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Microsoft, Esterel Technologies, and Geensys
Agree to Offer Unique Software Development Tools
to Selected Universities in France and Germany,
Offering Embedded Systems Development Programs
Paris, France — June 9, 2009 — At the second French/German Embedded
Systems Symposium held this week at Bercy in Paris, France, Microsoft, Esterel
Technologies, and Geensys have taken a leadership role in helping advance the
development of technologies and methods in the embedded industries of France and
Germany.
In order to keep European
system and software development engineering in a leadership position, the three
companies have agreed to offer a unique set of software development tools at either
free or extremely low prices to a network of selected universities and academic
institutions offering embedded systems development programs, following the
recommendations of the Embedded Systems Commitee of Syntec Informatique at this
event.
Within the embedded software development industry, Microsoft provides MSDN
Academic Alliance, formerly known as MSDN AA, providing the easiest and most
inexpensive way for universities to make the Microsoft software available in
labs, classrooms, and on student PCs (totally free for students). This
membership enables STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
departments to outfit their machines with the latest Microsoft development
tools, operating systems, server software, documentation, and technical
references (including embedded technology).
In addition, students will have complete
access to these tools and references for use on their personal computers.
Free Conferences for students in
their
campus:
Microsoft and its partners invite students to attend technological
conferences on embedded topics.
4
conferences are available: a range of presentations (from discovery to high
level on Robotics Developer Studio, Windows Embedded CE, .Net Micro Framework)
is proposed.
Train The Trainers:
Microsoft and its partners give courses to Higher-Ed teachers on
embedded development.
45 teachers have been taught this year.
Imagine Cup competition – Embedded Development category:
The object of the Embedded Development competition is to
unleash students' creativity in an effort to change the world into a
better place. They will develop their own embedded device whose
function it is to better us all. The Embedded Development
Competition challenges students from everywhere in the world to go beyond the
PC desktop and work in both hardware and software to build an embedded solution
using Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and the provided embedded platform.
Esterel Technologies provides certified development solutions for
critical embedded applications with its SCADE® family of products.
SCADE Suite® and SCADE Display™ formalize,
simplify, and optimize critical embedded control systems and critical embedded
graphics display applications, respectively.
Esterel Technologies’ customers are focused on critical application
development in domains such as aerospace, defense, rail transportation, industrial,
and nuclear instrumentation and control.
With over 100 universities and academic institutions already engaged in
the Esterel Technologies Academic Program, there is an established academic community
which continues to expand and develop embedded system technology.
The SCADE academic community continues to
flourish by having unlimited access to all SCADE functionality, training
material, and electronic documentation.
Geensys, rounding out the software development life-cycle and tool
chain, provides on one side REQTIFY®, its flagship tool for the automated
management of embedded hardware and software requirements capture, traceability
and impact analysis throughout the entire development lifecycle, on the other
side CONTROLBUILD®
, Geensys front
-to
-back
environment, covering IEC 61131-3, C
and electrical circuit diagrams,
for the
design, development, validation, deployment and maintenance of control and
automation systems across a diverse range of industries from automotive,
manufacturing automation, pharmaceutical production, power energy, railway
transportation, ship building and water treatment.
To find out more about the French/German University Package offered by
each of the respective companies contact:
http://www.esterel-technologies.com/technology/academic-program
(Esterel Technologies)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/embedded/default.aspx
(FR) , http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/default.mspx
(Microsoft)
Formation@geensys.com (Geensys)
“Esterel Technologies is very excited to announce our partnership with
Microsoft and Geensys to enable the French and German academic community to continue
to advance the technologies and methods used in embedded systems and software
development”, said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies,
co-organizer of the event, and Chairman of the Embedded System Committee of
Syntec Informatique.
“Our combined
solutions enable the academic world to be more productive and creative when
looking at solving the new complex challenges in the software development
industry.”
