Wolfram SystemModeler 4.0.1

Wolfram Research, one of the world’s most respected computer, web, and cloud software companies-as well as a powerhouse of scientific and technical innovation, announce the update of SystemModeler 4.0, is an easy-to-use, next-generation modeling and simulation environment for cyber-physical systems.


Hydraulic actuators, battery stacks, biochemical systems and disease propagation are but a few things that now can be modeled more easily, thanks to a number of libraries and a library store that Wolfram Research has created for a new edition of its SystemModeler software package.

Wolfram SystemModeler 4.0, also comes with improved interfaces for building models, as well as better documentation and integration with Wolfram’s flagship Mathematica mathematical computing software.

SystemModeler provides a way for engineers and designers to create models of complex systems, as well as to simulate how such systems could run, using time-lapse visualizations. Wolfram obtained the SystemModeler code from MathCore Engineering, a company it purchased in 2011.

The company has since been building up the libraries to cover the many potential engineering and scientific uses for the software. A library provides the functionality for describing specific physical or mathematical properties, so they can be rendered correctly in a visual model.

In the field of electronics for instance, the updated software now has libraries for modeling digital electronics in the VHDL standard, for modeling multiphase electrical machines, and for the approximate modeling of large analog circuits.

SystemModeler is one of a number of software programs designed to help engineers visually model complex systems. Others include Maplesoft’s MapleSim and Simulink, from MathWorks.