Esterel Technologies Announces Immediate Availability of SCADE LifeCycle™

New product line extends the functionality of SCADE products towards full critical applications life cycle management

Elancourt, France and Boston, Massachusetts — March 2, 2011

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for critical systems and software, today announced the immediate availability of SCADE LifeCycle, a new Esterel Technologies product line that integrates with SCADE Suite®, SCADE Display® and SCADE System™ to ensure efficiency, completeness, and long-term maintainability of SCADE® applications. The following SCADE LifeCycle products are immediately available: SCADE LifeCycle Requirements Management Gateway™ for requirements management and traceability and SCADE LifeCycle Reporter™ for automatic documentation generation. Additionally, aerospace and defense systems and software developers can take advantage of SCADE LifeCycle's Certification Plans for DO-178B Certification Plans for SCADE Suite Applications Level A and B.

SCADE LifeCycle provides solutions that allow systems and software developers to extend the effectiveness and efficiency of their SCADE applications over their full life cycle. We will continue to invest in the growth of the SCADE LifeCycle product line. Tools currently in development include a SCADE LifeCycle Dashboard Server for enabling automatic production of metrics from SCADE designs and their availability on intranet, extranet and secured mobile internet devices. states Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.

SCADE LifeCycle Requirements Management Gateway

The SCADE LifeCycle Requirements Management Gateway allows users to graphically manage links between SCADE models and other structured documents, in particular, high-level requirements and test plans. SCADE LifeCycle Requirements Management Gateway enables connections to numerous commercial off-the-shelf requirements management and authoring tools. Additionally, users can extend their requirements management capability by adding a number of SCADE LifeCycle Management Gateway connections to third-party modeling tools.

SCADE LifeCycle Reporter

The SCADE LifeCycle Reporter automates the time-consuming job of creating detailed and complete reports from SCADE designs and their related code. It includes generic templates that can be easily modified by users and produces documentation that is 100 percent accurate and always up-to-date.

DO-178B Certification Plans for SCADE Suite Applications Level A and B

Embedded avionics software developers can utilize and customize these plans to guide them through the DO-178B certification process and audit with the FAA, EASA, Transport Canada and other certification authorities for Level A and B objectives. These plans are easily customizable to specific projects.

About Esterel Technologies

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

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, Russia and China. Esterel is supported by channel and service partners worldwide.

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

Press Contact:

Kara Gremillion

Phone : 1-781-762-4689

Email : kara.gremillion@esterel-technologies.com

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