“Joining forces with both Microsoft and Esterel Technologies is a
wonderful example of the power of working together to make sure that students
learn in the most up-to-date surroundings to meet the needs of the embedded
industry and eventually keep European system and software development
engineering community in a leadership position for the long term” said Eliane
Fourgeau, VP sales and Marketing of Geensys
About
Microsoft
At
Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our
software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough
ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
We run our
business in much the same way, and believe our five business segments offer the
greatest potential to serve our customers. They are:
Client
: Includes the Windows product family and is
responsible for our relationships with personal computer manufacturers.
Server and Tools
: Software server products, services and
solutions, include: Windows Server operating system, Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Enterprise Services, Visual Studio, System Center products, Forefront
security products and Biz Talk Server.
Online Services Business
: Consists of an online advertising
platform with offerings for publishers and advertisers, personal communications
services such as e-mail and instant messaging, and online information offerings
such as Live Search and the MSN portals and channels.
Microsoft Business Division
: Includes the Microsoft Office
suites, desktop programs, servers, and services and solutions; Microsoft
Dynamics; and Unified Communications business solutions.
Entertainment and Devices Division
: Consists of the Xbox video game
system, including consoles and accessories, Xbox Live operations, Zune digital
music and entertainment device; Mediaroom, mobile and embedded device
platforms, Surface computing platform, and Windows Automotive.
We are committed
long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential.
Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually
evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as
they emerge and to better serve our customers.
Windows Embedded
is a family of operating systems that offer
familiar tools and technologies for developers to quickly bring the next
generation of smart, connected, service-oriented devices to market.
Windows
Embedded features enable interoperability with industry standards and Microsoft
technologies, enabling connectivity to PCs, services, servers, and other
devices.
Windows Embedded is backed by
worldwide support from Windows Embedded Partners and an active development
community.
Press
contact on embedded subjects: pierca@microsoft.com, ericmitt@microsoft.com
About Esterel Technologies
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 headquarters in Elancourt, France
and U.S. Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, with direct sales offices in
Germany, the United Kingdom, and China.
For
additional information, visit the Esterel Technologies website at
www.esterel-technologies.com
.
Press Contact:
Gundel Hahn
Tel: +49 (0) 89 123 922 04
Email:
gundel.hahn@esterel-technologies.com
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 up to SIL 3 by TÜV for Heavy Equipment, Automotive and
Energy
-
EN
50128 certified up to 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 to level A for Military and Aerospace
Industries.
About
Geensys
Geensys is
a powerful new force in the provision of embedded development tools,
value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software
IP. Geensys is privately-owned and operates on a global scale through direct
sales offices in
Media contacts for Geensys:
Sophie Dubreuil, Marketing Manager
Tel: +33 (0) 1 73 54 00 29.
Email:
sophie.dubreuil@geensys.com
About REQTIFY
Reqtify is the most widely deployed solution for addressing
requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis in the most demanding,
safety-critical domains such as the aerospace and defence, railway transportation,
automotive and medical instrumentation industries.
Reqtify enables automatic and customizable document
generation as evidence that a product meets certification and/or quality
constraint requirements at all times throughout the development cycle.
Thanks to its impact analysis and requirements
coverage capabilities, Reqtify gives all project stakeholders a thorough
insight into the effort required to complete each project task (specification, design,
V&V activities, integration) and for each product release. It gives a
unique and global view of the overall project status enabling project leaders
and quality managers to perform risk analyses and to prove compliancy with
project requirements and constraints.
As such, Reqtify is recognized as a solution that can provide
an immediate return-on-investment for projects initiated under quality
standards objectives like CMMI or SPICE.
It has also been deployed or qualified for application development under
certification constraints like DO178B, DO254, EN50128, IEC 61508, FDA 21CFR
Part 11, MODAF and DoDAF.
About CONTROLBUILD
ControlBuild
is an innovative and highly integrated solution dedicated to the specific needs
of control systems engineers that facilitates a holistic approach to the
creation and implementation of automation applications and distributed control
systems based on an object-oriented design approach.
Key
features and functions of ControlBuild include a variety of graphical
interactive editors for component-based
design covering IEC 61131-3, C and electrical circuit diagrams, a structured
set of component libraries (electro-mechanical, handling objects with travel
and detection rules, toolboxes, regulation filters and automatic control
functions etc) and a simulation environment for control software validation
prior to integration and commissioning.
