Mentor Graphics Announces Automotive Industry's Most Comprehensive Portfolio of Electrical/Electronic Design Tools
06 10월 2005 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced it has
significantly extended its already successful automotive offerings
and is launching the industry's most comprehensive set of
electrical and electronic (E/E) design solutions for the automotive
market. With the recently acquired Volcano automotive networking
solutions and SystemVision(TM), a new modeling and simulation tool
for automotive mechatronics sub-systems, Mentor now has
best-in-class tools for design & analysis of the electrical
distribution system and its associated harnesses, for embedded
system/software and for in-vehicle network design. These offerings
are the foundation for a tool suite aimed at addressing the
complete automotive E/E design process. Mentor also announced that
the company is now a premium member of AUTOSAR, the standards
organization working to create an open standard for automotive
engineering architecture. "Automotive systems design has two
essential components -- mechanical and electrical/electronic. In
the E/E design arena, Mentor is leading the way with not just the
most comprehensive product portfolio of any company in the
industry, but also the largest and most richly populated assembly
of specialist engineers in the market," said Walden C. Rhines,
Mentor Graphics CEO and chairman. "Rising complexity and emerging
standards such as AUTOSAR mean the time is right for a full
electronic design solution, and Mentor is unique in offering
solutions to serve the broad range of automotive electrical and
electronics design needs. We believe our investment and commitment
here will significantly benefit our customers for many years
ahead." Volcano Acquisition Extends Mentor's Strengths into
Automotive Networking The company's strength in electrical systems
and harness design was extended to in-vehicle network design with
the recent acquisition of Volcano Communications Technologies. (See
press release, Mentor Graphics Strengthens its Automotive Solutions
Portfolio with the Acquisition of Volcano Communications
Technologies, May 26, 2005). Volcano is an industry leader of
networking and data communication solutions that supports the
development of in-vehicle networking systems. Customers include
Audi, BMW, Bosch, Visteon and Volvo. SystemVision SystemVision
enables the system designer to model systems and components with a
virtual prototype and use simulation to perform the critical
analyses of electrical, mechanical, thermal and hydraulic
sub-systems needed to help ensure successful automotive system
design. SystemVision is based on a mixed-signal modeling language,
VHDL-AMS, which as a vendor -- independent standard language
enables very efficient information exchange between original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers, reducing
communication problems with the concept of executable
specifications. Mr. Hessel, speaker of Working Group AK 30 of the
German association for Research on Automobile Technology
(Forschungsvereinigung Automobiltechnik, FAT) within VDA (German
Association of the Automotive Industry) said, "SystemVision is one
of the reference simulators for AK 30, because of the language
coverage and good performance." Mr. Hessel is team leader,
Engineering Methods and Tools at Hella KgaA Hueck & Co, one of
SystemVision's first customers. SystemVision is fully integrated
with Mentor's successful electrical systems design solution,
Capital Harness Systems(TM) (CHS), and complements CHS's unique
electrical analysis tool, Capital Analysis(TM). SystemVision is
available today and priced ranging from the E/E version at
USD$9,000 to the high end SystemVision Pro Plus Bundle at
USD$38,000. CHS -- The Leading Suite for Electrical Distribution
System Design Mentor's CHS product suite captures and allocates all
system devices into the vehicle topology. Merged with option &
variant definitions the entire electrical distribution system (EDS)
is synthesized and stored centrally for reuse across the
enterprise. CHS design tools are fully supported by analysis, view
synthesis and enterprise integration tools that support
correct-by-design outputs that minimize warranty exposure. Mentor
is a leading supplier of EDS and harness solutions to major OEMs
and Tier 1 suppliers and CHS is now being deployed as the
next-generation solution for many of these companies. Embedded
Solutions Round Out Mentor's Offering Mentor Graphics completes its
comprehensive automotive solution with its "design to deployment"
embedded software products. The Nucleus family of embedded software
products offers an integrated developers' toolkit, ranging from UML
high-level design tools through to the royalty-free real-time
operating system (RTOS) and middleware specifically targeted to
automotive applications and processors. Next Steps Mentor Graphics
will continue to expand its offerings to the automotive industry as
the growth of in-vehicle electronics and software continues. Mentor
Graphics intends to become the preferred source of E/E design
automation for this industry segment and make significant
contributions to achieve the goals of higher quality and reduced
costs of today's competitive environment. As electrical/electronic
and software offerings become more important in the vehicle
functionality and customer impact, Mentor will increasingly
contribute in providing solutions to better address: -- Functional
design, allocation, and reusability -- System and electronic
control unit (ECU) design and integration -- Vehicle architecture
definition and optimization -- Network design and optimization --
Multi-domain analysis -- In-vehicle software and mechatronics
design -- Electrical distribution systems design and manufacturing
-- Documentation and diagnostics Additionally, Mentor continues to
strengthen strategic alliances and relationships with other key
suppliers to the automotive industry such as UGS, Mathworks, and
Dassault Systemes in order to address the industry need for a
complete design environment. For additional information on Mentor's
automotive offerings, go to www.mentor.com. About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing
products, consulting services and award-winning support for the
world's most successful electronics, semiconductor and
transportation companies. Established in 1981, the company reported
revenues over the last 12 months of about $700 million and employs
approximately 3,900 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are
located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon USA
97070-7777. The company has more than 70 offices worldwide,
including Detroit, Munich and Tokyo. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/. Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark
and SystemVision, Capital Harness Systems and Capital Analysis are
trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or
product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective owners.
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