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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