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
Blog: Automotive Industry
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Have you thanked an engineer lately?
blog post: Cars coming off assembly lines around the world today are far more complex than ever before, but are they any less reliable – or more so? I’d say the latter, and attribute much of the improvement to the…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
White Paper: 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 White Paper
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: White Papers, 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