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
From the Blogs
New packaging for power electronics
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Autonomous vehicles – so near and yet so far
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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.
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
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
View all Automotive Resources: White Papers, Datasheets, Web Seminars, and more