It also includes automatic code generators for C and leading PLCs
including those from Schneider, Siemens and Rockwell, and the automatic
generation of project documentation.
Major companies, including Actemium, Air Liquide, Alstom, China Academy
of Railway Sciences, Dongfeng Motor, EDF, Lilly, Schneider Electric and Spie,
are already using ControlBuild to significantly reduce cost, save time and
improve quality of their automation software applications development.
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SCADE and SCADE Suite are
registered trademarks of Esterel Technologies.
SCADE Display is a trademark
of Esterel Technologies.
REQTIFY is a trademark of
Geensys
CONTROLBUILD is a trademark of
Geensys
Industry Award recognises project for RATP – the
Paris public transport
operator
The Siemens Innovation Grand
Prix 2009 Industry Award recognises the successful use of ControlBuild by RATP,
the
“We are extremely pleased to
win the prestigious Industry Award at the Siemens Innovation Grand Prix 2009,”
said Eliane Fourgeau, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Geensys.
“It not only recognises the growing
importance of model-based design for control and automation applications but
also the innovative achievements of Geensys as a whole.”
The Grand Prix recognises
advanced research and innovation in the areas of Industry, Energy / Environment
and Health. “As all these markets are important in the DACH region we are well
positioned with ControlBuild to grow our market share,” said Ingo Bruse, Geensys’
Sales Director for DACH region. “The award recognizes again the outstanding
capabilities of ControlBuild.”
The Siemens
Innovation Grand Prix 2009 awards ceremony was held on 4th June 2009 at SERI
2009 (the
European Research & Innovation Exhibition) in
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About Geensys
Created
through the formal merger of two of France’s most innovative and dynamic
companies in the embedded market - TNI Software and Ayrton Technology – Geensys
is a powerful new force in the provision of embedded development tools,
value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software
IP. Geensys is privately-owned and operates on a global scale through direct sales
offices in
Please send reader enquiries to:
Sophie
Dubreuil - Communication Manager
Geensys,
262
boulevard Jean Jaurès, F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Email:
sophie.dubreuil@geensys.com
Introduction
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
(ICDs) are a prime example of how embedded systems design is driving innovation
in the medical electronics market.
These
life-saving devices, implanted in bodies of patients, take the concept of
pacemakers a stage further.
Whereas
pacemakers give out low energy electrical pulses to regulate the beating of a
heart, ICDs detect when the heart’s beat becomes dangerously fast and give an
electric shock to restore its natural rhythm (See Figure 1).
In turn, such innovation is driving
considerable growth opportunities
in the medical electronics industry.
According to a recent survey by
Decision Etudes Conseil in
Read more...
By Eric Larronde-Larretche,
Reqtify Product Line Manager
for Geensys
Geensys will be at the Model Based Design Forum in May 26th.
More information
Eclipse Embedded Day in Stuttgart
Eclipse Embedded Day is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and technical managers in the automotive, telematics, mobile, consumer electronic and medical industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part of their development strategy. In addition the event features sessions on Eclipse projects related to the embedded space and case studies of automotive, telematics, mobile, medical, consumer electronic institutions. The event will focus on three themes:
- Eclipse as a platform for application development in the embedded space;
- Collaborating with the open source community, Working Groups;
- Case studies of projects of companies in the automotive, telematics, medical or consumer electronics area
Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from leading companies in the embedded space and experts from the Eclipse community. There is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required.
Date & Location
June 25, 2009 8:30am - 5:30pm
Note: this is intentionally directly after the SPICE Days, at the same location
Sport, Bildungs- und Dienstleistungszentrum GbRFritz-Walter-Weg 19
70372 Stuttgart
More information
Syntec informatique and BITKOM organize the second Franco German Conference of the Embedded Systems on the 9th of June 2009 at the Ministry of Economy, industry and labour with the partnership of the General department for Commercial competitiveness and Services.
Luc CHATEL, State Secretary in charge of Industry and Consumption affairs to the Minister for the Economy, Industry and employment affairs, Government spokesman, will open this Conference.
