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What is Systems Engineering & MBSE Software?
Systems engineering and MBSE software enables engineers and systems designers to create and simulate system designs using a GUI. Systems engineering software streamlines and simplifies the process of designing a system such as factory machines, industrial equipment systems, IoT systems, and more. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) software enables systems designers to model systems based on specific requirements. Compare and read user reviews of the best Systems Engineering & MBSE software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Innoslate
SPEC Innovations
Innoslate is a comprehensive platform for Systems Engineering, seamlessly integrating Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools to support the lifecycle of complex systems. From concept to decommissioning, Innoslate empowers teams to design, analyze, and manage systems precisely and efficiently. Comprehensive System Modeling: Use standard SysML, IDEF, DoDAF, and LML to visualize and define system architectures and behaviors. Requirements Integration: Link system models directly to requirements for complete traceability and alignment with project objectives. Lifecycle Support: Manage every phase of the system lifecycle, including requirements, design, testing, and deployment, within a unified platform. AI-Driven Insights: Leverage AI to analyze models, identify gaps, and suggest optimizations for better system performance. Simulation and Validation: Test system behaviors and processes using built-in tools, including discrete event and Monte Carlo simulation. -
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Teamcenter
Siemens
Teamcenter® software is a modern, adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) system that connects people and processes, across functional silos, with a digital thread for innovation. The unmatched breadth and depth of the Teamcenter portfolio mean that you can solve more of the tough challenges required to develop highly successful products. From the easy, intuitive Teamcenter user interface, people across the organization can take part in the product development process more easily than ever before. No matter how you choose to deploy Teamcenter – whether it be on-premises, on-cloud, or SaaS delivered via Teamcenter X – you get the same proven solutions designed to help you innovate faster. Get started with Teamcenter by taking control of product data and processes, including 3D designs, electronics, embedded software, documentation, and your bill of materials (BOM). Reach greater returns on your PLM system by leveraging your product information across more domains and departments. -
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BQR
BQR Reliability Engineering
𝗔𝗜-𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗕𝗤𝗥’𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝟱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀: 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗧𝗠: streamlines PCB design with de-rating & MTBF prediction. 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗸𝗧𝗠: verifies multi-PCB systems for errors & overstress. 𝗳𝗶𝗫𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀®: predicts component lifespan with de-rating, thermal & stress analysis. 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘®: assesses reliability, availability, maintainability & safety. 𝗮𝗽𝗺𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿®: optimizes maintenance & logistics. -
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3SL Cradle
3SL
Manage needs, epics, user stories, features and the product backlog through a series of sprints, each using your choice of requirements management, model based systems engineering (MBSE) and test management with your preferred level of change tracking, configuration management and formal change control. Cradle® is our requirements management and systems engineering software tool that integrates your entire project lifecycle in one, massively scalable, integrated, multi-user product. Whether your projects are small and local, large and distributed, or anywhere in between, Cradle can solve all your agile, requirements management, model driven development, defect tracking and test management needs in one place. With its unrivaled feature set, incredible flexibility, simple configuration and low cost, Cradle is the ideal choice if you are new to agile methods, requirements management or systems engineering.Starting Price: $449.00/one-time/user -
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Enterprise Architect
Sparx Systems
Enterprise Architect is an enterprise wide solution to visualize, analyze, model, test and maintain all of your systems, software, processes, and architectures. Enterprise Architect is the ideal platform to help you to stay in control of your workspace, support your colleagues and team, enable collaboration and build confidence within your most complex projects.Starting Price: $229 -
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IBM Rhapsody
IBM
IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® (Rational Rhapsody) and its family of products offers a proven solution for modeling and systems design activities that allows you to manage the complexity many organizations face with product and systems development. Rhapsody is part of the IBM Engineering portfolio that provides a collaborative design development, and test environment for systems engineers that supports UML, SysML, UAF and AUTOSAR. The solution also allows for control of defense frameworks (DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM) and helps accelerate industry standards such as DO-178, DO-178B/C and ISO 26262. Get continuous validation through rapid simulation, prototyping and execution to address errors earlier when they are less costly to fix. Use automatic consistency checking to enhance agility and improve reuse with collaboration to reduce both recurring and non-recurring costs. -
