Model-Driven Systems Development

The development and intelligent use of computer models by the aerospace and military industries are critical to their design processes. Designers can use model-driven system development to test and verify compatibility with harsh operating environments and compliance with strict reliability requirements in their complex system designs.

Tools from Mentor Graphics allow our aerospace and military customers to design digital devices that meet or exceed their rigorous standards. You can avoid cost overruns, schedule delays, low reliability, and even product failures related to the development of large-scale systems and platforms.

  • Evaluate new ideas
  • Optimize designs for cost and manufacturability
  • Deliver the highest quality at the best cost

This approach also allows system designers to create system models before physical hardware is available. The models can incorporate various technologies, including mechanical, magnetic, hydraulic, thermal effects, or other characteristics that can be described using algebraic or differential equations. Plus, a model-based design approach allows designers to leverage transfer function-, RTL-, algorithmic-, and even specification-based models.

Products

SystemVision

System engineers in military and aerospace can create and analyze analog, mixed signal, digital, and electromechanical designs with SystemVision. You can explore concepts, specify system functionality, investigate architectural partitions, and integrate implementation of electronics, sensors/actuators, controls, and embedded software, all in one virtual environment. Learn more about SystemVision

  • Reduce development time, simplify hardware/software integration, and reduce manufacturing and warranty costs
  • Perform design verification of hierarchical schematic and circuit elements
  • Verify concepts through block diagrams and transfer functional blocks
  • Supports industry-standard languages such as VHDL-AMS, SPICE, and C

BridgePoint

BridgePoint is a complete suite of UML tools many military and aerospace companies use to develop real-time embedded systems. It has been used to develop highly demanding systems such as launch vehicles, life-critical medical systems, fault-tolerant telecom systems, resource-constrained electronics, and distributed, discrete-event HLA simulation systems. Learn more about BridgePoint

  • Generate 100% complete, target-optimized code
  • Reduce defect rates through early execution of target-independent application models and test of application-independent designs; both of which can be re-used
  • Accelerate development and speed ramp-up of products with multiple releases and growing or changing requirements
  • Compress project schedules with concurrent design and application analysis modeling
  • Optimize resources and fine-tune performance
  • Reduce maintenance costs and extend product lifetimes

Products

  • SystemVision

    SystemVision is an integrated and scalable environment for circuit, system and mechatronic modeling.

  • BridgePoint Comprehensive xtUML Tool Suite

    Model-driven development for real-time embedded applications. Captures the design in UML 2.0 with extensions for platform-independent modeling.

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Aerospace and Military Solutions

Model-Driven Systems Development

The development and intelligent use of computer models are critical to our aerospace and military customers who must ensure that devices are compatible with harsh operating environments and meet their exacting reliability requirements.

Safety Critical Design

Our tools, approaches, and processes help our aerospace and defense customers meet mission-critical quality (DO-254), cost, and safety objectives for their FPGA designs – with no compromises in security, reliability, durability, and efficiency.

Electrical Systems Design and Harness Engineering

We provide our aerospace and military customers with proven tools they need to design their complex electrical systems, control logic, and transmission paths while ensuring safety and reliability.

Aerospace and Military Resources

FPGA Verification with Assertions: Why Bother? A Painless and Easy Step-by-Step Approach to Adopting Assertions

White Paper: This paper provides a practical, easy, step-by- step set of instructions on how to add assertions to your RTL design. By following the simple guidelines provided in this paper you will benefit by cutting... View White Paper

Tackling the Thermal Design Challenges of Smaller, Lighter, and More Efficient Avionics

White Paper: With every Kelvin increase in temperature, the risk of avionic component failure increases. For civil and military applications, the thermal characteristics of avionic components directly influence overall... View White Paper

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