Providing 'Capital (Mentor® Capital®)' to 'Lear Corporation'
Performing connectivity capture, wiring synthesis, design optimization and verification, and electrical system design simulation

Mentor Graphics Korea (CEO Yang Young-in) announced that it has supplied its electrical system and wire harness domain design verification solution, 'Mentor® Capital®', to LVPG (Lear Virtual Proving Grounds), an electrical design system from Lear Corporation, a global leader in the field of automotive electronic system development.

Lear Corporation's LVPG is a solution developed for automotive OEM customers to optimize and verify electrical system and wire harness designs. By responding quickly and powerfully to customer needs, LVPG supports the development of products with differentiated competitiveness in the market.

Lear's LVPG consists of two layers, each implementing electrical and mechanical design. Lear Corporation utilizes Mentor's Capital tools within the electrical layer, which include tools for connectivity capture, platform-level wiring synthesis, design optimization and verification, and electrical system design simulation. Since data is constantly exchanged with the machine layer, synchronization errors disappear.


Among the Mentor Graphics Capital tools used by Lear are connectivity capture, platform-level wiring synthesis, design optimization and verification, and electrical simulation.

Bill Presley, Vice President of Electrical Engineering at Lear Corporation, said, “Automotive engineering is rapidly moving toward full virtual prototyping. This trend is becoming inevitable as design complexity increases and development times shorten.”

In addition, “From the time we were conceptualizing LVPG, we knew that applying Mentor Graphics’ Capital would enable electrical wiring designs that meet our requirements.” “The Capital Suite not only provides flow coverage and automation capabilities but also possesses a data-driven philosophy and integration capabilities, aligning with our design philosophy of rapidly delivering robust designs to our automotive OEM clients,” he emphasized. “Another significant advantage is the ability to seamlessly implement the process from design to manufacturing by using Mentor Graphics’ Capital Harness to send design data directly to our production systems worldwide.”

Martin O'Brien, General Manager of Mentor Automotive, stated, “LVPG is one of the most sophisticated software applications I have ever seen utilizing Capital products,” and added, “It is a prime example of a client delivering exceptional service to the market by embedding powerful commercial software tools within a proprietary environment. We look forward to the continued development of LVPG and our ongoing collaboration with Lear Corporation.”