Click here to register to the Franco German Conference of the Embedded Systems
The DO-254 User’s Group has just launched the U.S. chapter. Tammy Reeve, President of Patmos Engineering Services, a consulting firm specializing in DO-254 compliance, is heading up the group, which is operating as a sister organization to its European counterpart.
The DO-254 Users Group began in Europe in 2004, with the objective of having avionics companies and other stakeholders share experience and effort to address certification requirements, identify paths to improve tools and solutions, and so on. This initiative has been presented at the FAA SW&CEH conference in 2007, and the group is now composed of about 20 companies including equipment manufacturers, experts, tool vendors, and component providers.
The U.S. group has formed out of the success of the European initiative. Numerous companies, including designated engineering representatives, aviation hardware developers, airframe integrators, tool vendors, and FPGA vendors met back in August to discuss the formation of such a group. The initial meeting indicated sufficient interest and eagerness, which led to representatives from 16 companies gathering on January 14-15 in San Jose, CA for the first official meeting.
The European group has been working on a number of key issues, gathering knowledge from across the industry and developing suggestions for best practice compliance. The U.S. group also has identified a number of areas where they are beginning to work on clarifications and guidance for compliance to the RTCA/DO-254 document. The two groups will work together to share information and establish a common point of reference, enabling them to be an industry representative counterpart to both the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
“For years we have had U.S. companies asking to join and participate in our organization. Until now, it was not possible,” said Lionel Burgaud, Geensys Aerospace Business Unit Manager and chair of the European DO-254 User’s Group. “With the formation of the U.S.-based group, we can now share our learning across continents and help guide consistent practices and expectations within our own communities and certification agencies.”
"DO-254 compliance is required on more and more projects, and unfortunately, that can come at great expense to companies who find themselves unprepared," said Todd White, FAA DER and Avionics Certification Manager, L-3 Aviation Recorders. "Much of the expense can be reduced by simply clarifying ambiguities and establishing best practices for compliance. L-3 Aviation Recorders is pleased to participate in these efforts through the work of the DO-254 User's Group."
“Involvement in this group is essential to our efforts to better support the DO-254 needs of customers,” said Michelle Lange, Mentor Graphics DO-254 program manager. “By understanding the common issues and compliance process bottlenecks, we can focus on improving our tools to address these needs. When we do this, the whole industry wins as compliant development processes become more cost effective.”
The DO-254 Users Group in both Europe and the U.S. is made up of a select group of companies that have agreed to work together to invest time and resources to better the compliance process. Group size must be limited in order to remain an effective organization, and the group is dedicated to mature companies able to bring an immediate contribution and experience. Other solutions exist, both in Europe and U.S., to train and support those companies needing support and wanting to learn more about DO-254. Visit www.do-254.com for more information.
About Patmos Engineering Services
Patmos Engineering Services, Inc. (www.patmos-eng.com) provides engineering consulting services for FAA certification and digital design for commercial and aviation related digital systems. Tammy Reeve, President of Patmos Engineering Services, is an independent FAA DER with 18 years experience in the aviation field. Tammy participated in the SC-190 working group, and more recently has been involved in the SC-205 (DO-178C) working group, where she is also co-secretary of the Model Based Development group. She has also done extensive work involving re-useable tool qualification, DO-254/DO-178B compliance for PLDs and ASICs, and DO-254/DO-178B training.
Geensys announces Reqtify 2009-1a
Features new interfaces
for
Enterprise Architect, CM Synergy and RTDS,
new Eclipse
JDT Interface/Tagger
and an updated
RIF
1.1
import/export gateway
The new Enterprise Architecture (EA) interface enables design engineers to manage requirements and traceability data within the context of their EA-based UML designs. The bi-directional import/export capability enables them to see high-level requirements details from any source, creating and/or fulfilling them in the EA UML design and linking them to other project data to complete the overall requirements traceability in an intelligent way. The Real Time Developer Studio (RTDS) interface now enables design engineers to capture and manage both SDL and SDL-RT model structure in terms of high-level requirements traceability in Reqtify.
