ZF’s Division Commercial Vehicle Control Systems accelerates the journey from software to application-specific hardware with Silexica

These days, as software content increases in many parts of vehicles, the software complexity balloons while development productivity stagnates. As part of Program 8, ZF Division Commercial Vehicle Control Systems (formerly WABCO), has partnered with German startup Silexica, to accelerate software development for application specific hardware. The team at ZF Commercial Vehicle Control Systems had identified that making changes to any single software module often requires extensive rework. Enabled by deep software analysis, heterogeneous hardware awareness, and quick design space exploration, Silexica’s programming tools significantly accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems, providing considerable benefits to ZF customers. In the early stages of its project, improvements leading to lower development time and effort were recognized. One of the challenges the partners are collaborating on is the appropriate demonstration of results to validate and assess the possibilities required to make further decisions. The next step will be to extend the usage to a second group project.