drones to land safely, some of the most exciting aerospace engineering software launches of 2021 impact the simulation and design protocols behind manufacturing and machining processes. As weapon systems become increasingly more advanced, each step of the build requires precision software that can guarantee safety-critical, real-time, reactive systems, such as these ten, below.

Simulation Software

OROLIA: Broadsim Solo

Single-Output Software-Defined GNSS Simulator

Orolia Defense & Security’s BroadSim Solo was developed to bring advanced global navigation satellite system (GNSS) scenario creation to your desk and propel development cycles. BroadSim Solo shares the same software-defined benefits as the rest of the BroadSim family, such as the ability to simulate multiple constellations, including AES M-Code, an intuitive user interface, high-dynamics, innovative features and ultra-low latency.

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CENIT: FASTSUITE Edition 2

3D Simulation Platform

The latest FASTSUITE release offers expanded functions that provide efficient tools for closing the digital gaps between design, simulation, engineering and production. New functionality also enables users to manage the entire lifecycle of products and workpieces during an automation project, including design changes and variants. It also provides greater ease of use in generating product assemblies.

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Desktop Metal: Live Sinter™

Process Simulation Software

This new software solution eliminates the trial and error required to achieve high-accuracy parts via powder metallurgy-based additive manufacturing processes like binder jetting. LiveSinter corrects for the shrinkage and distortion parts typically experience during sintering. In just minutes, it generates “negative offset” geometry which, when sintered, results in straight, defect-free parts out of the furnace.

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AI Software

CoreAVI: VkCoreVX™ SC

Safe AI and Computer Vision Solution

VkCoreVX™ SC is CoreAVI’s safety critical implementation of OpenVX™1.3, the Khronos’ OpenVX industry standard API that provides a feature set for implementing and deploying neural networks in safety critical environments. VkCoreVX SC is the backbone of CoreAVI’s AI and computer vision platform for safe autonomy, providing APIs that enable the safe deployment of the convolutional neural networks, supporting vector machines, gaussian filtering, optimal flow and more.

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CITADEL DEFENSE: Titan Systems

Drone Detection Software

Titan’s new AI and machine learning software release was developed over 27 months of deployments across multiple combat commands and hundreds of unique environments. Radio frequency sensors deliver this advanced AI and machine learning detection performance to integrated, layered counter drone solutions. The system’s open architecture allows for quick integration with other sensors, for flexible options that match mission needs and configurations.

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Design, Prototyping and Modeling Software

OPEN MIND TECHNOLOGIES AG: HyperMILL®2021.1

CAD/CAM Software Suite

The latest HyperMILL software suite offers new and enhanced features for efficient 3D, 5-axis and mill/turn machining, including a new “interactive edit toolpath” capability that enables toolpath editing after initial toolpath generation. Especially productive for optimizing tool and mold making, the new toolpath editing feature offers programmers the flexibility to adapt toolpaths by trimming and removing sequences accordingly for component conditions. The new software also streamlines access to PMI and metadata with a new import function.

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ZUKEN: CR-8000

Advanced PCB Design Software

The latest edition of CR-8000 focuses on analysis and reuse and features more than 150 enhancements across the tool suite from architectural planning, system-level schematic design and verification, 3D multi-board and advanced packing layout, through to manufacturing outputs generation. The 2021 enhancements make marginal design problems more detectable with robust constraint definition capabilities.

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RENESAS: Quick-Connect IoT

IoT Systems Prototyping

Developed as standard hardware and software building blocks to enable quick prototyping of IoT systems, the Renesas Quick-Connect IoT system consists of standardized boards and interfaces, enabling designers to connect a wide range of sensors to MCU development boards. The new system also delivers core software building blocks that are portable between boards, reducing coding requirements.

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COMSOL: Multiphysics®

Multiphysics Modeling Software

The new 5.6 version of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software features faster and more memory-lean solvers for multicore and cluster computations, more efficient CAD assembly handling and application layout templates. A range of new graphics features — including clip planes, realistic material rendering, and partial transparency — offer enhanced visualization for simulation results.

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SEGGER: Open Flashloader

Open Flashloader for RISC-V Systems

The new Open Flashloader, which can be adjusted to fit any RISC-V system, allows engineers to write flash loaders that fit into just 2kB of RAM. This enables J-Link debug probes to download directly and easily into the flash memory of a RISC-V microcontroller or SoC. At the same time, it provides a solution for mass production programming using the Flasher series of flash programmers. These flash loaders work with any software supporting J-Link debug probes.

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Discover More Trends in Weapon Systems Software at the Air & Space Weapon Systems Software Summit ‘22

Today, the success of a weapon system is becoming more and more dependent on the success of the software portion of the system — which is evolving every day with new releases and developments and integration with new weapons.

The new DoD Air & Space Weapon Systems Software Summit ’22 provides a neutral forum for software engineers to solve problems, seek fresh perspectives and spark new ideas to tackle challenges in creative, innovative ways. Co-located with SAE International’s Defense Systems Tech Expo (DSTE), DoD and Defense Industrial Base engineers can access the latest innovations advancing the software behind autonomy, machine learning, AI and weapons of tomorrow.

If you’re serious about mission-ready weapon systems software, then join fellow engineers, developers, DoD and defense primes, military end-users and business leaders at the only government-sponsored event for the DOD enterprise software engineering community.

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