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'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
Improving Medical System Design using a Multi-Discipline Development Environment
On-demand Web Seminar:
This Web seminar describes a top-down, multi-discipline, model-driven development (MDD) flow that allows system models to be built at any level of abstraction. 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.
Techpubs and Demos
System Modeling Techpubs
Simulating Vector Controlled Induction Motors Using Space Vector Modulation
Techpub: This paper illustrates the development of a comprehensive vector-controlled induction motor drive system. Power delivery schemes will also be implemented and analyzed, including current-regulated pulsewidth... View Techpub
AUTOSAR and FlexRay: A Tale of Two Standards
Techpub: The emerging automotive design software standard known as AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) began as the product of an industry-wide effort among European auto makers and their suppliers. Its... View Techpub
Mechatronic System Integration and Design
Techpub: While today’s multi-discipline mechatronic systems significantly outperform legacy systems, they are also much more complex by nature—requiring close cooperation between multiple design disciplines... View Techpub
SystemVision for Successive Verification
Product DemoWatch a presentation featuring SystemVision for Successive Verification. View Video
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News & Press
- Mentor Graphics Announces Support of Model-driven Design for Six Sigma in the Automotive Industry
- Magneti Marelli Reduces Design and Simulation Time Using Mentor Graphics SystemVision for Safety Function Simulation
- Mentor Graphics Announces Automotive Industry’s Most Comprehensive Portfolio of Electrical/Electronic Design Tools
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