Mentor, a Siemens business Helps CEVT to significantly accelerate and streamline the design of its advanced next-generation in-vehicle network CEVT combines Mentor's Volcano® VSA COM Designer web design tool With Systemite AB's SystemWeaver information management tool, automated processes are used to replace time-consuming manual tasks, saving up to 50% of the time in designing and validating end solutions.
The integrated Mentor / SystemWeaver toolchain is based on the AUTOSAR standard for data consistency and traceability to meet automotive requirements and helps reduce the design complexity of a wide range of automotive functions and signals.
Demand for autopilot and new energy-efficient EVs is growing rapidly, presenting unique challenges for automotive engineers in charge of the increasingly complex automotive network needed to design a new generation of vehicles, "said Jeremy Parker, business project manager at CEVT. 'Mentor's VSA COM Designer network design tools have helped CEVT overcome these challenges by enabling our engineers to reduce time-consuming manual work and focus more on high-value tasks to help us compete in the marketplace Advantage, and then win the market.
The VSA COM Designer tool is part of the Volcano VSx ™ Design Tool Suite, which provides a powerful tool for AUTOSAR-based automotive system design flows, including E / E architecture design, application development, virtual verification and software testing.
With VSA COM Designer, you can define sensor-to-actuator, network-to-ECU signals as well as unpredictable timing requirements for complex signals and sensor / actuator chains that will enable you to define the functional timing requirements clearly, This definition can then be used as input to the network design flow to the ECU. In the signal chain or gateway application case, the user can balance the amount of time spent on different network segments with the amount of time spent on the internal ECU. In addition, the VSA COM The analysis capabilities of the Designer tool also verify that all signals arrive on time, calculate the signal's timing margin, and evaluate the amount of idle space on each network segment.