Research Projects provide the community with access to the very latest collaborative programs in which Esterel Technologies is participating.

CESAR - Cost Efficient methods and processes for SAfety Relevant embedded systems

CESAR is a three year ARTEMIS project, the goal of which is to define and supply industrial companies in Aerospace, Rail, Automation and Automotive with a customizable systems engineering Reference Technology Platform (RTP). The RTP will integrate or interoperate existing or emerging technologies, with Esterel Technologies providing expertise with the interoperability specification and in the definition of the process and means that are necessary to implement the RTP.

There are 50 industry partners including AbsInt, Astrium, CEA, Delphi, Dassault Systems, EADS, Faunhofer, Geensys, Offis, Safran, Siemens, Thales and Volvo.

EDONA - an Open Development Platform to Automotive Standards

Bringing together all the major French industrial players in the field of automotive embedded software, EDONA (Environnements de Développement Ouverts aux Normes de l'Automobile or Open Standards Development Environments for Automobiles) is a project of the competitiveness cluster System@tic Paris-Area. The project, managed by Renault, aims to build an open platform facilitating the development of modular processes that are interoperable and adaptable to different needs of players and trades of the automotive industry.

Partners working with Esterel Technologies are AdaCore, Airbus, Aonix, Arion, CEA List, CoFluent Design, Inria, Kontron, PrismTech, Obeo, ST Microelectronics, Supélec, and Thales.

INTERESTED Project – INTERoperable Embedded Systems Toolchain for Enhanced rapid Design

The competitive advantage of European industry in embedded system design is constantly challenged by emerging as well as other industrialized economies. The FP7 IP INTERESTED project regroups a consortium of leading edge European embedded systems Tools Vendors, all being high tech innovative SMEs, as well as European Major Tool Users representing several industries that are both integrating massively embedded systems and contributing to the overall competitiveness of Europe: Aerospace, Automotive, Railway and Transportation and Energy.

Esterel Technologies' industry partners are AbsInt (Germany), TTTech (Germany), Evidence (Italy), Symtavision (Germany), UNIS (Czech Republic), Atego (UK), Sysgo (Germany), Airbus (France), Magnetti Marelli (Italy), CEA List (France), Thales (France), Siemens (Germany).

LAMBDA Research Project

The LAMBDA project is structured in three different subprojects, each focusing on a specific project goal:

• Subproject 1: Execution platform modeling
• Subproject 2: Integration and interoperability
• Subproject 3: Convergence between tools and standards

The activities between the three subprojects are performed in parallel. Subproject 1 provides precise and concrete industrial use cases that will be used to develop the model libraries with the tools available in the project.

Partners working with Esterel Technologies are Armines, CEA List, Continental, Delphi, Geensoft, Inria, Intempora, Johnson-Control, Knowledge-Inside, Obeo, Polytechnique, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault, Sherpa, Supelec, Thales and Visteon.

SIESTA Research Project

In order to optimize development costs of products developed with SCADE and Simulink, the SIESTA project has been submitted in 2007 to the National Research Agency (ANR). SIESTA studies the improvement of the testing process with the aim to automate the generation of tests and the evaluation of their quality.

The SIESTA project builds on the expertise of companies and laboratories that have been conducting research for several years on testing SCADE programs. SIESTA, through the theoretical and practical results of this work, and in particular tools, face the reality of the industry and take into account the concepts inadequately treated so far, such as testability analysis and regression testing.

SIESTA' partners working with Esterel Technologies are Airbus, EADS Astrium, Sagem, Turbomeca, CEA List, LRI, Onera, LCIS and LIG

SPEEDS Project – Europe's Best In System Development

SPEEDS is a concerted effort to define the new generation of end-to-end methodologies, processes and supporting tools for safety-critical embedded system design. They will enable European systems industry to evolve from model-based design of hardware/software systems, towards integrated component based construction of complete virtual system models.

Esterel Technologies' industry partners are Airbus, Saab, Extessy, IBM, Inria, IAI, Knorr-Bremse, Magna, Offis, Parades, Bosch, Verimag, Geensoft.

GENCOD Research Project

The GENCOD project aims a defining methods to certify the Esterel compiler for hardware (Norm. DO 254, the hardware version of DO 178 B used for critical software).

Partners: Airbus, Dassault-Aviation, Esterel-Technologies, LRI, Thales, TNI.

Esterel Technologies is part of the ARTEMIS European technology platform