General Sales Begin for Next-Gen System and Software Design Tool "Next Design"
DENSO CREATE INC. (Headquarters: Naka-ku, Nagoya; President: Shinkyo Hayashi), which handles numerous embedded software developments for automobiles, started general sales of the design tool "Next Design" today, September 16, 2020. Simultaneously, we have started offering a 90-day free evaluation version. We will also host webinars introducing Next Design and providing demonstrations.
Next Design was created as a design tool to accelerate development cycles by driving the digital transformation of design processes with tools in development environments, addressing the reality where large-scale and complex systems and software must be developed concurrently.
Next Design enables you to build a dedicated design tool tailored to the perspectives and purposes of the development floor by defining a "meta-model" that outlines the structure and relationships of design information across processes, and "view definitions" for diagrams and documents to represent them.
This makes it possible to standardize design methods and processes unique to the development site—previously expressed in Word/Excel or UML/SysML—into tools, realizing organization-wide sharing of design data while maintaining traceability.
Furthermore, developing freely extensible extensions enables various types of automation, such as design verification and integration with other tools.
[Next Design Features]
- Customizable into a dedicated design tool for development sites without programming
- Diverse expressive capabilities, ranging from Word-like document displays to Excel-like grids and top-down diagrams
- Speedy and intuitive editing
- Equipped with traceability management functions comparable to dedicated tools, recording traceability during the design process
- Reusing designs in product line development
- Supports large-scale team development, including work scope division and structural management assuming multi-team development, as well as integration with management systems
- Users can develop custom extensions to further extend functionality for enhanced customization and efficiency
- Outputs documents in formats viewable by other tools (Word, PDF, HTML, and image formats)