Esterel Technologies and Aitech Offer Integrated Software Development and Deployment Platform for Critical Embedded Software

Esterel Technologies and Aitech Partnership

Esterel SCADE® Family of Products Generates Certifiable Applications Directly Targeting Aitech Hardware in Aerospace, Defense, Space, Industrial and Rail Applications.

Elancourt, France and Nürnberg, Germany — March 3, 2009

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for mission and safety-critical systems, and Aitech Defense Systems, Inc., the largest independent supplier of COTS rugged computer products for harsh environments, announce their formal partnership to offer a comprehensive, model-based software development through target hardware deployment solution.

Developers of both mission and safety-critical embedded control applications and critical embedded graphics displays can benefit from the time savings and product quality improvements resulting from the use of this tested integration platform. Esterel Technologies and Aitech have worked together to develop the integrated workflow from model-based development and verification through target code generation and deployment, shortening the development life cycle for critical embedded software.

The Esterel Technologies SCADE® family of products including SCADE Suite™ and SCADE Display™ now directly interfaces with Aitech hardware through Esterel's respective KCG™ certified code generators that provide certified automatic code generation derived from SCADE graphical models.

Esterel Technologies and Aitech already share numerous customers globally in the mission-critical domains of aerospace, defense, space, rail, and industrial applications. This partnership and the resulting tested integration platform mitigates project risk and improves users' confidence in their development workflow and, ultimately, the deployed solution. Example applications where Esterel Technologies and Aitech hardware are deployed include cockpit displays, weapon launch controls, landing controls, mission control, control station displays, and computer-based train control.

For critical application developers in either military or aerospace applications requiring DO-178B certification to level A or in the rail industry who need SIL3/4 certification under EN 50128 as well as industrial software developers operating under IEC 61508, this platform dramatically shortens time-to-certification and deployment while ensuring product quality, said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.

Doug Patterson, VP of worldwide sales and marketing of Aitech Defense Systems, noted, Every embedded designer is looking to improve system cycle time, quality and maintainability. Through the combined efforts of Esterel and Aitech, we can provide a comprehensive platform that simplifies the development of a system in terms of cost, testing and time-to-market.

The integrated solution, including intrinsic support for the OpenGL SC standard, is available for demonstration upon request through Esterel Technologies sales offices. Furthermore, the integration is being demonstrated at the upcoming Embedded World show in Nürnberg, Germany and the Avionics show in Amsterdam.

About Esterel SCADE

The Esterel SCADE® family of products offers an integrated design and development environment for mission and safety-critical embedded software applications. The core products in the family, SCADE Suite™ and SCADE Display™ offer graphical design entry, verification through simulation and formal methods, and certified code generation. These products also include integrated requirements management, configuration management, and automatic documentation generation, shortening the time-to-certification.

SCADE Suite is the market leading, model-based development environment dedicated to mission and safety-critical embedded software:

DO-178B qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries
IEC 61508 certified at SIL 3 by TÜV for Heavy Equipment, and Energy
EN 50128 certified at SIL 3/4 by TÜV for Rail Transportation
IEC 60880 compliant for Nuclear Energy

SCADE Display is the leading edge embedded graphics design and development environment dedicated to mission and safety-critical display systems in aerospace and defense, industrial, energy, medical, and transportation applications. SCADE Display has been qualified under DO-178B up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries.

About Aitech

Established in 1983, Aitech offers military and space-qualified, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded computing products for rugged defense, aerospace and astronautics (space) applications as well as provides radiation tolerant and full MIL-SPEC solutions. The company provides industry-standard, open architecture VMEbus, CompactPCI and high speed serial fabric-based boards, power subsystems, mass memory, enclosures and hardware subsystem integration along with logistics, configuration control, component obsolescence and earned-value management services.

Having pioneered the development of true military VMEbus products for use in mainstream COTS applications, Aitech utilizes its broad base of off-the-shelf products and technologies to also develop customer-specific solutions, deliver superior cost-performance and reliability, and expedite time to market. Applications for its products range from mission processors, fire control, mission control and autonomous robotic subsystems for ground vehicles as well as surface and subsurface naval platforms to tactical and strategic fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, and low- to high-earth orbit and deep space vehicles.

For additional information, visit the Aitech website at www.rugged.com

About Esterel Technologies - An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company

Esterel Technologies is the worldwide leader of model-based design, verification and code generation tools for mission and safety-critical embedded systems.

Esterel Technologies is a privately held company with European headquarters in Elancourt, France, U.S. headquarters in Boston Massachusetts, with direct sales offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and China. Esterel Technologies is supported by channel and service partners worldwide.

For additional information, visit the Esterel Technologies website at www.esterel-technologies.com.

Press Contacts:

For Esterel Technologies

Gundel Hahn

Phone: +49 (0) 89 123 922 04

Email: Gundel.Hahn@esterel-technologies.com

For Aitech

Douglas Patterson

Phone: (818) 700-2000

Email: doug.patterson@rugged.com

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SCADE is a registered trademark of Esterel Technologies.

SCADE Suite, SCADE Display, and KCG are trademarks of Esterel Technologies.

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