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Volcano™ VSA
Vehicle Systems Architect

Vehicle Systems Design

D A T A S H E E T
FEATURES AND BENEFITS:
■■ Software architecture design
defines software components and
compositions
■■ Hardware architecture design
defines ECUs, networks, sensors,
and actuators
■■ Scripting language support
provides implementation of
consistency checks or custom
operations

The Volcano Vehicle System Architect is part of the comprehensive Mentor Graphics vehicle
systems design toolset, which provides a robust medium for an AUTOSAR-based vehicle system
design flow, including E/E architectural design, application software development, virtual
validation, and software test.

Enabling AUTOSAR System Design for Development
Teams
The Volcano Vehicle Systems Architect (VSA) is a system design tool for
AUTOSAR-based systems. It enables engineers to design automotive softwre
and hardware architectures and to manage the relationships between the two.At
the same time, it provides the user with required support to manage industrialscale projects with distributed development partners.
A “Correct-by-Design” Development Methodology
VSA enables the design of the software and hardware architecture of an
AUTOSAR system, the mapping of the software components to electronic
control units (ECUs), and the system signals exchanged between them. VSA
supports the full AUTOSAR data model. It enables industrial-scale
development projects with multiple users and iterative development through the
use of integrated configuration management and merge technologies.
By leveraging the EAST-ADL language and the results of the TIMMO
research project, VSA enables users to capture requirements on a higher level
of abstraction than even AUTOSAR supports. This provides the foundation for
a contract-based development process where correctness can be guaranteed at
design time.

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■■ Consistency checks help ensure
consistency of design data, both
at the component and system
levels
■■ Supports the full AUTOSAR meta
model and its formats to provide
true AUTOSAR compliance
■■ Captures system-level timing
requirements by incorporating
TIMMO elements within the
AUTOSAR objects of the design
■■ User-configurable organization of
design data maximizes reuse of
existing objects
■■ Powerful merge features allows
combined design data to be
edited in various locations
■■ Generates AUTOSAR ECU extract
and other AUTOSAR standard files
■■ Supports the ODX diagnostics
exchange format
■■ Open, flexible Eclipse-based
platform enables creation of
design environment tailored to
individual needs
■■ Integration with industry-standard
configuration mangement
systems