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Welcome to the
October 2006 Issue of the Maple Reporter!
The Maple Reporter provides all the latest news from Maplesoft,
with articles highlighting new products, innovative application
areas, tips and techniques, events, and much more.
This month’s issue features news on newly redesigned and optimized
MaplePrimes, Maplesoft’s online user community. Maplesoft
has also a launched the new Elite Maintenance Program to help customers
maximize their software investment. Also, check out this month’s
Tips & Techniques and read the latest user case study from Fairchild
Semiconductor International.
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News
& Announcements
The New Elite Maintenance Program, launched
by Maplesoft, is much more than a maintenance program that
offers support and upgrades. It is intended to help customers
maximize their software investment, and with a growing list
of benefits, subscribers can take advantage of the latest
Maplesoft technology with upgrades, discounts on training
courses, events and products, technical support, and much
more. To find out more visit: www.maplesoft.com/elite
Maplesoft Introduces BlockBuilder™ for Simulink®
Japanese Edition Maplesoft announced that BlockBuilder
for Simulink Japanese Edition is now available from Cybernet
Systems Co., Ltd. BlockBuilder for Simulink Japanese Edition
enables engineers to save time and dramatically reduce the
risk of error in the model-based design of dynamic systems.
Mathematics Survival Kit – Maple Edition – Online
Interview with the Author Now Available Listen
to author Jack Weiner’s interview about the Mathematics
Survival Kit-Maple Edition e-book. Jack gives an introduction
to the Mathematics Survival Kit, and discusses its application
and ideal audience. The Mathematics Survival Kit provides
students with quick, concise and friendly five-minute reviews
of 115 mathematical concepts, allowing them to navigate
through challenging homework assignments with greater ease.
Maplesoft
Sponsors MAA Project NExT Fellow Maplesoft
is sponsoring the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching), a professional
development program for new or recent PhDs in the mathematical
sciences. This highly successful program for college and
university professors is now in its 13th year and has helped
more than 800 alumni. Maplesoft’s support will aid
the professional development of Jonathan Rogness, PhD, a
visiting assistant professor with the University of Minnesota’s
School of Mathematics and Institute of Technology Center
for Educational Programs (ITCEP). This sponsorship continues
the collaboration between the MAA and Maplesoft. Other initiatives
between the Maplesoft and the MAA include the Maplesoft-MAA
Placement Test Suite.
Two New Student Tours Available for Viewing
View our Interactive Student Tours, Maple for Physics and
Maple for Calculus, to see how Maple can help students succeed
in math
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Case Study |
Power Math for Power
Circuits - How Maple’s 3D capabilities helped
solve the mystery of gate resistance on shoot through.
Desktop Engineering,
October 2006
Alan Elbanhawy, a director at Fairchild Semiconductor
International, used Maple to study and understand
physical phenomena such as metal-oxide-semiconductor
field-effect transistor (MOSFET) switching in power
circuits. They examined the effects of lumped and
distributed gate resistance on the phenomenon of
shoot through (also known as cross conduction) in
synchronous buck.
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MaplePrimes,
Maplesoft’s online user community was recently given
a major upgrade and redesign making the site more powerful
and easier to use. All posts now have an
information bar that combines the author information, posting
date and categories for the post. The navigation links have
been simplified, making it easier for you to get around
the site. Also, the search box has been enhanced to let
you also search Maplesoft.com and the web directly from
MaplePrimes. Visit MaplePrimes
to read more about the new features.
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Maple Adoption
Program™
Product Tips and Techniques
Maplesoft Seminar
Series
Maplesoft’s
monthly web seminars provide an excellent opportunity for
you to learn about interesting applications, new techniques,
and upcoming products. Hosted live by senior Maplesoft product
experts, these 1 hour interactive sessions offer the opportunity
to ask questions and interact with the presenter. Whether
you are a seasoned Maple user, or someone looking to find
out what Maple is all about, this seminar series will offer
an opportunity to learn something new and interesting.
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October 12th, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT - Introduction
to Global Optimization Toolbox for Maplesoft |
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October 18th, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT - Maplesoft-MAA
Placement Test Suite |
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October 24th, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT - Clickable
Calculus: Syntax-Free Maple for the Calculus Student |
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October 31st, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST - Introduction
to Maple 10 |
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November 7th, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST - Maple
Toolbox for MATLAB |
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November 9th, 2006,
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST - Maplesoft
Solutions for Engineering Research and Education |
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Application
Center Highlights
The Maple Application
Center has received the following new applications over the
last month:
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Maplesoft in the Press
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of this past months press coverage. The first piece of coverage
is a review by Scientific Computing of the MapleConnect
Premier Product nVizx. Many publications including, Design
Line, EE Times, DesignFax, and Computing News wrote about
the announcement of the Maple Toolbox for MATLAB product.
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Scientific
Computing, August 2006
Three New Leaves, Review by Felix Grant
“Many things can be done faster, more intuitively,
more productively and more enjoyably….Using nVizx
is like being given a lump of infinitely elastic clay
and an infinite space in which to play…As is usual,
Maple seeks to combine the best features from different
methods into a compound approach for dealing with literally
thousands of variables and constraints.” |
MCADCafe.com, September 2006
Maplesoft Announces Engineering Toolkits
“The Maplesoft Engineering Toolkits
are suites of Maple-powered analytical design tools that
offer a combination of powerful mathematical solvers with
domain specific functions for particular applications. Containing
a combination of Maplesoft products for a specific industry
or function, the toolkits are intended to enhance mechanical
and vehicular dynamic simulation in the engineering design
process.”
Computing
News, September 2006
Maple Toolbox for MATLAB Now Available
“The new Toolbox combines the best in symbolic and
numeric computation to develop mathematical solutions and
perform in-depth analysis of the results.”
EDA
DesignLine, EE Times, Embedded.com, Design Line, EE Product
Center, DesignFax Online, September 2006
Maplesoft offers MATLAB toolbox
“Following what it described as an extensive public
beta testing period, Canadian mathematical software vendor
Maplesoft Tuesday (Sept. 12) announced the availability
of the Maple Toolbox for Matlab. The Toolbox is said to
combine the best in symbolic and numeric computation to
develop mathematical solutions and perform in-depth analysis
of the results.”
TMCNet,
September 2006
Maplesoft Announces Engineering Toolkits to Enhance
Mechanical and Vehicular Simulation Processes
“Containing a combination of Maplesoft products for
a specific industry or function, the toolkits are intended
to enhance mechanical and vehicular dynamic simulation in
the engineering design process.”
In addition to these articles, check out the Press
Coverage area for all the latest coverage on Maplesoft.
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