Software requirements for Rhapsody
Install the required software and any add-on products before you install IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody. These requirements apply to both the Windows operating systems.
For the most current details about hardware and software requirements, see the System Requirements for Rhapsody page.
The following table lists software requirements for the Rhapsody editions. For a list of the possible add-on products and whether they require any additional licenses, see the list in step 11 in the topic on installing Rhapsody on a Windows system.
| Product | Requirements | |
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| Architect for Systems Engineers | An integrated, systems engineering environment for analyzing project requirements. It uses Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) to enable rapid requirements analysis and visual, model-based design. Rhapsody – Architect for Systems Engineers helps your systems engineering teams design complex functionality in less time. | |
| Architect for software | A model-driven development environment for embedded software design that helps improve productivity, reuse and consistency with software visualization. It supports industry standards such as UML, SysML, AUTOSAR and UPDM and enables you to visually capture applications to automate manual coding tasks and communicate designs. The visual programming environment integrates design and development functions, and facilitates team collaboration for better and faster results. You can improve development productivity, lower costs through asset reuse and achieve higher levels of consistency in designs. | |
| Rhapsody Developer for C,
Rhapsody Developer for C++ |
An embedded and real-time agile software engineering environment with full
application generation for C++ and C. In order to generate code from Rhapsody models, you must add a compiler before you install Rhapsody, and you must identify the compiler when you install Rhapsody. Among the compilers
that can be used to build code for C and C++ Rhapsody models are:
See the System requirements for Rhapsody page for additional support requirements for Rhapsody for a list of supported compilers. |
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| Rhapsody Developer for Java | This product requires a Java environment. You can use a Java Runtime
Environment (a JRE is installed with the product), or a Java Software Development Kit (SDK). See the System requirements for Rhapsody page for a list of the supported versions of Java. |
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| Rhapsody Developer for Ada | Before you install this product, you must have the following software on your system:
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Feature comparison of the Rhapsody products
| Features | Architect for Systems Engineers | Architect for Software | Developer (C++, C, Java and Ada (including MISRA-C and MISRA-C++).) |
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| Includes UML/SysML modeling, a configuration management interface and Eclipse platform integration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provides parametric constraint evaluation, doc generation and customizable doc generation w/ PUB | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Includes AUTOSAR System Authoring; provides a systems engineering-focused user interface | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Uses DDS modeling, DOORS Family integration, API for customization, DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Licensing options available for perpetual and term, floating and individual user | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provides simulation and model execution; graphical panels for prototyping or mock ups | - | Yes | Yes |
| Includes reverse engineering code | - | Yes | Yes |
| Provides simulation and model execution; graphical panels for prototyping or mock ups | - | - | Yes |
| Includes full application code generation (including statecharts) and integration with embedded IDE | - | - | Yes |
| Uses generation build artifacts, real time execution framework, Ada development and Linux support | - | - | Yes |