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
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
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
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
- Wrightspeed, Chrysler, The Hansen Report, Daimler Trucks and Mentor Graphics among the speakers at the 10th IESF Conference for the Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Industry
- Volvo Trucks and Mentor Graphics Successfully Complete AUTOSAR Project
- Shanghai Automotive Industries Adopts Mentor Graphics Volcano Automotive Network Design Tools
- More
blogs
Credit where credit is due
Do you ever watch the credits at the end of a movie? When you see all those names and titles for jobs that might not mean much to those outside the business, it’s evidence that filmmaking is a complex undertaking…View Blog Post