System Modeling
Full System Integration
True system modeling provides an interactive environment in which designers can verify their specific part of an overall puzzle, a puzzle in which any small change can affect the final outcome. “What-if” tradeoffs can be made, performance as a function of component tolerances can be determined, and many other analyses can be performed.
Mentor Graphic's SystemVision and BridgePoint products successfully address the requirements for system modeling in the transportation, aerospace, medical and other industries. The system model can be used to anticipate and fix design issues before actual hardware is built. Designers can discover unanticipated systemic interactions in the prototyping and production phases of the design process.
Virtualized Integration
System integration no longer requires all of the components to be available. Virtual system integration can take place at the time of system requirements definition or during preliminary or detailed design, allowing critical problems to be uncovered well before final system integration.
- Inter-discipline modeling (HW/SW/Sensor/Actuator/Plant) facilitates global optimization
- Modeling facilitates moving platform SW/HW integration earlier in the design cycle, reducing schedule risk
- Synthesis (code generation) facilitates more design options, leading to better performance and/or lower cost
Design Medical Electronic Devices Faster and Improve Productivity
On-demand Web Seminar: This webinar demonstrates partitioning and testing of firmware and digital hardware, interface compliance, and performance validation. View On-demand Web Seminar
Design Tasks
Model Driven Development
Model-driven development provides a structure for managing complexity while, at each design stage, making it possible to directly link design functionality back to original requirements and functional specifications.
System Integration, Simulation and Analysis
Using specialized algorithms to analyze a model of a system, simulation provides the ability to successively verify new designs from concept to implementation.
White Papers
A Requirements-Driven System Design Process (with a Preview of ARP 4754A)
This presentation, which was delivered at IESF Mil-Aero in Long beach, CA, on Sept 13, 2011, discusses the importance of a requirements-driven systems development process. It also introduces the new regulatory... View White Paper
Concept to X
This paper describes ten steps to applying Model Driven Development (MDD) to your design process and shows that the process is neither alien to current thinking, nor impossibly expensive to implement. View White Paper
Robust Analysis for Switch-Mode Power Supply Designs
This paper illustrates the use of several robust analysis options available with the SystemVision simulation tool. Both parametric and statistical analyses are presented using a buck-boost converter as... View White Paper
Multimedia
SystemVision for Successive Verification
Watch a presentation featuring SystemVision for Successive Verification. View Product Demo
BridgePoint UML Use Case Diagram Creation
This tutorial shows how to create and draw a use case diagram using BridgePoint UML. You will learn how to add a use case diagram to the model, how to draw actors, how to draw use cases, and how to draw... View Product Demo
Blogs
Analog Modeling - Part 2
blog post: In Analog Modeling – Part 1 I reviewed the importance of equation selection in the analog modeling process. In a nutshell, the first step in getting good simulation results is choosing equations that…View Blog Post
Analog Modeling - Part 1
blog post: I recently spent some time rummaging around my basement. I suppose my basement is not unlike many others — it’s kind of my family’s catch-all storage place for items too big to fit in a closet.…View Blog Post