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. Customers include most of the leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

auto interiorBring 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 whilst reducing costs and improving quality, these solutions include:

Standards - AUTOSAR, GENIVI, SAE, ISO 26262 and JasPar

Mentor Graphics is committed to the success of the automotive industry. We are premium members of leading standard organizations such as AUTOSAR, GENIVI and JasPar, who are working to foster open standards for auto engineering architecture. Learn more about Mentor and AUTOSAR

JasPAR LIN Genivi
FlexRay AutoSAR

IESF TV

IESF TV, over 30 hours of videos from past IESF conferences on Electrical and Electronics design issues in the automotive industry View IESF TV

Blogs

Technical Resources

White Paper: Diagram Generation Tools Support Modern Automotive Electrical Design Processes(PDF, 3mb)

White Paper: ECAD Tools Level the Playing Field for Automotive Electrical Design(PDF, 2mb)

White Paper: What Race Car Teams Can Learn from Passenger Car Designers(PDF, 1mb)

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.

AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is an open and standardized automotive software architecture, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers, suppliers and tool developers.

Embedded Software

Realize the advantages of in-vehicle infotainment with open source software tools and services.

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.

Flow Simulation & Thermal Measurement

Helping automotive designers analyze performance everywhere on the vehicle, inside and out.

Automotive Resources

Hansen Report - May, 2012

Report: (PDF, 66kb) The May 2012 Hansen Report is now available, featuring an extensive profile on Mentor Graphics and new automotive tool developments. View Report

Step by Step...Confidently: Through the AUTOSAR Round Trip

White Paper: This paper demonstrates the interaction and the interoperability of architecture and model-based design environments in five steps using the examples of MATLAB, Simulink, and Embedded Coder by MathWorks,... View White Paper

Round-Trip Engineering Key to AUTOSAR-based Development

White Paper: This paper discusses how round-trip engineering can be used as an iterative development process and describes interoperability between tools from Mentor and MathWorks. View White Paper

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