Reqtify 2009-1a users can now also manage Reqtify project data with Configuration Management tools by applying the relevant CM system in project edition view. As a result users can transparently perform check-in and check-out operations from Reqtify. Two systems CM systems are currently supported: CMSynergy and Clearcase. Additional systems will be added in the near future.
The new Eclipse JDT Interface and Tagger
introduced in Reqtify 2009-1a fills a significant project management hole within
the Eclipse environment with regard to the development and support of
Java-based application plug-ins.
With
the new interface, Eclipse JDT users can now easily manage the import/export of
requirements within the JDT Environment.
The
XML-based Requirements Interchange
Format (RIF) import/export gateway in Reqtify has also been enhanced with the
announcement of Reqtify 2009-1a to include support
for
The Reqtify 2009-1a Tagger plug-in has also been updated enabling requirements attributes to be directly inserted into a Word document as they are defined. Finally Reqtify 2009-1a includes a range of user-requested enhancements designed to improve usability. These particularly relate to the find, marks, filter, document generation, re-loading and snapshot comparison functions.
“The launch of Reqtify 2009-1a
demonstrates our understanding of customers’ key engineering needs as well as our
ability to quickly adapt Reqtify to address them, making Reqtify one of the
most productive tools on the market for Requirement Engineering Management,” said
Geensys facilitates the validation
and verification of AUTOSAR systems with launch of ASIM for AUTOSAR Builder
Enables design issues to be identified and addressed early
in the development cycle
ASIM for AUTOSAR Builder’s VFB-level
simulation capability facilitates the validation and verification of AUTOSAR
Software Components (SWCs) independently of any
hardware constraints and topology mapping.
It focuses on the higher level of functional
behaviour of applications within the context of three layers of abstraction –
the interface definition, behaviour definition and implementation definition.
For the interface definition layer, the ports
and associated interfaces of an SWC that enable communication with other SWCs
and underlying Basic Software (BSW) services are validated and verified.
For the behavioural layer, the “runnables” in
terms of real-time properties and execution semantics such as scheduling,
triggering and activation sources are validated and verified.
The implementation layer deals with the
validation and verification of resource consumption.
ASIM for AUTOSAR Builder’s ECU-level
simulation capability facilitates the validation and verification of specific
ECU implementations as part of a hardware topology.
The use of AUTOSAR’s underlying standard
BSW services, such as the
ASIM for AUTOSAR Builder’s
Network-level simulation
facilitates the validation and verification of multiple SWCs and
ECUs within the context of an
entire
system topology
including network data.
“The
launch of ASIM for AUTOSAR Builder solves the
difficult challenges of validating and verifying an AUTOSAR-compliant system
design,” said
Geensys launches ControlBuild 2009 and introduces ControlBuild to DACH region
ControlBuild provides a comprehensive software environment for the design,
development, validation, deployment and maintenance of control and automation systems
and applications
Paris,
Frankreich - 3rd March 2009.
Geensys, the specialist provider of embedded
development tools, value-added embedded engineering/consulting services and
embedded software IP, has launched ControlBuild 2009, a new and improved
version of its front-to-back environment for the design, development,
validation, deployment and maintenance of control and automation systems and
applications. At the same time, Geensys
has announced the formal introduction of ControlBuild to the DACH region
(
ControlBuild is an innovative and
highly integrated solution dedicated to the specific needs of control systems
engineers that facilitates a holistic approach to the creation and
implementation of automation applications and distributed control systems based
on an object-oriented design approach.
ControlBuild enables control systems engineers to progress seamlessly
through each phase of the application development cycle without the need to
recapture data.
Not only does this
eliminate the potential for design errors and save time but also facilitates
the creation of homogenous and coherent design databases.
Key features and functions of
ControlBuild include a variety of graphical
interactive editors for component-based design covering IEC 61131-3, C
and electrical circuit diagrams, a structured set of component libraries
(electro-mechanical, handling objects with travel and detection rules,
toolboxes, regulation filters and automatic control functions etc) and a
simulation environment for control software validation prior to integration and
commissioning.
