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Ansys SCADE

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Model based development for safety critical embedded software with certified code generation

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  • Deployment On Premises
  • Starting price Not published
  • Free trial Not offered
  • Best for Medium Business, Large Enterprise

What is Ansys SCADE?

Ansys SCADE Suite is a model based development environment for safety critical embedded software, used in aerospace, automotive, rail and industrial control. Ansys is now part of Synopsys, and the product sits in its embedded software portfolio alongside testing tooling.

Qualified code generation is the reason this product exists and the reason it commands the price it does. In certified domains, software must satisfy standards such as DO-178C in aerospace or ISO 26262 in automotive, and every stage of development has to produce evidence for a certification authority. A code generator qualified against those standards means generated code does not have to be verified as though hand written, which removes an enormous quantity of certification work.

That is the whole economic argument. The tooling is expensive and the alternative is more expensive still, because the verification effort it displaces is measured in engineer years on a large programme.

Formal verification capability lets properties be proven about a model rather than tested sample by sample, which matters where a safety case must argue about all possible inputs and not just the ones a test suite happened to try. Simulation and testing integration close the loop from model to verified implementation, and recent releases add AI assisted testing and cloud continuous integration.

Key Features of Ansys SCADE

  • Model based development for embedded software
  • Qualified code generation for certified domains
  • DO-178C aerospace certification support
  • ISO 26262 automotive safety support
  • Formal verification of model properties
  • Model simulation
  • Integration with testing tooling
  • Requirements traceability
  • AI assisted testing in recent releases
  • Cloud continuous integration support

Ansys SCADE Pricing

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No rate is published. Licensing for certified development tooling depends on domain, seat count and qualification packages, and is quoted per organisation.

Ansys SCADE Specifications

Deployment
  • On Premises
Desktop
  • Windows
  • Linux
Built for
  • Medium Business
  • Large Enterprise
Support
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Knowledge Base
Public API
Yes
Free trial
No
Free plan
No
Runs in browser
No
Customisable
No
Website
ansys.com

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Ansys SCADE FAQs

No rate is published. Ansys quotes per organisation, which is typical for certified development tooling where licensing depends on domain, seats and qualification packages.

A generator qualified against standards such as DO-178C or ISO 26262 means the code it produces does not need verifying as though hand written. That removes a very large amount of certification work, which is the product's core economic argument.

Aerospace, automotive, rail and industrial control, which is to say domains where embedded software must be certified against a safety standard before it can be deployed.

It proves properties about a model rather than testing sample inputs, which matters where a safety case must argue about all possible inputs rather than the subset a test suite happened to cover.

Ansys is now part of Synopsys, and the SCADE product line is presented within the combined portfolio spanning silicon through to systems.