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

IESF 2008 Presentations

Areas covered included Electrical System Design and Analysis, Automotive Networking, Harness Engineering, Mechatronics Systems Design, System Modeling, and Industry Standards such as AUTOSAR. Download

Hansen

The April 2009 Hansen Report is now available, featuring an extensive profile on Mentor Graphics and new automotive tool developments. View Report

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

News & Press