It also includes
automatic code generators for C and leading PLCs including those from
Schneider, Siemens and Rockwell, and the automatic generation of project
documentation.
ControlBuild
is applicable to control and
automation systems and application development across a diverse range of
industries from automotive, manufacturing automation, pharmaceutical
production, power energy, railway transportation, ship building and water
treatment.
Major companies in
ControlBuild 2009 introduces a variety of
new features and usability enhancements to further improve development quality
and significantly reduce development cost and time.
It incorporates a new hardware architecture
manager to distribute embedded applications on heterogeneous systems, such as
RT-controllers, PLCs and even simulated hardware targets with the automatic
generation of all communication configuration files.
The ability to use simulated hardware targets
helps developers significantly reduce deployment time.
In addition to its
Siemens and
Schneider PLC code generators,
ControlBuild 2009 also now supports the
Rockwell ControlLogix product family and the RS Logix 5000
programming tool. With
ControlBuild
2009 embedded code generation is 100% faster and a new incremental model
transformation algorithm fundamentally improves the loading time of an
application after it has been changed or corrected.
There are also new communication options for
Modbus TCP server and OPC server, an enhanced graphical user interface
optimizing software usability, and a new XML file import/export capability for
automatically executing a list of defined actions such as building a
configuration or launching a simulation.
“ControlBuild
has already been very successfully deployed in
For more information about ControlBuild customer references and success stories, please visit: www.controlbuild.com.
Geensys at Embedded World 2009
3rd – 5th March 2009,
Nürnberg ,
Germany
Hall 10, Stand 214
At Embedded World, Geensys will launch the
ASIM simulation module for its AUTOSAR Builder tool suite facilitating the
validation and verification of AUTOSAR systems early in the development cycle.
ASIM will initially provide
VFB-Level simulation to test Software Component sets without any
hardware constraints and ECU-level simulation taking into account the addition
of PC-based BSW implementation and configuration. ASIM will subsequently
provide Network-level simulation, processing the artefacts of the entire
system topology including network
data.
Dedicated to the specific needs of process and control systems engineers, Geensys will also announce the introduction of ControlBuild to the German, Austrian and Swiss markets with the launch of ControlBuild 2009. ControlBuild is a front-to-back software environment for the design, development, validation, deployment and maintenance of process and control applications. ControlBuild 2009 contains a variety of new features and enhancements to significantly reduce the cost and time of process and control applications development as well as improve development quality.
In addition, Geensys will launch
Reqtify 2009-1a
new and improved version of its
software tool for the automated management of embedded hardware and software
requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the entire
development lifecycle. Reqtify 2009 includes significant new, user-requested
features and usability enhancements, third-party interface additions, such as
Enterprise Architect,
CM Synergy,
RTDS, and new
Eclipse CDT
& JDT Interfaces & Taggers.
It
also includes an updated
Geensys’ AUTOSAR Builder first with ARTOP (AUTOSAR Tool Platform) compliance
- Geensys
a founding member of ARTOP User Group
- Geensys donates code foundation for AUTOSAR Builder to ARTOP User Group
driveIT
2008, Stuttgart,
The Elektra Awards give the industry the opportunity to recognise the achievements of individuals and companies from across Europe.
The Elektra Awards will be presented at a gala dinner on Monday November 10 at the Hilton Munich Park in Munich.
Geensys is nominated in "Design and Test Product" category for AUTOSAR automotive development kit.
More information soon !
A Cohesive Design Based Management of Embedded Systems Requirements
Mr Eric Larronde-Larretche, Geensys, FranceMrs Eliane Fourgeau, Geensys, France
Mr Lionel Burgaud, Geensys, France
Abstract:
The Automobile Manufacturers and their Suppliers are now
moving towards system-oriented industry best practices. However, to be
effective and used as management tools rather than process constraints,
such methods and associated tools must be agile and flexible in order
to keep Automotive EE teams involved and synchronized.
Definition of good requirements at system level is one of these best
practices, but benefits are secured only when all actors are orienting
and justifying their work in relation to these requirements.
