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The Rational Rhapsody family from IBM Break down engineering and development silos How do systems engineers and software developers, creating embedded and real-time applications in fields such as automotive, electronics, avionic controls, next-generation wireless infrastructures, consumer electronics, medical devices and industrial automation, collaborate across multiple disciplines and meet the complex requirements to deliver safe and robust systems— especially when there is little time to produce, let alone test, the systems and software before they go into production? To overcome these challenges,...

Figure 1. The web client view of Rational Rhapsody Design Manager enables the extended team to collaborate, share, review, search and trace design and lifecycle information. Based on the IBM Jazz™ platform, IBM Rational Rhapsody Design Manager software provides additional design management capabilities to enable sharing and collaboration on designs by an extended team of stakeholders, inside and outside the organization. ●● ● Manageable. Teams can store and manage Rational Rhapsody designs and other types of architectures, designs and models in a central location. Searchable. Teams can search...

The Rational Rhapsody family from IBM Consistent. Rational Rhapsody Design Manager provides a single-source-of-truth workflow with requirements also stored on the Jazz platform to avoid synchronization issues. Transparent. Team members can obtain a real-time view to follow design management and other lifecycle activities through a web dashboard that is integrated with other Jazz-based products. Leverage model-based systems engineering to manage complexity The IBM Rational Rhapsody family of products provides systems engineers with the tools to specify a system correctly—and to communicate the...

Figure 3. Rational Rhapsody software’s advanced simulation capabilities and multicore support combine to assist in structuring multicore applications. Rational Rhapsody solutions for systems engineering are designed to be: ●● ● Consistent. Capturing designs using a SysML/UML-based environment enables systems engineers to clearly and unambiguously capture requirements and design. The check-model capability provided helps ensure that the model and its interfaces are complete and correct. Validated. Simulation capabilities in the Rational Rhapsody Developer and Rational Rhapsody Designer for Systems...

The Rational Rhapsody family from IBM Automated. Helpers provide automation for systems engineering steps to avoid manual entry and help maintain consistency of design. Customizable report-generation capabilities found in the Rational Rhapsody Tools and Utilities Add On enable generation of documentation at the push of a button. Intuitive. The Rational Rhapsody Designer for Systems Engineers and Rational Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers editions present features and guidance to help new systems engineers become productive quickly. optimized framework with MISRA C/C++ and ARINC 653 support...

Figure 4. Rational Rhapsody solutions integrate into the Eclipse environment, as provided with Rational Team Concert for example, creating a powerful platform for model and code development and debugging. Enhance quality and productivity with a world-class solution The Rational Rhapsody environment for systems engineering, embedded software and testing concentrates on product depth for a truly world-class experience—one that has been hailed by critics as a top development environment for systems engineering, embedded software and testing. By integrating and automating the systems and software...

The Rational Rhapsody family from IBM Industry- and domain-focused solutions “We needed an integrated solution to optimize our process and procedures and provide our developers with the agility they need to respond to changes. This is what IBM Rational provided, from the requirements with DOORS to the code with Rhapsody” —Project lead at international transportation company The Rational Rhapsody family of products provides solutions focused on the needs of specific industries and technologies based on industry-leading modeling languages—SysML and UML—with extensions for many industry-specific...

(Department of Defense Architecture Framework), MODAF (Ministry of Defense Architecture Framework) and UPDM standards for structuring systems design. The solutions provide Data Distribution for Real-Time Systems (DDS) for developing applications that take advantage of publish-subscribe communications of data. For industry-specific development, Rhapsody solutions are designed to be: ●● ● Consistent. Because the diagrams in a Rational Rhapsody model are interrelated, changes to an element in one diagram are automatically propagated throughout the model, enhancing data consistency across systems....

10 The Rational Rhapsody family from IBM Model-based testing to automate quality Rational Rhapsody model-based testing (MBT) is a critical paradigm that helps bring the benefits of MDD to the testing process. MBT enables engineers to iteratively simulate a design to locate errors early in the process, automate tedious testing, incorporate requirements-based testing to validate the design against requirements and use the Rational Rhapsody Automatic Test Generation Add On capabilities to automatically create coverage tests from the design. The graphical panel feature provided with Rational Rhapsody...

“Model-driven development with UML and SysML has become essential for improving productivity and quality of embedded software development. IBM Rational Rhapsody provides features that enable embedded developers to validate their designs early and improve productivity. [Rational] Rhapsody’s unique support for both codecentric and model-centric workflows should help traditional coders more easily adopt model-driven development, and its support for strategic software asset reuse will enable organizations to more effectively leverage their intellectual property.” —Dr. Jerry Krasner, Embedded Market...