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Cameo Systems Modeler
Dassault Systèmes
Cameo Systems Modeler ™ is an industry leading cross-platform collaborative Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment, which provides smart, robust, and intuitive tools to define, track, and visualize all aspects of systems in the most standard-compliant SysML models and diagrams. The environment enables systems engineers to: Run engineering analysis for design decisions evaluation and requirements verification, continuously check model consistency and track design progress with metrics. System models can be managed in remote repositories, stored as standard XMI files, or published to documents, images, and web views to address different stakeholder concerns. -
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Simcenter Amesim
Siemens
Simcenter Amesim is a leading integrated, scalable mechatronic system simulation platform that allows design engineers to virtually assess and optimize the systems’ performance. This will boost overall systems engineering productivity from the early development stages until the final performance validation and controls calibration. It allows its users to focus on engineering, deliver accurate and actionable results, develop scalable models supporting the entire development cycle, improve collaboration and integrate system performance with other engineering disciplines. Simcenter Amesim is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software. -
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MADe
PHM Technology
Mitigate technical engineering-based risks that impact performance, operational availability and the cost of maintenance using modeling, analysis and decision support workflows. MADe is used to enable better decisions about the design and support of safety/mission-critical equipment at each stage of the product lifecycle. Reduce risk using interdependent analysis capabilities that consider the technical, operational and economic requirements of the operator and/or maintainer of the system. The MADe software is an integrated analysis solution that generates the artifacts required for Airworthiness certification. The analysis generated concurrently with design leads to improvements in the certification process. MADe automatically tracks the source of all parameters used in an analysis to provide a means of assessing the quality of data used to support engineering decisions and analysis.Starting Price: $10000.00/year -
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Valispace
Valispace
It enables Team Collaboration on all important aspects of the Engineering Lifecycle, such as: - Requirements Management - Data-Driven Functional Design - Product Architecture - Detailed Systems Design & Simulation - Automated Verification - Live Documentation It also allows for cross-lifecycle process improvements, such as: - Agile Engineering Planning - Technical Change Management In comparison to siloed Requirement Management Systems or Model Based Systems Engineering expert-tools, its data-driven architecture enables agile hardware development across departments with a digital thread along the engineering lifecycle. Valispace’s proprietary calculation engine propagates changes instantly to users, requirements, architecture, verifications and documentation. Therefore, its introduction into the engineering process reduces costs by significantly shortening development times, as well as by preventing design mistakes which usually lead to expensive rework.Starting Price: €50/month/user -
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SystemLink
NI
SystemLink eliminates the manual tasks when keeping test systems current and healthy. From automating updates to monitoring system health, SystemLink delivers key information that improves situational awareness and test readiness to help you deliver quality across the product lifecycle. With SystemLink, you ensure that software configurations are accurate, and that test equipment complies with calibration and quality standards. Leveraging an automation and connectivity platform, SystemLink aggregates test and measurement data from all test systems into a centralized data repository. Users have ready access to asset utilization, calibration forecasts as well as test result history, trends, and production metrics data to make proactive decisions on the capital expense, maintenance events, and test or product modifications. -
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LabVIEW
NI
LabVIEW offers a graphical programming approach that helps you visualize every aspect of your application, including hardware configuration, measurement data, and debugging. This visualization makes it simple to integrate measurement hardware from any vendor, represent complex logic on the diagram, develop data analysis algorithms, and design custom engineering user interfaces. With LabVIEW and NI DAQ hardware, you can build a custom measurement solution to visualize and analyze real-world signals to make data-driven decisions. Using LabVIEW and NI or third-party hardware, you can automate the validation of your product to meet challenging time-to-market and performance requirements. Working with LabVIEW, you can create flexible test applications that control multiple instruments and design user interfaces to optimize your manufacturing test throughput and operational cost. You can build industrial equipment and smart machines faster with LabVIEW.Starting Price: $453 per year -
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VeriStand
