Ansoft Corporation

Type	Public (NASDAQ: ANST)
Founded	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1984)
Headquarters	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Key people	Zoltan Cendes,Founder & Chairman Nicholas Csendes, President & CEO
Industry	EDA Software
Products	See complete products listing.
Revenue	▲ $67.9 million USD (2004)
Employees	314[1]
Website	www.ansoft.com

Ansoft Corporation is part of ANSYS, Inc. and develops Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; it was acquired by ANSYS on August 1, 2008. The Ansoft products add breadth and depth to the ANSYS portfolio of engineering simulation software tools, offering increased functionality, usability and interoperability.

The Ansoft group has several hundred people and distributes its products through offices around the world. Zoltan Cendes, a former Carnegie Mellon University professor and an IEEE fellow founded Ansoft.

[edit] Portfolio

Ansoft produce the commercial programs for applications such as system analysis, circuit design, and electromagnetic simulation. Their range includes ^[2]

• Ansoft Designer
• HFSS
• Nexxim
• DesignerSI
• Q3D Extractor
• SIwave
• TPA
• Maxwell 2D / 3D
• PExprt
• PMxprt

Ansoft also offer feature limited student versions ^[3] of

• Ansoft Designer
• Maxwell
• PExprt
• Simplorer

[edit] External links

• Ansoft Corporation homepage

[edit] References

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