Mentor Graphics Announces Automotive Industry's Most Comprehensive Portfolio of Electrical/Electronic Design Tools
WILSONVILLE, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 6, 2005—
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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