System Modeling and Analysis Solutions g Model Driven Development provides a framework for n i l dealing with a complex development process by allowing e d each stakeholder to participate in the process at an o m appropriate level of abstraction, yet making it possible m to directly link design functionality back to original e t requirements and functional specifications. It enables s y architectural exploration and provides a structure for s / communication between stakeholders. And, it allows an m o application’s behavior to be analyzed independently of the c r. implementation strategy. o t n e m . w w w Why Model? SystemVision for System Integration, Simulation & Analysis Model Driven Development (MDD) enables a modeling and simulation platform for virtual integration of diverse The SystemVision multi-discipline design environment technologies. was specifically designed to allow fluent design and simulation of complex systems in a single simulation • Modeling facilitates moving full platform-component, environment. With SystemVision, engineers enjoy a subsystem, and HW/SW integration early in the modeling environment that can simultaneously handle all product life cycle, reducing risk aspects of system design. • Synthesis/automation allows exploration of full platform design options, leading to better design performance and/or lower cost • Platform-independent, domain-specific modeling allows separation of engineering domains, but with abstraction of models to allow communication and collaboration across domains • Modeling allows designers to pull different design flows together into a coordinated, integration system, even if he/she is not familiar with a model outside of his/her own domain • Modeling improves chances for finding and fixing problems early, saving time and money SystemVision integrates models of mixed analog/digital circuits; thermal, mechanical and hydraulic systems; and continuous and sampled-data control systems. It provides for the fluent, multi-level model integration required for true systems design and analysis. It combines math-based analysis with analog and digital An MDD methodology manages the process from circuit simulation, without using choice-limiting, concept exploration and acceptance to full-scale proprietary formats. Joining high-level behavioral development, breaking the system integration models with lower-level device models in a multi- bottleneck. disciplined environment allows for rapid examination of design tradeoffs. • Use models to drive the design process • Create models to capture the design phase • Reduce development time • Use models to validate requirements, design • Simplify HW/SW integration • Transform models from one view to the next • Promote design reuse • Reduce manufacturing & warrant costs SystemVision, an intuitive virtual-prototyping design environment, allows full verification of successive design stages: From the Functional stage, where an executable specification can be defined and tested, through the Architectural stage, where functions are partitioned, to the Implementation stage, where the final system SW/HW is integrated and tested on a virtual target platform. SystemVision SVX BridgePoint Executable, Translatable UML Suite SystemVision SVX is a virtual execution environment for developing, unifying, and verifying sophisticated multi- BridgePoint is a comprehensive design environment discipline systems that connects otherwise isolated, based on reusable, target-independent, executable domain-specific modeling and software tools dynamically specifications and models. It provides executable, - at any phase of the design process - over a secure, translatable UML models that permit defect detection managed signal channel. and repair. The SVX client-server architecture provides for precise, distributed, time-synchronized interfaces between signal generators and consumers. These interfaces are easily placed, as symbols, in graphical tools such as SystemVision, Simulink, and LabVIEW. In addition, a C/C++ API makes it easy for application embedded software to interact with models of control systems, multi-physics subsystems, sensors & actuators, and analog & digital electronics. SVX Packaging Options • SystemVision SVX client for SystemVision BridgePoint xtUML tools enable engineers to develop, model, and test their concepts in a platform-independent environment before the target hardware is built. This allows important design decisions to be made early… and correctly. • Work at a more powerful level of abstraction to write more code in less time. Solve problems more easily by dealing with fewer irrelevant details. • Test ideas quickly. Since the models can be executed independent of hardware/system software details, you can test concepts without having to bind yourself • SystemVision SVX client for Simulink to an unresolved platform. • SystemVision SVX client for LabVIEW Graphical Models Increase Understanding • SystemVision SVX client for SystemC Diagrams expose abstraction, which allows us to reason • SystemVision SVX client for C/C++ about their correctness. The views in BridgePoint • SystemVision SVX client for Java are concise enough to be understood by all project • SystemVision SVX client for xtUML stakeholders, including non-technical personnel. • SVX Application Server for multi-client and The design process begins with a system-level overview multicomputer application signal routing in which the system is partitioned into components and their interfaces. These components, in turn, contain the behaviors of specific elements that further describe the design. The models are reusable and platform- independent. All of the fundamental BridgePoint building blocks (class diagrams, state machines, action language, etc.) enable fast and accurate development, executable models, and 100% translatable output. The components of electro-mechanical system design. Virtual System Integrator Designers need a software evaluation tool that can deliver the same actions and reactions as the planned hardware environment. The Mentor Graphics Virtual System Integrator (VSI) is that tool. VSI is a software validation environment that behaves like an integrated system made up of hardware elements such as electronic control units (ECU), buses, sensors, and actuators, etc. It enables early validation of software functionality before actual hardware is available.vv • Supports AUTOSAR “Virtual Functional Bus simulation” plus RTOS execution at component and With VSI, embedded system software can be verified runnable levels at any time during the design process, with minimal hardware system prototyping. The underlying MDD • Enables early validation of software functionality technology within VSI ensures that embedded code before actual hardware is available tested therein is ready to become the application. • Reduces the need for physical prototypes and VSI is part of the comprehensive Volcano Vehicle testbenches Systems toolset, which provides a robust medium for an AUTOSAR-based vehicle system design flow, including: • E/E architectural design • Application software development • Virtual validation • Software test VSI receives embedded code from the BridgePoint development tool and system characteristics from Vehicle System Architect (VSA). VSI creates a virtual bus to evaluate the SW and HW interactions among these elements. Visit the Mentor Graphics website at www.mentor.com/systemmodeling for the latest product information. ©2010 Mentor Graphics Corporation. All rights reserved. SystemVision is a trademark and ModelSim is a registered trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. 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