National Instruments
VeriStand application software helps you configure I/O channels, data logging, stimulus generation, and host communication for NI real-time hardware. You can also import simulation models and control algorithms, respond to events with configurable alarms, and enable test automation with macro recording, TestStand, .NET, and other software. You can interact with and monitor application data, alarm states, and system execution metrics using a run-time editable user interface. Although you don't need programming knowledge, you can also use a variety of software environments such as LabVIEW, ANSI C/C++, Python, and ASAM XIL to add custom functionality to VeriStand. VeriStand helps test engineers reduce the time they need to test their products with a wide range of functionality including configurable data acquisition, simulation model integration, test sequencing, and logging. Learn more about how you can use VeriStand to develop, deploy, and run your real-time tests.Starting Price: $2,065 per year -
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System Composer
MathWorks
System Composer™ enables the specification and analysis of architectures for model-based systems engineering and software architecture modeling. With System Composer, you allocate requirements while refining an architecture model that can then be designed and simulated in Simulink®. Architecture models consisting of components and interfaces can be authored directly, imported from other tools, or populated from the architectural elements of Simulink designs. You can describe your system using multiple architecture models and establish direct relationships between them via model-to-model allocations. Behaviors can be captured in sequence diagrams, state charts, or Simulink models. You can define and simulate the execution order of component functions and generate code from your software architecture models (with Simulink and Embedded Coder®).Starting Price: $740 per year -
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E3.series
Zuken
A comprehensive electrical and fluid planning software environment for advanced requirements. E3.series is a true concurrent electrical engineering environment supporting advanced requirements for electrical documentation, cabinet and wire harness design and manufacturing outputs. E3.series facilitates an efficient and accurate design and manufacturing process for electrical and fluid planning, cable planning, and wire harness and cabinet layout. Its object-oriented architecture provides an integrated and consistent design approach to help eliminate errors, improve quality and reduce design time. Consistency of all design phases through object orientation. Powerful automated operations and electrical checks. Comprehensive outputs for manufacturing and documentation. Native format library and design data management. Circuit diagrams, connection lists, layout plans and reports always up-to-date and synchronized.Starting Price: £80/€90/CHF110 per month -
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20-sim
20-sim
20-sim is a modeling and simulation software package for mechatronic systems. With 20-sim you can enter models graphically, similar to drawing an engineering scheme. With these models, you can simulate and analyze the behavior of multi-domain dynamic systems and create control systems. You can even generate C-code and run this code on hardware for rapid prototyping and HIL-simulation. 20-sim provides you with features that allow you to create models very quickly and intuitively. You can create models using equations, block diagrams, physics blocks and bond graphs. Various features help you to build your models, simulate them and analyze their performance. Models are built in the 20-sim editor. This editor contains a large model library with building blocks to help you to construct models. The model library contains many components such as block diagrams and bond graphs.Starting Price: €108 one-time payment -
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Ansys SCADE Architect
Ansys
Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers. It provides full support of industrial systems engineering processes, such as ARP 4754A, ISO 26262 and EN 50126. SCADE Architect features functional and architectural system modeling and verification in a SysML-based environment. Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers; the underlying SysML™ technology is hidden, making modeling more user-friendly and intuitive. Ansys tools support software development aligned to the FACE Technical Standard at both the model and generated code levels, providing users with an easy workflow that passes the FACE Conformance Test Suite (CTS), a necessary test process included in the FACE Technical Standard. -
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Keysight VEE
Keysight Technologies
VEE (W4000D) is an easy graphical programming tool with wide connectivity (GPIB, Serial, LAN) for automating test and measurement tasks in analysis and reporting. Keysight VEE Pro 9.33 is an easy-to-use graphical language environment that provides a quick path to measurement and analysis, replacing VEE Pro 9.3. Designed for easy expansion, flexibility and compatibility with the latest industry standards, Keysight VEE allows seamless operation with hardware and software from Keysight and other manufacturers. Keysight VEE Pro 9.33 now includes sample programs for the latest Keysight instruments. What’s more, programs that are developed in VEE Pro 9.2 work seamlessly in VEE Pro 9.33. VEE Pro 9.0, VEE Pro 9.2, VEE Pro 9.3 and VEE Pro 9.32 users can upgrade their VEE software to VEE Pro 9.33, at no additional cost. Existing VEE Education users cannot upgrade their old VEE Education versions (8.5 and below) to the new VEE Education 9.33, and must purchase VEE Education 9.33 directly. -
