New General Manager for Central Europe

Embedded World, Nürnberg, Germany — February 13, 2007

Ralf Fachet is General Manager for Esterel Technologies in Central Europe. He holds a BSc in Technical Informatics and has over 20 years experience within the Embedded Software Industry.

After starting at Systrix GmbH as a software engineer, he worked as a project leader and engineering manager. In 1994 he joined Aonix GmbH as an Account and Marketing Manger focusing mainly on the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. Before he joined Esterel Technologies he worked 8 years for Wind River as Sales Manager and European Business Development Manager. With his long history in the embedded software market and deep knowledge of the certification business he is the right person to carry the growth of Esterel in Central Europe forward, said Eric Bantegnie, CEO of Esterel Technologies.

Esterel Technologies is in an outstanding market position, says Ralf Fachet. On one side a market which requires better tools and processes to fulfill the needs of legal regulations within a manageable budget. On the other side the upcoming release of SCADE 6 with seamless support of control and data flow modelling and a certified code generator for IEC 61508, EN 50128 and DO-178B. Existing customers report that through using Scade their verification and validation effort is reduced by about 70% and their total cost to certification is reduced by about 50% - I can't imagine a better moment to join a company.

About Esterel Technologies

Esterel Technologies is the worldwide leader of model-based design and verification tools for 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: DO-178B Code Generation
IEC 61508 certified for all SIL levels by TÜV for Heavy Equipment, and Energy,
EN 50128 certified for all SIL levels by TÜV for Rail Transportation.

SCADE Display™ is the leading edge embedded graphics design environment dedicated to safety-critical display systems, DO-178B qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries.

SCADE Suite and SCADE Display combined in the SCADE Certified Software Factory form the only integrated and industrialised tool suite spanning algorithm, logic and displays design, merging formal verification and certified code generation.

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

Esterel Studio™ is the market leading front-end design and verification suite for control-intensive hardware IP. Esterel Studio delivers the full benefits of ESL synthesis with automated RTL/C/SystemC code production from a single and formally verified Esterel Studio IP executable specification.

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

The Esterel-Logo is a trademark of Esterel Technologies S.A.. SCADE, SCADE Suite, Esterel Studio and KCG are registered trademarks of Esterel Technologies S.A. . All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contact:

Gundel Hahn

Phone : +49 (0) 89 123 922 04

Email : Gundel.Hahn@esterel-technologies.com

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