GUI-FACILITATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR VEHICLE ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- providing a database comprising information representative of an electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle, the information including information regarding relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture of the vehicle;
determining an impact status of a second aspect of a second component of the E/E architecture resulting from a modification to a first aspect of a first component based on the relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture as represented in the database; and
displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a visual representation of the impact status of the second aspect of the second component of the E/E architecture.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are computer aided design (CAD) techniques to implement a unified data schema and graphical user interface (GUI) to link ECU/devices, in-vehicle communications, and vehicle harness information together with respect to architectural relation, performance relation, and cost relation, and to facilitate a designer'"'"'s understanding and manipulation of this information. The domain-specific information from each domain is converted to objects in this unified data schema and stored in a unified database that is accessible to every domain, so that the impact of the current state in the device domain can be accessed and analyzed by a designer from any domain. This approach enables design data sharing and real-time collaboration between different electrical/electronic (E/E) design domains, thereby facilitating the realization of design data collaboration, design change management, and product lifetime management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) implementation.
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1. A method comprising:
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providing a database comprising information representative of an electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle, the information including information regarding relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture of the vehicle; determining an impact status of a second aspect of a second component of the E/E architecture resulting from a modification to a first aspect of a first component based on the relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture as represented in the database; and displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a visual representation of the impact status of the second aspect of the second component of the E/E architecture. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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determining a electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle, E/E architecture including relationships and connections between a plurality of components of the E/E architecture; determining an impact status to each component of the plurality of components resulting from modifying one or more aspects of the E/E architecture; displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a hierarchical list of the plurality of components and aspects of each component; and displaying, via the GUI, a visual indicator in association with each item listed in the hierarchical list, the visual indicator identifying an impact status to the associated item resulting from modifying the one or more aspects of the E/E architecture. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A system comprising:
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one or more processors; a storage device configured to store a database comprising information representative of an electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle, the information including information regarding relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture of the vehicle; and a computer readable memory configured to store executable instructions, the executable instructions comprising; instructions to manipulate the one or more processors to provide a graphical user interface (GUI); instructions to manipulate the one or more processors to determine an impact status of a second aspect of a second component of the E/E architecture resulting from a modification to a first aspect of a first component of the E/E architecture based on the relationships and connections between components of the E/E architecture as represented in the database; and instructions to manipulate the one or more processors to display, via the GUI, a visual representation of the impact status of the second aspect of the second component of the E/E architecture. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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