Vehicle Network Design
- The Volcano family includes network design tools, embedded software and test and validation tools for all major automotive networks.
- Volcano provides the automotive industry with comprehensive networking and data communication solutions that support the user in the development of in-vehicle networking systems.
- Using the Volcano concept, network design is made easy and predictable, guaranteeing data communications which reduces the verification effort to almost zero and eliminates warranty and change costs caused by networking issues.
- Mentor Graphics is a premium member of AUTOSAR, actively participating in the development of an open network communication standard for the automotive industry.
- Networking and data communication solutions for Automotive networking systems
- Predictable and guaranteed data communications
- Design to correctness - a deterministic approach - not a probabilistic approach
- Deterministic behavior which guarantees built-in Quality
- Proven Embedded Software Quality
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Network Design Tools
Mathematical modeling to analyze signal processing requirements according to maximum age of signal allowed between publishers and consumer of signals.In-Vehicle Software
Embedded software IP for use in automotive electronic systems ECUs.
AUTOSAR Solutions
Mentor Graphics is a premium member of AUTOSAR, the standards organization working to create an open standard for automotive engineering architecture. more...
Featured Vehicle Network Design Techpubs
Designing and Implementing Architectures for Distributed Automotive E/E Systems
The complexity of electrical and electronic systems in cars has grown drastically during the past decade. Model-based function design and simulation are widely used by the Automotive E/E community today in order to manage this complexity. Emerging new standards, such as AUTOSAR, define standardized interfaces to low-level software and, most importantly, introduce a new level of abstraction to function implementers. This improves the reusability of software components, but unfortunately, there is little guidance on how to translate the results of model-based function design into robust and efficient system implementations in a highly distributed environment. There's also little connection to the physical side of the design process. This paper outlines a proposed system-level design methodology, covering architecture design, scheduling of networks and tasks distributed across multiple ECUs, harness design, and metrics generation.
Developing Automotive Products Using the EAST-ADL2, an AUTOSAR Compliant Architecture Description Language
Current development trends in automotive software feature increasing standardization of the embedded software structure. But, it still remains the critical issue of the overall engineering information management to control the system definition and manage its complexity. System modeling based on an Architecture Description Language (ADL) is a way to keep these assets within one information structure. The original EAST-ADL was developed in the EAST-EEA project and basic concepts were reused in the AUTOSAR standardization initiative. The original EAST-ADL is currently refined in the ATESST project to EAST-ADL2. This paper presents the results of the language extension provided by the EAST-ADL2 domain model and focuses on its possible extension of the AUTOSAR standard to support decomposition of E/E automotive systems.
In-Vehicle Network Design Methodology
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