E/E Systems Development for Automotive

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Automotive leaders are developing vehicles with increasingly innovative capabilities that challenge the architecture and overall system design of a vehicle in unprecedented ways. As the requirements for E/E systems increase, the industry is battling against ever-increasing costs and system complexity alongside reduced time to market. Our solution addresses these challenges with a comprehensive suite of tools delivering unparalleled levels of automation, data coherency, and integrations to enable true multi-domain product development.

Automotive leaders are developing vehicles with increasingly innovative capabilities that challenge the architecture and overall system design of a vehicle in unprecedented ways. As the requirements for E/E systems increase, the industry is battling against ever-increasing costs and system complexity alongside reduced time to market. Our solution addresses these challenges with a comprehensive suite of tools delivering unparalleled levels of automation, data coherency, and integrations to enable true multi-domain product development.

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Manage automotive design complexity with E/E systems development

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Discover how to manage electrical and electronic system complexity, how the benefits of integration between electrical and mechanical systems reduce your design efforts and rework, and how an automated rules/constraints and verification process ensure reliable data and minimize risks.

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Today's E/E systems are characterized by a huge growth in complexity, driven by increasing feature content and new technologies, such as electric and autonomous vehicles. To effectively manage these inter-connected challenges our E/E systems development solution encompasses E/E systems architecture, electrical systems, communication networks, and embedded software flows. It has comprehensive integrations with Siemens' model-based systems engineering, MCAD, PLM, simulation, and manufacturing tools to enable a comprehensive digital twin of the whole product.

Our solution delivers a comprehensive digital twin for E/E systems development and supports multiple development approach including industry leading generative design for electrical systems.

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Solution capabilities

E/E Data Management & Integrations

Manage data, control processes, and use integrations to provide a comprehensive development flow. Manage changes and configurations, both between domains within the product development process and with all major MCAD and PLM tools.

E/E Systems Definition & Optimization

Optimize electrical and electronic (E/E) architectures against targets such as cost, weight, and bandwidth. Define and consolidate functions. Create and analyze electrical, electronic, embedded software, and network specifications.

Electrical Document Publication & Use

Re-use design data to create technical publications, document design changes, and enable electrical diagnostics and troubleshooting. Automate publication tasks such as wiring diagram repartitioning and graphics styling with multi-language support.

Electrical Systems Engineering

Design and simulate electrical distribution systems with an interactive logical system and wiring design, as well as automated generative engineering. Integrate and verify electrical system implementations. Optimize electrical complexity, use live metrics, and advanced design rule checks to analyze electrical systems.

Embedded Software Design

Effectively design, test, and deploy onboard software by following a model-based approach in a common environment for system and software engineers. Develop accurate, verified software architectures. Design, simulate, implement, and verify software components. Create "software contracts" to improve downstream software quality.

Embedded Software Implementation

Develop embedded software for automotive electronic control units (ECUs) that satisfy functional safety and cybersecurity requirements. Integrate AUTOSAR basic and application software. Simulate and verify embedded software implementations. Configure AUTOSAR embedded software and enable ECU flashing.

Harness Engineering & Manufacturing

Design, engineer, and verify electrical harnesses for manufacture. Optimize harness costing, manufacturing, and assembly processes to boost performance, throughput and profitability. Develop accurate and optimized harness manufacturing documentation to increase efficiency.

Network Design

Design "right-sized" communication networks with detailed timing analysis. Optimize and verify network designs to ensure quality and accelerate development. Deliver accurate communication network implementation.