Telelogic unveils "Rhapsody For Automotive"

BANGALORE, INDIA: Provider of software solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM), Telelogic has announced “Rhapsody For Automotive”.

The first UML and SysML-based solution is designed and customized to address the needs of automotive systems engineers and software developers of automotive electronics.

This flexible solution easily adapts to the fast changes and diverse needs of engineers designing Telematics, Infotainment, Powertrain, Chasis, Comfort and Body Electronic Control Units (ECUs).

Based on Telelogic’s leading Model Driven Development (MDD) environment, Rhapsody For Automotive offers automotive engineers advanced architectural design capabilities through UML and SysML to better address the increasing complexity of today’s automotive electronic systems and software.

With Rhapsody For Automotive, organizations developing systems and software for the automotive industry can enjoy the benefits of MDD with a solution that supports automotive industry standards, such as AUTOSAR, MISRA C and OSEK. In addition, Rhapsody For Automotive supports the various standard automotive communication buses while allowing engineers to continue to leverage the benefits found in their existing algorithmic modeling tools, such as The MathWorks Simulink and Telelogic Statemate.

“Today’s cars and trucks, which are becoming more like ‘local area networks on wheels,’ are complex systems comprised of intricate and innovative software architectures,” said Sidharth Malik, managing director-India at Telelogic. 

He added, “To address the automotive industry’s unique requirements, it is crucial for developers and engineers to have access to capabilities that help them align design goals with specified requirements in a timely and efficient manner. Rhapsody For Automotive has been specifically designed to meet the needs of automotive software developers and engineers, enabling them to take a Model Driven Development approach that has been demonstrated to reduce engineering costs and time-to-market.”

Customized to address the automotive industry’s specific design and implementation challenges, Rhapsody For Automotive builds upon Telelogic’s history of supporting the automotive development lifecycle by offering a solution that supports leading industry standards, reduces development complexity and development time.