Innovative technologies and methods allow to design the requirements in
both textual and graphical ways, using model-based implementations with
automatic code and test generations.
To have all teams playing the game of requirements management and
traceability is a challenge; the key is in a Process and Tool
combination that can allow to get the information where it is available
and relevant, and to make this information available for other teams
and for management, with minimum extra-work.
This paper pertains to a state-of-the-art technology developed with the
aerospace industry and now deployed in the automotive industry; it also
outlines elements of a visionary approach maturing in the Automotive EE
segment which could well apply to other fields in the future.
Keywords: Requirements management, model based design, Traceability Automation, Impact Analysis, DO178B, DO254, ISO 26262, RIF, Quality Process, workflow, Reqtify.
InfoTech Consulting and Geensys in distribution partnership for Reqtify in Nordic region
In addition
to providing in-depth sales and support services in the Nordic region for
Reqtify, InfoTech Consulting will also draw on its extensive requirements
management expertise to provide specialist consulting services to ensure the
value-added deployment of Reqtify in real project environments and its seamless
integration with customers’ existing tool chains.
“This is more than just a distribution agreement with Geensys, it is a partnership for the Nordic market,” said Anders Norberg, General Manager of InfoTech Consulting. “Requirements-based engineering as a whole is moving towards adoption of the kind of intelligent and pervasive technology that Reqtify delivers. It is one of the most agile requirements management tools on the market and we are very enthusiastic about the opportunity to open up the Nordic market to the benefits and value Reqtify can deliver.”
Reqtify is the most widely
deployed solution for addressing requirements capture, traceability and impact
analysis in the most demanding, safety-critical domains such as the aerospace
and defence, railway transportation, automotive and medical instrumentation
industries. It enables automatic and customisable document generation as
evidence that a product meets certification and/or quality constraint
requirements at all times throughout the development cycle.
Launched recently, Reqtify 3.1
includes significant new,
user-requested features and usability enhancements, third-party interface
additions and improvements, and a new
Thanks to its impact analysis
and requirements coverage capabilities, Reqtify gives all project stakeholders a
thorough insight into the effort required to complete each project task (specification,
design, V&V activities, integration) and for each product release. It gives
a unique and global view of the overall project status enabling project leaders
and quality managers to perform risk analyses and to prove compliancy with
project requirements and constraints.
With Reqtify, engineers can continue to use their existing working
environments to fulfill traceability objectives. Verification engineers can
link verification plans and results to both system and technical requirements
assessments to prove that all requirements have been properly verified.
Designers and coders can easily add traceability data within their authoring
tools or directly in the code itself using their favourite IDE.
This way, everyone stays in their “comfort
zone” with Reqtify acting as a “data broker” and monitoring the overall
coherence against project objectives.
As
a consequence, visibility of project metrics and final project quality are
drastically improved.
“With this distribution partnership with InfoTech Consulting, our customers will not only benefit from localised support on Reqtify but also from the advanced services on requirements management that InfoTech is uniquely able to provide in the Nordic region,” added Olivier d’Arros, International & OEM Business Unit Manager for Geensys. “The agreement also further extends the global reach of Geensys and Reqtify which we are achieving through the establishment of a variety of direct offices, OEM arrangements and distribution agreements.”
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About Geensys
Created
through the formal merger of two of France’s most innovative and dynamic
companies in the embedded market - TNI Software and Ayrton Technology – Geensys
is a powerful new force in the provision of embedded development tools,
value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software
IP. Geensys is privately-owned and operates on a global scale through direct
sales offices in
About InfoTech Consulting AB
InfoTech
is a privately held consultancy and product company located in
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Reqtify
at the INCOSE International Symposium !
GEENSYS will be present at stand 32 at the 18th Annual INCOSE International Symposium that is being held in the Jaarbeurs Conference Centre in Utrecht in the Netherlands between 15-19th June 2008. The event is also the 6th European Systems Engineering Conference.
