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News Release from: Artisan Software Tools | Subject: Real-time Studio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2004
UML modelling tool sets the standard for
ZF
One of the automotive industry's leading suppliers of driveline and chassis systems has chosen Real-time Studio as its modelling tool for software development.
Real-time Studio has been chosen by ZF Friedrichshafen, one of the automotive industry's leading suppliers of driveline and chassis systems, as its modelling tool for software development Automobiles of today are tremendously more complex than those designed just a few years ago
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Electronics are often replacing mechanical and hydraulic components to maximise driver comfort, safety, reliability, and fuel efficiency.
This leads to the need for software to be far more involved and complex than previously, and, to meet the rigorous time schedules of automakers, it has to be designed in less time than ever before.
The potential of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) for supporting development of progressively more powerful systems in increasingly shorter timeframes was proven by ZF as long ago as 1999.
ZF introduced UML step-by-step, initially for the development of gear controls and gradually applied it to the development of virtually their entire product spectrum.
In this context, UML is used as the common language for nearly all ZF project members involved in the software development process.
This is why ease of use was one of the most vital selection criteria in their modelling tool.
Support for re-use of legacy intellectual property and code from existing models was another requirement, as was flexible code generation.
ZF also sees a high potential for increases in efficiency from Real-time Studio's Pattern Wizard, a product component that allows them to define and use solution patterns for development tasks that arise repeatedly.
Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of Artisan commented: "ZF was attracted to the flexibility and customisability of our code generator, which is widely considered to be the best available, and to our Pattern Wizard that offers an order of magnitude time saving opportunity to our users".
"That we have been chosen as ZF's standard UML modelling and design tool when they have been working with UML for so long is testimony to the reliability and comprehensive support that we provide".
"The complexity and distributed development inherent in automotive design is making Real-time Studio an increasingly popular choice for the automotive industry which is now our second largest business segment".
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