Vehicle System Design
Automotive SW and Networking System Solutions
The Volcano family includes system design tools, network design tools, virtual validation tools, test tools, and embedded software for automotive electronic and SW systems using multiplexed communication networks.
Shorten Design Time
- Through fewer design iterations
- Through reduced testing needs
- Focus on the requirements on your system instead of the implementation
Customizable for Improving User Productivity
- Eclipse-based architecture allows integration into customers’ plug-ins
- User-defined scripts for custom consistency checks, etc.
Improved Quality
- Mathematical timing analysis
- Automated consistency checks
Improved Time to Market and Response to Change
- Through flexibility of the communication
- Through empowering the OEM to control the network
Automotive Solutions
Mentor Graphics is a premium member of AUTOSAR, the standards organization working to create an open standard for automotive engineering architecture. Automotive Solutions
Vehicle System Design Products
Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect (VSA)
The Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect is a systems design tool for AUTOSAR-based systems. It enables engineers to design, explore, and compare electronic and SW architectures.
Volcano Network Architect (VNA)
The Volcano Network Architect is Mentor Graphic's design and analysis tool for CAN and LIN communication systems. VNA provides design, analysis and administrative functions and supports designing systems with legacy electronic control units (ECUs) with fixed messaging.
Volcano Target Package (VTP) for CAN & LIN
The Volcano Target Package (VTP) embedded communication software consists of a Configuration Tool and the software modules necessary to provide CAN and LIN communication for your application.
Bootloader (BL)
The Volcano Bootloader is a standalone program which enables software updates of any software module within the ECU – through the CAN (Controller Area Network) network. This functionality requires that the ECU has flash memory.
Techpubs and Successes
Vehicle Network Design Techpubs
Developing Automotive Products Using the EAST-ADL2, an AUTOSAR Compliant Architecture Description Language
techpub: Current development trends in automotive software feature increasing standardization of the embedded software structure. But, it still remains the critical issue of the overall engineering information management... View Techpub
Designing and Implementing Architectures for Distributed Automotive E/E Systems
techpub: The complexity of electrical and electronic systems in cars has grown drastically during the past decade. Model-based function design and simulation are widely used by the Automotive E/E community today... View Techpub
Datasheets
- Vehicle Systems Architect (PDF, 124kb)
- Volcano Network Architect (PDF, 132kb)
- Volcano Target Package (VTP) (PDF, 584kb)
- Volcano LIN Target (PDF, 144kb)
- Volcano Bootloader (PDF, 291kb)
News & Press
- Mentor Chairman, Leading Industry Analyst, Boeing, SAAB, Bell Helicopter to Speak at IESF 2009 Military and Aerospace Event
- Mentor Graphics Strengthens its Automotive Solutions with New Integrated AUTOSAR Design Environment
- Mentor Graphics Announces Details of Expanded Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum for the Automotive Industry
- Volvo Trucks and Mentor Graphics Successfully Complete AUTOSAR Project
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