Mentor Graphics provides the most comprehensive set of electrical and electronic design automation solutions for the automotive, commercial vehicle, and off-highway industries around the world, including OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.
Bring automotive design complexity
under control
System design tools from Mentor Graphics help you control the increasing complexity of designing and manufacturing today’s vehicles. Be it a sports car or a long-haul truck, each new model, feature, option, and variant multiplies the number of components and configurations that must be designed, integrated, produced, and managed.
Using proven electronic design automation (EDA) methods of modeling, simulation, and analysis, Mentor Graphics solutions help you speed the design and implementation of vehicle systems including:
- in-vehicle multiplex networks
- electrical distribution systems
- wiring harnesses
- embedded subsystems (and code)
- sensors and actuators, and more.
Technologies for Your Design Focus
Systems modeling technology from Mentor Graphics enables engineers to capture requirements and simulate the behavior and interactions of proposed systems and components in the context of the vehicle’s electronic and physical environments. These correct-by-construction techniques allow problems to be discovered early and subsystems to integrate and work together.
Mentor’s PCB design tools and fluid flow analysis applications, among others, are used by automotive engineers to deliver clean, correctly-designed subsystems. Plus, all of our solutions are supported by a worldwide team of experts in electrical and electronic design and design methodologies.
AUTOSAR and JasPar
Mentor Graphics is committed to the success of the automotive industry. We are premium members of AUTOSAR and JasPar, who are working to foster open standards for auto engineering architecture. We have strategic alliances with other key suppliers such as Agilent Technologies, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, UGS, and MathWorks. Learn more about Mentor and AUTOSAR
Success Stories
Shanghai Automotive Industries Corporation
SAIC will use the Volcano Network Architect (VNA) and the Volcano TELLUS test and validation solutions. More
Blog: Automotive Industry
Choosing sides
blog post: We form opinions quickly these days and increasingly we gravitate toward those who agree with us and tune out opposing arguments. It happens with political and social issues and it’s happening with Toyota…View Blog Post
Credit where credit is due
blog post: 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
Automotive Solutions and Mentor Tools
System Modeling
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) provides effective, practical reuse of target-independent application models.
Automotive Networking
Networking and data communication solutions for Automotive networking systems.
Mechatronics Simulation
A virtual lab for creating and analyzing analog, digital, and mixed-signal systems.
Electrical Distribution System
Integrated applications and powerful design data management deliver seamless flows.
Automotive Resources
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
Hansen Report
Report: The April 2009 Hansen Report is now available, featuring an extensive profile on Mentor Graphics and new automotive tool developments. View Report
CHS Overview
(PDF, 2mb) View Datasheet
View all Automotive Resources: Techpubs, Datasheets, Web Seminars, and more
News
- Mentor Graphics Acquires Virtual Garage Technology from Freescale to Expand Electrical Design Scope
- 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
- ASIA Company Reduces Wire Harness Design Cycle Time Using Mentor Graphics CHS Tools
- Mentor Chairman, Leading Industry Analyst, Boeing, SAAB, Bell Helicopter to Speak at IESF 2009 Military and Aerospace Event