Many industries are experiencing a rapid evolution as technologies continue to change in support of new trends. This evolving landscape is presenting significant challenges to developing fully certified and compliant electrical systems. These challenges are driving considerable complexity into the design process that requires engineers to spend more time and energy in the development and verification of the complete system. Smarter software is necessary to support deeper automation, collaboration, and verification to ensure the delivery of quality products can be achieved in a more rapid development cycle.
Electrical Systems Integration
Electrical Systems Integration
Many industries are experiencing a rapid evolution as technologies continue to change in support of new trends. This evolving landscape is presenting significant challenges to developing fully certified and compliant electrical systems. These challenges are driving considerable complexity into the design process that requires engineers to spend more time and energy in the development and verification of the complete system. Smarter software is necessary to support deeper automation, collaboration, and verification to ensure the delivery of quality products can be achieved in a more rapid development cycle.
Platform Generative for Automotive & Transportation
Generative Design - a breakthrough in the automation of systems integration - automatically merges generic sub-system signal connectivity with physical topology to generate fully-detailed vehicle wiring designs. This removes a huge part of the system integration task, saving time, improving quality, and leaving engineers free to innovate and investigate a wide range of physical architectures to determine the optimum layout. Using a correct-by-construction rules paradigm, Capital automatically merges signal connectivity, with configuration logic and physical topology to place devices and synthesize fully composite, or modular, whole platform wiring designs. Configurable rules control the automated placement of devices, the automated routing of signals/wires, splice locations, and other detailed wiring design decisions. Capital ability to synthesize wiring directly from logical connectivity provides key competitive advantages to users – generic connectivity can be defined once then used in other platforms, providing better standardization, improved reliability from consistent use of best-practice designs, and shorter design cycles.
Platform Interactive for Aerospace & Defense
Capital allows users to define device (equipment) locations and harness bundle layout within a platform. Devices can be placed manually or automatically using configurable rules, then wiring routed through bundle paths, again using automated rules. Constraints such as signal separation codes can be applied. Direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions allows engineers to visualize their designs, and validate results against requirements such as FAA EWIS regulations. Platform level electrical design and visualization are available, helping early-stage platform layout and allowing direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions, simplifying design change and decision-making processes. Also design tasks are simplified and automated using rules-driven device placement and wire routing providing early indication of wire-routing, bundle diameters, and harness complexity issues. Wire lengths can be back-annotated to support accurate voltage-drop, weight and other types of analysis throughout the process.
Real Time Metrics to Guide Engineering Decisions
Engineers often have multiple choices as they progress a design, whether at an early architectural optimization stage or for detailed component selection. These choices impact the ultimate cost, profitability, weight, component count, and a variety of other parameters that contribute towards making the best decisions. Capital Insight gives engineers real time visibility of the impact of their decisions, and allows systematic trade-off studies to be rapidly conducted. Cost, weight and many other metrics can be compared between designs using a variety of graphical and tabular reporting formats. Metrics are easily configured and can be customized to support business objectives and reflect corporate intellectual property.
