PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems and
software engineering teams can drive new levels of collaboration
through innovative information exchange with each other and with
third-party data repositories thanks to improvements in the latest
release of ANSYS® SCADE System.
Efficiently designing complex systems and embedded software
applications – which can include sensors, actuators and controllers
that run complicated software applications – is a challenge for
many organizations due to a lack of efficient collaboration among
engineering teams and databases. The newly released SCADE System
15.2 from ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) solves these challenges by providing
new, unique capabilities and enhancements that offer the most
advanced approach to guide complex systems engineering designs.
Release 15.2 extends the SCADE System solution through unlimited
component reuse as well as comprehensive data management for
exchanging data with third-party databases and propagating this
data within the systems architecture design. The solution also
features a new SCADE System configurator tool to customize the
solutions for specific domains, in addition to such standard
domains as IMA and AUTOSAR.
"Lack of internal collaboration has been a major impediment in
product development," said Eric Bantegnie, ANSYS vice president.
"This latest release of SCADE System helps to remove this barrier
by enabling teams to share data effortlessly – furthering our
vision for Simulation Driven Product Development™."
Highlights of the release include:
- Hierarchy management: Systems engineers need to reuse
components, which may contain sub-components, as well as specify
different information for individual instances of the same
component. This requires consistently managed replicas of the
components' internal definition. Traditional tools do not provide
that capability and instead require engineers to manually copy and
paste definitions and resolve inconsistencies when changes are
made. SCADE now enables systems engineers to manage the entire
hierarchy of instances in a user-friendly environment,
automatically preserving the consistency of the replicated data. As
a result, engineers save considerable time and reduce the risk of
introducing errors into the models.
- Data sharing and reuse: Systems engineers need to manage
and produce Interface Control Documents (ICDs), which are detailed
specifications of all of the interfaces between subsystems and the
system with external forces. Managing this large set of information
is a complicated task, as the data may have been defined prior to
the design of the system architecture itself. With SCADE System
15.2, systems engineers can save time by importing and exporting
data dictionaries, allocating data to the architecture and
propagating them along the communication paths. Model-based ICDs
can be defined at all levels within the system architecture,
including functions, architecture item and equipment. The ICDs are
supported by customizable tables in each block. They include the
list of data produced and consumed, along with data properties,
source and target of the data and any information extracted from
the model by customizable scripts.
- Automated configuration: SCADE System includes new
configuration technology, enabling tools and methods teams to
easily customize the solution for customer-specific domains, as
well as standard domains such as IMA and AUTOSAR. The configuration
contains the definition of such domain-specific objects as
function, equipment and bus. It also includes domain-specific
object properties and constraints among objects. Configuration
deployment is fully automated and allows end users to work with a
domain-specific modeler with dedicated user interface palettes and
property pages. New configuration adoption is increased because
this environment is familiar to the end users.
SCADE System provides a comprehensive environment and
user-friendly interface that simplifies systems engineering tasks
that are otherwise complex to handle: consistent replication of
reused components in a system architecture, propagation within the
architecture of data imported from pre-existing databases and
generation of up-to-date and consistent ICDs. With the configurator
module, end user tasks are made even easier with interfaces that
exactly match the user's domain.
Customers can visit MySCADESupport.com to download the latest
version of SCADE System.
About ANSYS, Inc.
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customers' most complex design challenges through fast, accurate
and reliable engineering simulation. Our technology enables
organizations ― no matter their industry ― to predict with
confidence that their products will thrive in the real world.
Customers trust our software to help ensure product integrity and
drive business success through innovation. Founded in 1970, ANSYS
employs nearly 2,700 professionals, many of them expert in
engineering fields such as finite element analysis, computational
fluid dynamics, electronics and electromagnetics, and design
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