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Aerospace & Defense

Over 50 different aerospace and defense programs, both manned and unmanned systems, including certified applications under DO-178B up to Level A, use Esterel Technologies solutions, including the SCADE® product family and accompanying professional services, to develop and deploy safety-critical embedded control applications. SCADE customers include the largest aerospace and defense, naval and military land vehicle manufacturers in the world, including Airbus, BAE SYSTEMS, Boeing, EADS, GE, Lockheed, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, the U.S. Army, and Embraer, to name just a few.

These products provide engineers and developers of mission and safety-critical systems an optimized model-based development environment specifically designed for critical application development. SCADE Suite® and SCADE Display® provide formal, unambiguous model-based development, enabling correct-by-construction designs for critical embedded control applications and critical embedded graphics display applications, respectively. With this formal model-based approach, developers of critical systems no longer need to wait for late-in-process testing and verification to ensure their system is safe and meets the intended requirements. Developers can efficiently create model-based designs that are formal, unambiguous, and correct-by-construction. Because of the rigorous semantics, SCADE provides verification and certified/qualified code generation technology that improves design reusability, maintainability, and developer productivity. With SCADE, requirements are easily traced into and throughout the design process with design documentation guaranteed to always up-to-date. SCADE connects the entire lifecycle development tool-chain and improves communication and collaboration among the development team members.

Proven in Aerospace and Defense Application Development

Applications that have been developed using SCADE include:

  • Flight controls in both manned and unmanned aircraft
  • Mission computers
  • Engine controls (FADECs)
  • Cockpit display systems
    • Primary Flight Display
    • Navigation Display
    • System Display
  • Heads-up displays
  • GPS systems
  • Lift controls
  • Automatic pilots
  • Missile software
  • Guidance and inertial navigation
  • Launch control
  • Brake-by-wire
  • Braking and steering
  • Fuel control and management
  • Load management

SCADE generated applications to DO-178B Level A

SCADE has been qualified as a development tool by the FAA, EASA, and Transport Canada under DO-178B up to Level A. Some of the certified applications in development or generated by SCADE include:

  • UK MoD Watchkeeper (UAV flight controls)
  • Hispano Suiza Rafale Fighter (FADEC)
  • Eurocopter EC 725 Caracal (Cockpit Display System)
  • Eurocopter EC 145 (Autopilot, flight controls, displays)
  • Black Hawk UH-60 (Cockpit display logic)
  • Airbus A400M (Flight controls, load management, fuel control, anti-icing, high-lift controls, braking and steering, displays-primary,
  • navigation, engine warning, system, oxygen control, guidance and inertial navigation)

SCADE Benefits in Aerospace and Defense

  • Formal, unambiguous graphical design entry
  • Increased developer productivity through correct-by-construction design, automated verification, and qualified code generation
  • Qualified code generation enables rapid iterative development
  • Model-based design improves efficiency in responding to requirements changes, increases reusability and improves maintainability
  • Fully integrated tool-chain and life-cycle support ensures seamless, efficient, workflow throughout the life-cycle
  • Improved communication and collaboration between international suppliers, airframers, and OEMs through formal model-based design

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