SimLab extends Altair’s simulation-driven design approach to the electronics domain, enabling innovation while ensuring compliance with critical performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.

Thanks to native integration with major ECAD formats, design verification can begin early in the development cycle, helping to prevent costly mistakes. Thermal simulations can be performed without advanced CFD knowledge, and structural evaluations, such as stress, vibration, and drop tests, are automated through robust, repeatable workflows accessible even to non-expert users.

SimLab is also ideal for electric motor optimization, balancing power, thermal dissipation, and noise within a unified multiphysics environment.

With its ESD analysis and 3D IC design capabilities, SimLab is a game-changer in advanced simulation for integrated circuits and heterogeneous packaging. Through 3D digital twin modeling and cross-disciplinary collaboration, it addresses critical thermal and power delivery challenges in high-density chiplets.

“What-if” layout planning studies allow engineers to simulate different configurations, evaluate cooling efficiency, and identify thermal hotspots early in the design process. SimLab also helps prevent stress-induced warping, increasing design safety and longevity.

This well-established approach to 3D IC reliability helps reduce cost and risk, while improving the performance of complex electronic systems.

SimLab streamlines thermal-fluid analysis by combining automation and accuracy. Engineers can simulate complex scenarios such as inverter and battery cooling, oil behavior in gearboxes, vehicle movement through water, or granular particle dynamics.

The transition from CAD to CFD is seamless: SimLab automatically generates the mesh, boundary layers, and particles, and manages multiphysics coupling in a single environment.

In just a few steps, engineers can assess the performance of heat sinks, ventilation systems, and convective heating devices.

With SimLab, multiphysics simulation becomes accessible and scalable. Structural, thermal, fluid, and electromagnetic physics can be combined to study real-world behavior of components under complex operating conditions.

For example, engineers can optimize an electric motor by evaluating the interaction between electromagnetics, heat, and fluid flow—or analyze damage on a PCB caused by random vibration and cyclic thermal loads.
Support for linear and nonlinear, steady-state, transient, and contact-based simulations ensures deep and reliable analysis.

SimLab empowers engineers to make informed design decisions and anticipate issues through complete, consistent simulations.

SimLab offers guided workflows for advanced structural analysis, including drop tests, fatigue analysis, and topology optimization. Parametric CAD models can be imported, meshed automatically with high quality, and evaluated under a variety of conditions: linear and nonlinear statics, frequency response, small displacements, and eigenmodes.

Through integration with Altair OptiStruct, engineers can quickly define design space, objectives, constraints, and optimization parameters, resulting in lightweight, strong, and efficient structures.