Ansys SCADE Architect

System & Software Architecture Design

Ansys SCADE Architect offers a graphical, model-based system and software architecture design environment for highly dependable embedded products.

Overview

EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN Cutting-Edge Model-Based Systems Engineering

Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers. It provides full support of industrial systems engineering processes, such as ARP 4754A, ISO 26262 and EN 50126. SCADE Architect features functional and architectural system modeling and verification in a SysML-based environment.

Features

Quick Specs

Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers; the underlying SysML™ technology is hidden, making modeling more user-friendly and intuitive.

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Analysis of System Use Cases

Data Management

System Constraints Representation

Support of Collaborative Work

Requirements Traceability

Model Consistency Checking

Generate Consistent & Comprehensive Interface Control Documents (ICDs)

Synchronization with Software

System Design Environment Configuration

Capabilities

A Smooth, User-friendly Design Environment for High Dependability Systems

Ansys SCADE Architect software gives you everything you need to design and verify systems and even synchronize your system with software design to eliminate inefficiencies and effort redundancies. Analyze system requirements, define system architectures and compare differences between system versions.

Capabilities

Key Features

Enjoy an effective functional and architectural system modeling and verification tool

System & Software architecture design

SCADE Architect supports functional and architecture decomposition via block diagrams in a more user-friendly and intuitive way than standard SysML tools or plain databases

SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers; the underlying SysML™ technology is hidden, features of reusable/unique blocks for component-based modeling, import/export of data dictionaries and data propagation across block hierarchy. Management of read-only model libraries and complete model API in Python, OCL, TCL or Java technologies allows scalability and customization. Import SysML models from IBM Rhapsody, NoMagic MagicDraw and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect models are also supported.

System & Software architecture design verification

SCADE Architect enables systems design verification with tools for model consistency checking and model diff/merge.

Our software’s design verification abilities allow you to automatically verify model rules for both entire models and their constituent parts. You can even set predefined rules for common usage patterns to quickly fix violations. Easily analyze and compare variations between model versions and filter to display model differences. Then see all your removals, insertions and other changes in tree view to easily understand the differences between model objects. Stay up to date with every change thanks to SCADE Architect’s comprehensive report on merge actions and differences before and after each merge session.

ICD Generation and Synchronization with Software Design

SCADE Architect facilitates creation of interface control documents and refinement of software components in the Ansys SCADE Suite model-based environment.

SCADE Architect automates the production of interface control documents. It produces tables from data representing interfaces of blocks. Data can be both imported and exported from both Excel and CSV formatted tables as well as customized to represent messages with dedicated communication protocol properties. This allows the tables to represent comprehensive ICDs.

SCADE Architect allows makes it possible to refine software components through bi-directional synchronization and parallel evolution of system design and software components. SCADE Architect’s advanced synchronization eliminates the duplication of effort create by synchronizing interfaces defined at the system level and refined at the software level.

Systems requirements analysis

The SysML-based system design tool supports operational requirements analysis, functional decomposition, architecture decomposition and allocation of functions to components.

SCADE Architect is a complete system requirements analysis solution allowing for the analysis of system use cases, system scenarios, system states and system activity. For each analysis, SCADE Architect employs easy to use diagrams and offers the ability to refine use cases, states, and actions referenced in the diagrams. Its SysML-based system design tool hides the UML technology for a simple, intuitive interface that supports functional and architectural decomposition. SCADE Architect can support representations of system states and actions control flow at any decomposition level within the State Machine Diagrams and Activity Diagrams. Architecture models can be imported in medini analyze for security and safety analysis, and traceability to requirements ensured by SCADE ALM Gateway.

System design environment configuration

The SCADE Architect Editor can be configured to meet specific domain needs, such as industry standards like IMA, FACE and AUTOSAR, or company or project standards.

Using the SCADE Architect Configurator you can configure the Architect Advanced Editor to meet specific needs determined by your project or user group. Use the SCADE Architect Configurator to define domain-specific objects, properties and constraints in a simplified diagram and customize your modeler with domain-specific UI palettes, property pages, menus and tables. You can even apply custom rules on meta models to ensure that your models meet modeling constraints.

Solutions for FACE, AADL, avionics interfaces

Ansys SCADE Avionics package extends SCADE Architect with solutions tailored for the design of avionics systems. It includes solutions for the FACE Technical Standard, AADL and avionics interfaces.

SCADE Architect can be expanded with the addition of the Ansys SCADE Avionics Package, a dedicated, comprehensive solution for designing embedded avionics systems that meet important industry standards. The Avionics Package includes support for ARINC 429, ARINC 664-P7/AFDX or CAN communication protocols, Integrated Modular Avionics architecture, and ARINC 653 specific properties. It even generates ARINC 653 configuration files automatically. The Avionics Package also enables SCADE Architect to provide solutions for the AADL and FACE standards, making SCADE Architect the perfect platform for embedded system design for avionics.