As vehicle times lines are shrinking from 5 years to now three years and consumers are looking at their vehicle like a mobile device, there is an even stronger need to use a tools which can help achieve this goals.
There are many tools out there for e.g. CodeBeamer, Polarion and IBM Jazz. Most interesting is Vector’s PREEVision.
PREEVision is based on eclipse which is familiar and allows to zoom in or out from Vehicle function level to AUTOSAR ports all integrated into one single tool with concurrent usage of the artifacts.
Other advantages are:
1, Supports Domain based vehicle development
2, Can go all the way from connectors to wiring harness layout
3, Supports AUTOSAR both Classic, Adaptive and Android Automotive OS
4, Both signal based ECUs and Service Oriented ECUs are supported.
5, It has a library of components which can be dragged and dropped to create vehicle architecture.
6, The most important of all , it has an integrated data base from which the complete vehicle is rendered as a graphic
The only flip side is we have vendor lock-in , well most OEMs, T-1 are already using Vector tools like CANOe, CANDela so this is an additional tool with same vendor.
Last but not least the least Vector support is above average to great.
Enjoy building your next vehicle.
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