IBM Rhapsody

IBM Engineering Rhapsody provides a robust graphical modeling environment for designing, simulating, and validating intricate systems, encompassing both hardware and software components and their interactions. It facilitates continuous validation through rapid simulation and prototyping, enabling the early detection and correction of errors when they are most cost-effective to fix. The tool fosters cross-team collaboration, allowing for the sharing, collaboration, and review of engineering lifecycle artifacts across different teams and even with external stakeholders via a web client. Its intuitive interface is designed for ease of use, allowing users to tailor the tool to their specific needs and improve model visualization. Furthermore, Engineering Rhapsody offers enhanced compliance support for industry standards such as ISO 26262, ensuring that systems meet critical safety and regulatory requirements.

Key features include:

• Analyze and elaborate project requirements: Automatically generates system specifications, interface design documents, and test cases using SysML, UML, UAF, and AUTOSAR.
• Accelerate implementation: Provides an integrated environment for graphically architecting C++, C, or Java applications using UML.
• Automate review cycle: Facilitates automated design reviews and comprehensive documentation generation for specifications, communication, compliance, and reporting.
• Prototype and validate early: Enables prototyping, simulation, and execution of designs for early validation of requirements, architecture, and behavior.
• Engineer in real-time: Offers an embedded, real-time agile engineering environment with application generation for C++, C, Java, and Ada, supporting safety-critical software lifecycles.
• Integrate AUTOSAR: Simplifies automotive software development with seamless integration of the AUTOSAR standard.

Available product versions include Rhapsody Developer, IBM Engineering Rhapsody Model Manager, Rhapsody Architect for Software, Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers, Rhapsody Designer, and Rhapsody Systems Engineering.