AUTOSAR Solutions
The AUTOSAR standard does a great job of standardizing but doesn’t necessarily simplify the design process. Mentor's tools take the complexity out of the AUTOSAR-based systems design process and allow development teams to focus on delivering application software, ECUs, or the networking system.
Substantial cost savings in the development process can be achieved by moving significant decisions and verification tasks to the front end of the design cycle. The comprehensive Volcano Vehicle Systems design toolset (VSx), the most complete AUTOSAR design platform available today, is an integrated tool suite for top-down vehicle system and ECU design. It provides a robust medium for an AUTOSAR-based vehicle system design flow including E/E architectural design, application soft-ware development, virtual validation, and software test.
Principles of the Mentor VSx Tool Suite
- Design process covered by a set of point tools, deployable step-by-step according to customer needs
- Based on standards such as AUTOSAR and EAST-ADL
- Enables shifting validation effort from physical prototypes to a virtual environment
Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect (VSA)
The Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect is a systems design tool for AUTOSAR-based systems. It enables engineers to design, explore, and compare electronic and SW architectures. Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect
Volcano VSA COM Designer
The Volcano VSA COM Designer is a network design tool that enables users to design automotive CAN, LIN and FlexRay networks in keeping with modern systems engineering practices, while managing timing requirements, variants, configurations, and releases. Volcano VSA COM Designer
Volcano Virtual System Integrator (VSI)
The Volcano Virtual System Integrator is a platform for verification of distributed embedded system software. VSI enables early validation of software functionality before actual hardware is available. Volcano Virtual System Integrator
Volcano VSTAR
Volcano VSTAR AUTOSAR Basic Software (BSW) stack provides a fully AUTOSAR 4.0 compliant and scalable middleware for ECU design, which abstracts the application from the HW-dependent layer. It is supported by a complete top-down development tool suite. Volcano VSTAR
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
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