GosNIIAS Selects Esterel Technologies as Strategic Partner for its Russian Avionics Systems Competence Center

SCADE Safety-Critical Application Development Environment is selected as the core platform for GosNIIAS Russian Avionics Systems Competence Center

MOSCOW, Russia and ELANCOURT, France — June 28, 2006

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of development tools for safety-critical software and GosNIIAS, one of the most prestigious Russian Aerospace institutes, today unveil their strategic partnership.

Under this partnership, GosNIIAS has selected Esterel Technologies’ SCADE Safety Critical Software Development Environment as the core avionics software development environment for its Russian Avionics Systems Competence Center.

GosNIIAS Russian Avionics Systems Competence Center is a systems and software development platform for airborne applications, combining state-of-the-art development tools and compliant with international standard like the RTCA EUROCAE DO-178B certification standard, the Integrated Modular Avionic (IMA) architecture as well as with ARINC 653 standards.

GosNIIAS has acquired Esterel’ s SCADE Safety Critical Software Development Environment, including KCG, its DO-178B qualified C Code Generator that will become the central piece of this development platform. As part of this partnership, Esterel Technologies will also provide expert consulting services to GosNIIAS and will cooperate with GosNIIAS in the framework of international standardization initiatives, such as the DO-178C Committee.

Sergey Zheltov, Director General of GosNIIAS, said, Given the on-going restructuring of the Russian Aerospace industry and its goal to address export markets, GosNIIAS has to extend its competence towards international aerospace industry standards. SCADE being a widely deployed and production proven technology, we are very pleased to benefit from Esterel Technologies experience and expertise in this domain to accelerate the adoption of those standards by the Russian aerospace industry.

Eric Bantegnie, CEO of Esterel Technologies, commented, Esterel Technologies is very proud and honored to partner with such a prestigious institute as GosNIIAS. We aim at seeing SCADE adopted as the standard safety-critical software development environment by the Russian aerospace industry as it is already the case in Europe. No doubt that our tight partnership with GosNIIAS will accelerate this adoption.

SCADE software complies with strict standards and guidelines, such as the avionics standard RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE EB-12B Levels A, B and C, along with industry standard IEC 61508.

About Esterel Technologies

Esterel Technologies is design tools specialist of high performance and safety-critical embedded systems.

SCADE Suite™ is the market leading model-based development environment dedicated to safety-critical embedded software: DO-178B qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries, and IEC 61508 certified for all SIL levels by TUV for Rail Transportation, Heavy Equipment, and Energy.

SCADE Drive™ is the market leading model-based development environment dedicated to safety-critical automotive embedded software: IEC 61508 certified for all SIL levels by TUV and MISRA C compliant.

Esterel Studio™ is the market leading front-end design and verification suite for controlintensive hardware IP

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

About GosNIIAS

GosNIIAS is the leading research center of the Russian aviation industry, involved in main following areas:

Concept development of perspective aviation complexes and systems
Avionics and armament integration
New avionics certification
Development of up-to-date automated research and design systems
Development of unique hardware-in-the-loop simulation complexes, ground testing complexes and flight test laboratories
Development of computer systems and technologies for use in Air Traffic Control, logistics, medicine and other fields of science and industry
Modern avionics certification tests
Instrumental equipment reliability and life time tests
Advanced information technologies for flight safety ensuring
Geo-information technologies, mapping, evaluation of ecology and safety of the Russian main man-caused and native zones

For additional information, visit the GosNIIAS website at:GosNIIAS

Press Contacts:

For Esterel Technologies:

Gundel Hahn, Gundel Hahn Medienservice

Phone: +49 (0) 89 123 922 04

Email: gundelhahn@compuserve.com

For GosNIIAS:

Vera Verzun – Marketing and Foriegn Trade Department

Phone: +7495 157 9801

Email: vev@gosniias.ru

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