Automotive Networking
Significant problems can arise when incorporating automotive network systems, including ECU subsystems for functions such as body electronics and power train, into the overall vehicle design.
The Volcano suite of vehicle networking and data communications solutions can help you manage the large number of possible combinations of signal interactions brought about by the increasing number of ECUs and subsystems in today’s complex vehicle designs.
Volcano provides a top-down, deterministic network design and verification process that allows auto engineers to anticipate networking requirements and execute designs that are based on known signal processing needs.
Products
Volcano Network Architect (VNA)
The Volcano Network Architect is Mentor Graphic's design and analysis tool for CAN and LIN communication systems. VNA provides design, analysis and administrative functions and supports designing systems with legacy electronic control units (ECUs) with fixed messaging.
Volcano Target Package (VTP) for CAN & LIN
The Volcano Target Package is embedded communication software used for automotive design. It offers maximum flexibility and ease-of-use for application programmers. VTP consists of a configuration tool and the software modules necessary to provide CAN and LIN communication for your application.
Volcano Bootloader (BL)
The Volcano Bootloader is a standalone program that enables downloadable software updates through a CAN connection.
AUTOSAR Solutions
Mentor Graphics is a premium member of AUTOSAR, the standards organization working to create an open standard for automotive engineering architecture. Learn More about AUTOSAR
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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News
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