SaberES Designer Software

 

 

Vehicle electrical systems distribute power and data amongst electrical subsystems and components enabling safe, efficient, and cost-effective vehicle operation. With its myriad of complexities and interdependencies on all connected sub-systems, the electrical system design process poses significant technical and logistical challenges to make it function reliably. SaberES Designer™ enables design teams to address these challenges by providing an integrated process for electrical system design from concept to manufacturing. SaberES Designer minimizes data entry, manages complex, system-wide design variants, enables concurrent engineering, maintains data integrity, and allows efficient exchange with 3D CAD systems.

 

1. SaberES Designer is the Only Completely Unified Tool for Electric System Design & Verification

• Intuitive tool for developing functional and physical electrical system designs
• Integrated data flow for electrical system design from concept to manufacturing
• Single database ensures correct by construction and eliminates data translation errors
• Robust sheet check-in/check-out for efficient concurrent engineering
• Built-in and extensible design verification

 

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2. Functional & Physical Electrical System Design

• Create component symbols and save to Parts Library for reuse
• Design functional subsystems by connecting symbols with logical signals
• Place functional subsystems from the Subsystem Library to create whole vehicle electrical system designs
• Filter/exclude variant dependent functionality from sub-systems
• Generate wiring designs from functional system designs
• Assign physical attributes from corporate database including: wires, shells, inline connectors, splices, etc.
• Use Connector Manager to quickly ensure correct inline cavity occupation
• Use Automatic Parts Selector to determine required passive components for each connector shell and cavity
• Check basic design rules for disconnected wires or missing properties for shells, splices, wires, etc.

 

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3. Variant Handling and Filtering

• Generate 150% wiring designs for electrical systems with different variations
• Assign feature options to components and wires in wiring designs
• Use Assembly Library to graphically select feature options and generate variant-dependent buildable harnesses

 

4. Harness Design

• Easily export wiring design data to 3D MCAD tools
• Conversely, import placement and routing data from 3D MCAD tools
• Use SaberES Designer Table Manager to quickly generate ASCII files for custom export, like bill of material tables

 

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5. Generated Drawings

• Generate wire harnesses from connectivity, wiring design, and variant information
• Set connector symbol position and define desired harness segment routings
• Reuse geometrical information, such as length, from the 3D MCAD tools
• Project 3D information from 3D MCAD tools in 2D drawing
• Select viewing perspective, rotation, and scale of the projection

 

6. Concurrent Engineering

• Optimize engineering investments by spreading design tasks across different sites
• Check-in/check-out design sheets to eliminate data integrity issues.

 

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7. Correct by Design

• Avoid conflicts and eliminate synchronization and merging tasks by working from a single design database
• Auto generate bill of materials from same database used for electrical system design and verification

 

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8. Verification of Electrical Systems

Voltage Drop and Over-current

• Implement reusable verification simulations using SaberES Designer Experiment Analyzer
• Use built-in DC simulation capabilities to verify voltage drop and overcurrent to determine fuse sizes, cross-sectional areas of all wires, existence of sneak paths, etc.
• Back-annotate simulation data and probe critical nodes to quickly identify problem areas

 

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Advanced Transient and Robust Design

 

 

• Add optional Saber Simulator for transient verification of high-speed systems including vehicle networks.
• Add optional Saber Inspecs to optimize the design for component variations and shifts in operating conditions

Functional Safety

• Add optional Saber Functional Safety to verify functional safety of electrical systems
• Quickly select and configure hardware faults directly from the SaberES Designer wiring design
• Export functional safety simulation results From SaberES Designer Experiment Analyzer to document fault coverage and support functional safety flows.