Siemens VDO chooses Artisan Studio for automotive powertrain software development
Siemens VDO has chosen Artisan Studio as the principal embedded software development tool
Jan 01, 2008 - 09:05 AM
Siemens VDO has extensive experience in software development for embedded systems but the demands of today’s automotive market are such that increasingly complex software systems need to be built. It was clear to Siemens VDO that successful software development for its automotive powertrain control units would require a seamless process that encompasses both modeling and design, creating a need for a standardized modeling language supported by a flexible tool-based environment.
The choice of UML meant the adoption of an increasingly widespread standard that had the backing of a large community of developers, all of whom spoke the same modeling language. The choice of Artisan Studio provided the necessary, highly flexible tool-based environment for the development of the basic I/O software for its automotive powertrain control units that could be tailored to the needs of the developers. This allowed Siemens VDO to adapt the way it generated code and documentation from the model and take full advantage of the Artisan Studio environment.
Furthermore, Artisan Studio’s true multi-user repository that facilitates collaborative development was perfectly suited to Siemens VDO’s distributed development practices allowing it to be integrated into the company’s existing software development processes with ease.
Commenting on Siemens VDO’s decision, Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of Artisan offered, “Once companies come to the conclusion to standardize on UML as their systems and software modeling language, selecting Artisan Studio as the tools-based environment to implement it is an increasingly natural choice. It ticks all the right boxes for potential customers – delivering a true multi-user repository to facilitate collaborative development, decreased development time through design reuse and the handling of multiple languages within one model, and increased developer productivity through an intuitive tool that either integrates with existing development processes out of the box or that can be readily customized to do so.”
About Siemens VDO
Siemens VDO Automotive is a leading automotive supplier of electronics and mechatronics. As a developmental partner with the automobile industry, the company manufactures a comprehensive spectrum of products relating to the drivetrain, engine management electronics and fuel injection that simultaneously improve engine performance and reduce emissions. Driver comfort is enhanced and driving is made easier with information and car communication systems that include instrumentation, audio and navigation equipment, telematics and multimedia applications, up to entire cockpit designs. Safety is increased by Siemens VDO products for the chassis and body such as airbags, ABS or access control systems. An in-house sales department markets products for retrofitting passenger cars and trucks with a focus on fleet management and audio and navigation systems. For more information, please visit http://www.siemensvdo.com
About Atego:
Atego™ is the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools and runtime environments for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware. Atego delivers a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding engineering sectors such as aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, telecommunications, electronics, and medical. Atego’s Aonix PERC® is the leading, highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java™ programs deployed today. Atego supports native, real-time and certifiable Ada applications including those at the highest level of criticality with Aonix ObjectAda®. Atego’s standards-based modeling tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Atego Workbench™ provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Atego’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment – allowing architecture, systems, software and hardware engineering teams to Work-as-OneSM – from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 2010 in a merger between Artisan Software Tools™ and Aonix®, Atego is headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA and Cheltenham, UK with offices in France, Germany and Italy, and is supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: http://www.Atego.com.
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