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Syndeia
Intercax
A Digital Thread is a graph whose nodes are elements in various enterprise repositories, tools, and version control systems, and whose edges are intra-model relationships within each tool and inter-model relationships created and managed by Syndeia between the nodes. Syndeia provides model transformation services to build the digital thread graph, such as drag-n-drop requirements from Jama or DOORS-NG to SysML, generate Simulink models and PLM part structures from SysML models, connect behavior elements in SysML to software code in GitHub, or track the development status of a sub-system in JIRA directly from SysML. Syndeia provides services to search, compare, and bi-directionally synchronize connected models in the digital thread, such as compare and sync changes in system architecture to PLM part structure, compare connected SysML and Simulink models, or sync changes in DOORS-NG requirements to SysML. -
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Artura
Artura
Artura is a new, innovative, continuously evolving product that solves a problem that all system integrators, project managers, and system designers know very well. To engineer, design and propose technical systems (AV, IT, Security, Lightning, etc.), different people work with various tools that are often not designed to do what you want to do, resulting in time-consuming and repeating tasks, no central overview, and an inefficient documentation flow. As a result, there is no single source of truth where modifications in design and scope are united while the project is full of operational inefficiencies. Artura solves that. It is a collaborative design, engineering, and proposal-generating tool for AV, IT, and Security system integration companies in commercial, residential, and maritime space. Artura is an online, modern, and easy-to-use web application for system design, engineering, and creating proposals. For your team, your client, and other stakeholders. -
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A blast of brilliant, associated items is influencing the building to process more perplexing. This multifaceted nature implies more partners from numerous designing areas should be included. With these different areas comes a blend of dialects, devices, and databases. To bring together partners, associations are receiving model-based frameworks building (MBSE) systems as a major aspect of their application lifecycle exercises that offer a typical, visual dialect and organized designing methodology. Solutions from PTC provide a collaborative, visual approach for better communication, clarity, and maintainability of all product data. MBSE applies modeling, tools, and methods to improve your systems engineering programs and projects, spurring technological innovation and positively impacting costs and productivity. Quality and regulatory compliance is also improved as risks are discovered and mitigated sooner.
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Relatics
Relatics
Relatics is Model-Based Systems Engineering software used by projects in the construction and civil engineering industry. It frees the project of numerous spreadsheets and isolated applications. As a result, Relatics has proven to regain project control, reduce project risks, and decrease failure costs. Relatics is used by governments, contractors and consultancy firms for buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, canals, dams, ports, airports and dredging. Relatics allows the construction industry to adopt Systems Engineering effectively and to bring projects for both client and contractor to the next level. Indepently of your maturity level, Relatics supports your transformation from a document-driven approach to a model-driven approach and helps you to fully benefit from working together across all disciplines. With Relatics, all relevant information can be found with one single click, regardless of your project’s size or complexity. -
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Aras Innovator
Aras
Aras Innovator uniquely offers one software platform for complete, end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management, from Requirements and Engineering to Manufacturing and Operation. Our applications are designed to be customized with an easy, low-code approach you can try today. Managing requirements is fundamental to designing great products. Learn how to author and manage requirements in the Digital Thread with Aras. Improve product development with more efficient and effective design processes, streamlining program and project management with powerful capabilities in Aras Innovator. Successful engineering changes are central to improving products and accelerating their development. Aras offers powerful capabilities to manage engineering change. Select, source, and compare electronic components to meet your products’ needs. Connect to a commercial database of millions of parts from leading global manufacturers. -
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AVSnap
AVSnap
AVSnap is easy to use and simple to learn. All of the features are at your fingertips. Need to conduct technical sales? No problem: get your diagrams ready in record time. Use manufacturer component libraries to zip you through a design process. No problem: use built-in GUI designer with simple to learn control code to make the system fully operational within hours. The power of AVSnap rests in its Library Editor. Draw your symbols, add snap points and adjust functionality. It takes a few simple steps to create a library component, but the dividends pay long after it is done. Once created, they can be re-used anywhere in the design. AVSnap is uniquely capable of controlling any controllable device. It can lower shades, adjust volume, switch video inputs, open garage door, adjust the temperature, detect the presence, send emails, communicate over TCP/IP, communicate via rs-232, and much more. -
