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Volcano VSTAR

Vehicle Systems Design

AUTOSAR

D A T A S H E E T
PRODUCT FEATURES:
■■ AUTOSAR 4.2.1 and AUTOSAR 4.0.3
software platform
■■ Usable for body, chassis,
powertrain, and infotainment
domains
■■ Communication stacks for LIN,
CAN, FlexRay, and Ethernet
■■ AUTOSAR operating system
supports all classes of scalability
■■ Profiling option for execution of
time-critical applications

Overview of Mentor Graphics VSTAR platform architecture and related tools.

■■ Scalable for small footprints

Advanced ECU Design with Fully Compliant
AUTOSAR 4.x Software and Tooling

Volcano VSx Tool Suite
integration:

Since its inception in 2003, AUTOSAR has established itself as the foundation
for electronic control unit (ECU) design and development. From an engineer’s
perspective, whether integrating the latest AUTOSAR release, or developing
a new ECU extract from the OEM, the AUTOSAR design process must be as
streamlined as possible – and support increased levels of functionality as
ECU complexity grows.
Mentor Graphics® Volcano™ AUTOSAR has been at the forefront of addressing
these challenges. Volcano VSTAR™ software platform is Mentor’s embedded
implementation of the AUTOSAR standard and a complete offering to meet
all ECU platform needs. Unique to Mentor’s AUTOSAR solution is tool support
for the entire AUTOSAR development cycle. Volcano AUTOSAR tools provide
a round trip solution; from ECU extract updates and stack upgrades, to
automatically configuring a stack.
Mentor Graphics Volcano VSB™ is the configuration front-end to mentor’s
VSTAR platform. Volcano VSB is the natural configuration companion that
contains import functions for standard automotive exchange formats. This
critical function is coupled with VSB ECU Configuration Generator, which
is based on supplied data that automatically configures applicable parts
of the ECU, and provides design support for software components (SWCs).
As the ECU software is generated, the correctness of the configuration is
continuously verified by a built-in consistency checker. With support for
SWC authoring and configuration, and the round-trip capability to seamlessly
update an ECU configuration, engineers are able to achieve continuous
integration and release with VSB tools.
Integration and Configuration
Mentor Graphics provides integration with customer-specified combinations
of microcontrollers (MCUs), peripherals, microcontroller abstraction layers
(MCALs), basic software (BSW) modules, OEM-specific compatibility modules,
compilers, and debuggers of choice.

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Mentor Graphics offers a complete
and integrated tool suite for topdown vehicle system and ECU design.
VSTAR is part of the comprehensive
Mentor Graphics Volcano AUTOSAR
toolchain, which includes:
■■ Volcano Vehicle System
Architect™ (VSA) - an architecture
design tool
■■ Volcano VSA COM Designer™ - a
network design tool for AUTOSARbased ECUs
■■ Volcano Vehicle System Builder™
(VSB) - the ECU configuration tool
■■ Volcano Vehicle Systems
Integrator™ (VSI) - a simulation
tool