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Intertechnique Standardizes on Esterel Technologies Tool Suite for Safety-Critical Application Development

SCADE Suite and KCG Chosen for Airborne Software Development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, and ELANCOURT, France — November 22, 2004

Esterel Technologies today announced that Intertechnique, a ZODIAC Group company, has chosen Esterel Technologies’ SCADE Suite™ and KCG™ for its airborne software development projects that need to comply with the DO-178B civilian avionics international regulation. SCADE Suite is the world’s leading development tool for the creation of safety-critical embedded software for military and civilian avionics applications.

"We are very pleased that Intertechnique has decided to standardize on SCADE, as part of a two-year collaboration with Esterel Technologies,” said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of the company. The decision marks Intertechnique’s growing confidence in the value of these important tools, following the successful implementation of SCADE and KCG for two systems supplied by Intertechnique to the AIRBUS A380 program (Electrical Load Management) and to the Alenia C27J program (in-flight refuel control system). Jerome Rame, Vice-President of Intertechnique, confirmed: "SCADE Suite and KCG, its DO-178B-qualified C code generator, have proven to be a very efficient way to implement DO-178B-compliant applications on the systems we provide to the aerospace industry with stringent safety-critical applications up to level A.”

"The SCADE and KCG right-use model has been extensively discussed with the European Certification Authorities (ESEA),” added Rame, “and the resulting process has shown significant savings in verification activities. Moreover, when specifications are supplied by our customers in the SCADE format, the turnaround between a specification change and SCADE-generated C code is almost instantaneous, which makes our interactions with our customers very efficient.”

Esterel’s Bantegnie said, “We believe Intertechnique is an excellent example of how efficient a customer-supplier relationship can be when the same specification and design tools are used by both parties. We look forward to a very successful relationship with Intertechnique, which should reinforce the competitiveness of the systems they provide to the highly demanding aerospace market.”

SCADE is the world's leading development tool for the creation of safety-critical embedded software for military and civilian avionics applications and is the emerging standard in the automotive market. SCADE Suite includes advanced capabilities for editing, simulating, validating, automatically generating code, and documenting highreliability embedded software. SCADE Code Generators comply with strict standards and guidelines such as the avionics guideline RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE EB-12B Levels A, B & C, and automotive standard MISRA, and is in the certification process for the IEC 61508 standard.

About Intertechnique

Intertechnique is a member of the ZODIAC Aircraft Systems division of the ZODIAC Group. Intertechnique, along with ECE, IN-LHC, Precilec and IN-FLEX, were created to provide reliable and efficient equipment to aircraft and engines. These companies, which constitute the Aircraft System field segment, are recognized as worldwide specialists in high-technology equipment and systems for essential functions both on the ground and in the air.

The Aircraft Field segment develops state-of-the-art competency in the following areas: fuel circulation and measurement, systems monitoring and management, oxygen life support, electrical power management, fire detection system, anti-ice control system, external lighting and actuators and hydraulic systems. And to improve and optimize its know-how, while meeting its customer’s requirements, the segment has developed a centralized service department that combines post-sales services for the group as a whole.

About Esterel Technologies

Esterel Technologies products and services solve the problems of high-reliability embedded design creation, validation, and verification with complete tool suites supported by the power of abstraction and synchronous languages. Esterel Technologies’ tools create unambiguous specifications that produce correct-by-construction, automated implementation in software and/or hardware. Today, SCADE Suite™ is the de facto standard for the creation of RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B safety-critical embedded software in the civilian avionics industry, and SCADE Drive™ is the emerging standard for the creation of critical-embedded software in the automotive industry. Esterel Studio™ enables embedded hardware designers to create a golden specification model that can be automatically implemented in RTL, C, C++ and SystemC.

Esterel Technologies is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, California USA, and Elancourt, France, with sales offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and China. For additional information visit the Esterel Technologies website at: www.esterel-technologies.com

Contacts:

Esterel Technologies

Nancy Chou

nancy.chou@esterel-technologies.com

Direct: 650-641-1706

Cell: 408-666-9230

Fax: 650-988-8541

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