EXHIBIT 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors
Ansoft Corporation:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statement (No. 333-134788) on Form S-8 of Ansoft Corporation of our reports dated June 7, 2007 with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of Ansoft Corporation as of April 30, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 30, 2007, and the related financial statement schedule, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of April 30, 2007 and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of April 30, 2007, which reports appear in the April 30, 2007 annual report on Form 10-K of Ansoft Corporation.

Our report on the consolidated financial statements referred to above contains an explanatory paragraph describing Ansoft Corporation’s change in accounting principle adopted in 2007, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Share Based Payment.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 7, 2007