Complexity management for vehicle electrical/electronic architecture design
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying a set of vehicle variance designs (VVDs) for a vehicle platform based on vehicle base configurations for the vehicle platform and features available for each vehicle base configuration;
determining on a computer a first set of harness builds of a harness family necessary to support the set of VVDs;
determining on the computer a first set of optional features to be implemented as give-away features in harness builds of the set of VVDsdetermining on the computer a second set of harness builds necessary to support the set of VVDs based on the first set of optional features implemented as give-away features; and
saving the determined first set of harness builds and the second set of harness builds to one or more memory storage devices.
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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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30 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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identifying a set of vehicle variance designs (VVDs) for a vehicle platform based on vehicle base configurations for the vehicle platform and features available for each vehicle base configuration; determining on a computer a first set of harness builds of a harness family necessary to support the set of VVDs; determining on the computer a first set of optional features to be implemented as give-away features in harness builds of the set of VVDs determining on the computer a second set of harness builds necessary to support the set of VVDs based on the first set of optional features implemented as give-away features; and saving the determined first set of harness builds and the second set of harness builds to one or more memory storage devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a first set of harness builds of a harness family necessary to support a set of vehicle variance designs (VVDs) of a vehicle platform; displaying, via the GUI, a list of optional features selectable as give-away features in harness builds of the VVDs; receiving, via the GUI, user input indicating selection of a first set of optional features to be implemented as give-away features; and displaying, via the GUI, a second set of harness builds necessary to support the set of VVDs based on the first set of optional features implemented as give-away features. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. 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 including performance parameters for aspects of the E/E architecture; 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 display, via the GUI, a first set of harness builds of a harness family necessary to support a set of vehicle variance designs (VVDs) of a vehicle platform; instructions to manipulate the one or more processor to display, via the GUI, a list of optional features selectable as give-away features in harness builds of the VVDs; instructions to manipulate the one or more processors to receive, via the GUI, user input indicating selection of a first set of optional features to be implemented as give-away features; and instructions to manipulate the one or more processors to display, via the GUI, a second set of harness builds necessary to support the set of VVDs based on the first set of optional features implemented as give-away features. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. One or more computer-readable storage devices comprising:
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computer executable instructions for causing a computer to perform a set of operations; and wherein the set of operations include; identifying a set of vehicle variance designs (VVDs) for a vehicle platform based on vehicle base configurations for the vehicle platform and features available for each vehicle base configuration; determining on a computer a first set of harness builds of a harness family necessary to support the set of VVDs; determining on the computer a first set of optional features to be implemented as give-away features in harness builds of the set of VVDs; determining on the computer a second set of harness builds necessary to support the set of VVDs based on the first set of optional features implemented as give-away features; and saving the determined first set of harness builds and the second set of harness builds to one or more memory storage devices. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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