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Vitech CORE
Vitech
Thousands of projects and tens of thousands of systems engineers have relied on CORE since it was first launched in 1993. From the beginning, CORE embraced what today we call model-based systems engineering. Combining the power of a systems metamodel to integrate systems engineering with powerful view generators to produce diagrams on demand with guaranteed consistency, CORE supported a generation of systems engineering success around the world. While GENESYS is the right choice for organizations today, Vitech continues to support projects and clients who rely upon CORE to meet their systems engineering needs. Much as defining and controlling interfaces in system design is critical to a successful system, managing the interrelationships between data is essential to project success. -
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FlexLogger
National Instruments
FlexLogger helps you build flexible, scalable data-logging systems with NI DAQ hardware, no programming required. You can use sensor-specific configuration workflows to quickly set up, visualize, and log a mix of synchronized measurements from analog sensors, digital signals, and vehicle communication buses. You can also generate voltage, current, or digital signals to drive actuators or control set points. FlexLogger automatically saves metadata documenting your test configuration, so you can quickly trace test results and make comparisons across multiple tests. You can interactively review test results in the integrated data viewer to visually inspect your data and draw conclusions. FlexLogger automatically synchronizes mixed-signal measurements, so you can accurately analyze data from different sources to verify physical components function according to design specifications. -
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Aqira
HBM Prenscia
It delivers an integrated solution for uniting engineering processes, encapsulating expertise, and driving performance across physical test and CAE simulation departments. Offered using token-based licenses, Aqira provides cost-effective global licensing access to an unparalleled solution for gaining insights from advanced data science, machine learning, and big data analytics. Use apps to easily share validated, up-to-date analytical processes with engineers of varying experience for improved quality of analysis and productivity from less-expert users. Reduce time spent finding right data and avoid unnecessary testing with built-in data search capabilities for locating critical information. Effectively manage access to expert-defined processes while still providing the flexibility to enable a global organization. -
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InstrumentStudio
National Instruments
InstrumentStudio helps you to unify your display, export instrument configurations for a higher level starting point, and monitor and debug your automated test system. You can view data on unified displays with large, high-resolution monitors, and then capture multi-instrument screenshots and measurement results. Save project-level configurations for easier test repeatability with specific devices under test, or export instrument configurations to programming environments or directly to TestStand to simplify your code and parametric sweeps. You can also use InstrumentStudio in parallel with your code to monitor and debug running test applications. InstrumentStudio provides an integrated environment for instrument configuration that both simplifies quick, interactive measurements and augments automated production test systems. -
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MapleMBSE
Maplesoft
Systems engineering projects are much more likely to succeed if every stakeholder can easily contribute to the process, but most people don’t have the training needed to use traditional SE tools, or work with the complex modeling languages found in SE practices. MapleMBSE makes broad engagement possible with Excel-based, task-specific interfaces for each activity in your SE project. By giving all stakeholders access to the process through a live, two-way connection to the model of your system, you can ensure that all stakeholders can collaborate through the systems model, allowing them to work faster, avoid errors, and reduce unbudgeted costs. The MapleMBSE interface is simpler to apply, it gives system engineers more flexibility for making model adjustments, and overall it cuts down knowledge-capture errors. -
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PathWave System Design
Keysight Technologies
Go beyond math-based modeling with a complete RF-aware design workflow, plus decades of Keysight measurement science in RF instrumentation, ready for any system architect. PathWave System Design offers the most advanced prototyping and design platform for complex RF systems with faster simulation speed, near-circuit fidelity, libraries for radar, electronic warfare, satellite, 5G, and WiFi, plus enterprise integration with numerous partners. Statistical models for propagation and channels can only take your system designs so far. Dynamic kinematic modeling for radar, electronic warfare, satellite, 5G, and automotive are all possible with connections to tools such as STK by AGI, an Ansys Company. Designers of advanced cellular systems need trusted reference libraries that are based on Keysight measurement science. Researchers exploring the next generation of communications signals need a flexible platform for physical layer development and testing.