SHEET 01MODELING · ISO/SAE 21434 §9 · REV B-2.4

Your E/E architecture
is the database.

This page is wired like your harness: one bus, four stations. Follow the line — vehicle, item, system, software — and watch what each station emits into the graph.

Load your architecture EA XMI · System Composer · CycloneDX
ThreatZ — graph console
import ev-gen4.xmi  ✓ 47 ECUs · 9 buses
define-item --boundary telematics  ✓ project created
diff baseline/B-2.4  Δ 2 interfaces · 14 TARA lines re-flagged
STATION 1 · VEHICLE

47 ECUs. 9 buses. Drawn once.

Import EA XMI or System Composer, or draw on the 2D canvas. This is the program-level source — every project below taps this line.

EMITS → vehicle architecture
EMITS → boundaries & domains
GATE → freeze / release baselines
VEHICLE MODELING · EV PLATFORM GEN-4 ITEM BOUNDARY → PROJECT SCOPE
CAN-FD ETHERNET ITEM BOUNDARY · TELEMATICS
BCM BODY CONTROL
ADAS DC DOMAIN CONTROLLER
Central Gateway GATEWAY ECU
Powertrain ECU DRIVE CONTROL
TCU TELEMATICS
IVI INFOTAINMENT
CREATE PROJECT FROM ITEM
SYSTEM MODELING · TCU PROJECT
TCU COMPONENT · 4 PORTS
IVI COMPONENT · 3 PORTS
Cellular Uplink INTERFACE · EXTERNAL
CAN-FD Port INTERFACE · GATEWAY
drag boundary ← INPUT
§9.3 item definition ← OUTPUT
scope, generated not written ← WORK PRODUCT
STATION 2 · ITEM

A selection, not a Word document.

Drag a boundary on the canvas. ThreatZ instantiates the project with exactly those ECUs, buses and interfaces as analysis scope.

STATION 3 · SYSTEM

Ports, interfaces, data flows. Typed.

Each project details its slice: components, ports, signals per bus with security grading. TARA scenarios attach to these nodes — architecture edits re-flag them, never orphan them.

EMITS → interfaces & data flows
EMITS → network comm matrix
FEEDS → threat modeling · attack trees
CycloneDX / SPDX per unit ← INPUT
CVE → ECU → vehicle route ← QUERY
17 components flagged today ← LIVE
STATION 4 · SOFTWARE

SBOMs that know which vehicle they're in.

Software Composition joins architecture × SBOM per unit. A CVE lands on a real node — the route to affected projects and vehicles is one query, not a spreadsheet week.

TITLEE/E ARCHITECTURE — MODELING CHAIN
STANDARDISO/SAE 21434 §9
REVB-2.4 · FROZEN
FORMATSXMI · SLX · CDX