Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Artisan Software Tools
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 February 2006
Alliance bridges software design gap
Artisan Software Tools and Aquintos have collaborated on a model-to-model transformation solution to bridge the design gap in established embedded software development processes and design flows
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Artisan Software Tools, a global leader for UML 2 and SysML-based real-time systems and software modelling tools, and Aquintos, the German startup company specialising in integration technology for model-based CASE tools, have successfully collaborated on a model-to-model transformation solution which bridges the design gap that has opened up in established embedded software development processes and design flows.
The design gap, which is particularly acute in the automotive, avionics and transportation industries, results from the use of different model-driven tools and methodologies within a single design flow and the ease with which models can be converted from one system to another.
Typically, solutions for model transformation are hard coded and consequently often fail to meet developers' precise requirements.
As a result of the collaboration, Aquintos has created an innovative, rules-based model-to-model transformation solution which can be used for migrating, synchronising, optimising and re-using models between different model-based embedded software development environments.
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The solution is achieved using a special version of Artisan Studio's UML modelling technology which has been integrated with the Aquintos.GS and Aquintos.M2M tools.
The solution uses an easily maintainable UML model to specify and implement a series of transformation rules.
The solution currently supports the standard blockset library of both Mathworks' Matlab/Simulink and ETAS' Ascet.
'Our collaboration with Aquintos has created a particularly elegant solution to what has fast become a rather tricky problem in the embedded software development world', said Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of Artisan Software Tools.
'With the integration of Artisan Studio and the Aquintos tools we have created a model-to-model transformation solution that eliminates the headache involved in using otherwise incompatible modelling technologies for embedded software development'.
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