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Released Next Design V3, a system and software design tool with enhanced Git integration and support for timing charts and state transition tables.

Denso Create Corporation (Head Office: Naka-ku, Nagoya, Japan; President: Hideaki Miyagawa), a leading developer of embedded software for the automotive industry, will begin offering Next Design V3, the latest version of its next-generation system software design tool, on February 22, 2023. At the same time, the company will also begin offering a free evaluation version that allows users to experience the new features firsthand.

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Next Design can be made into a dedicated design tool by matching the "meta-model," which defines the structure and relationship of design information for each process, and the "view definition," which is a diagram/document representation for expressing the meta-model, to the viewpoints and applications of the development site. Since its launch in 2020, it has been used not only in the automotive industry, but also in the electrical equipment and other industries. Since its launch in 2020, it has been widely used not only in the automotive industry, but also in various industries such as electrical equipment.

The latest version, Next Design V3, is closely integrated with Git, a version control tool, so that design changes made by multiple designers can be easily checked and merged on the tool, enabling a distributed development style similar to source code even though it is a design tool. The Git operation can also be performed intuitively with Next Design's UI. In addition, Next Design is equipped with many new features in response to requests from the development field, such as support for timing charts and state transition tables, which are frequently used in embedded software development. The new Next Design can be found at the following website.

Next Design product website: https: //www.nextdesign.app/

WHAT'S NEW IN THE LATEST VERSION V3

  • Complete Git operations such as commits and pushes on Next Design
  • Resolve conflicts with 3-way merge while viewing them on the UI
  • Supports timing charts and state transition tables that are frequently used in embedded software development
  • Improved traceability visibility with filter functionality
  • Realization of Excel-like operability, such as auto-filling in the tree grid and advanced filters
  • Numerous other improvements

For more information on the new features, see the following page
h ttps:// www.nextdesign.app/feature/v30/

Next Design Overview

Price (annual fee)

  • User license 60,000 yen (66,000 yen including tax)
  • Floating license 240,000 yen (264,000 yen including tax) and up

Requirements

  • OS Windows 10, Windows 11