For full information please
visit the INCOSE website:
http://www.incose.org/symp2008/
and to download the symposium brochure, please
use the URL:
http://www.incose.org/symp2008/dmdocuments/IS2008brochureweb080316.pdf
Geensys will be pleased to meet you at our stand number 32. Please visit us during the show!
Reqtify and Geensys in the Automated Test Summit ! June 5th 2008
Join GEENSYS and industry experts in an online conference and exhibition to learn strategies for reducing cost of test.
Learn strategies for reducing cost of test at the fifth annual Automated Test Summit this June. Leading test and measurement companies worldwide are taking part in this virtual industry event, hosted by National Instruments, to share their tips and best practices. Attendees can watch keynote presentations, ask questions in numerous technical sessions, and interact with live representatives from companies like Averna, Cal-Bay, Geensys, Microsoft, National Instruments, Tektronix, VI Engineering, and VI Technology in the virtual exhibition.
Combines Freescale S12X microcontroller-based evaluation board
with both basic software modules (BSWs) and Geensys’ complete AUTOSAR Builder tool chain with CANbus and NVRAM demos built-in
First of a planned series of different AUTOSAR Development Kits
Read the press release: download the english version / download the german version
Partnership will initially target French automotive embedded systems market
First joint project is the development and delivery of a comprehensive AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) training course
Read the press release : download english version / download deutsh version
Please send reader enquiries to:
Sophie Dubreuil
Geensys
262 boulevard Jean Jaurès, F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Email:
sophie.dubreuil@geensys.com
or
Birgit Petkau
MB-technology GmbH
Kolumbusstrasse 2, D-71063 Sindelfingen, Germany
Email:
info@mbtech-group.com
Geensys AUTOSAR Builder
An Eclipse-based software development platform designed to provide a seamless flow for the creation of AUTOSAR compliant automotive electronics systems
Embedded World 2007, N ürnberg, Germany – 13th February 2007. Geensys, a provider of design tools and consulting services for the development, implementation and test of software dominant embedded systems, has launched AUTOSAR Builder, an Eclipse-based software development platform that provides a seamless design environment for the creation of AUTOSAR compliant automotive electronics systems and ECUs.
The AUTOSAR standard provides the description formats for complete automotive systems including the resources and configuration for individual ECUs. It defines the methodology and tool support needed to bring the various description elements together in order to build tangible systems of ECUs. It also enables both system-wide and process optimisation including the configuration and generation of the AUTOSAR Run-Time Environment (RTE) and the Basic Software (BSW) for each ECU.
To support the AUTOSAR process, Geensys’s AUTOSAR Builder provides an open Eclipse environment into which a suite of open-interface plug-in tools can be integrated. Additionally, third-party AUTOSAR design tools can be integrated into AUTOSAR Builder’s environment. The AUTOSAR Builder plug-in tool suite addresses the successive steps in the different phases of the AUTOSAR design process and enables engineers to easily undertake the various associated design tasks. The AUTOSAR Builder plug-in tool suite includes an AUTOSAR Authoring Tool (AAT), ECU Extract, Software Component Conformance Validation Tool (SCVT) and Generic ECU Configuration Editor (GCE).
The AUTOSAR Authoring Tool (AAT) – Based on a substantial subset of the AUTOSAR meta-model, the AAT facilitates the creation of AUTOSAR Software Component (SW-C), ECU and System descriptions at the applications level. It represents the description data organised in templates and ARPackages. For each AUTOSAR element the properties are shown in Forms and the Graphical Editor allows the elements to be displayed as diagrams as well as enabling the creation of new elements. Rule checking of all standard descriptions for AUTOSAR systems with automatic error correction prevents engineers from entering inconsistent or invalid data and notifies them of potential or committed errors. The AAT provides practical assistance to the user to realise the tedious task of creating AUTOSAR standard descriptions.
ECU Extract – This is a companion feature of the AAT which allows the user to extract a single ECU specific description from the overall vehicle description, in complete compliance with the AUTOSAR methodology and specification.
The Software Component Conformance Validation Tool (SCVT) – Functioning at the applications level, the SCVT verifies the description of SW-Cs. It provides analysis based on description rules for SW-Cs, static analysis of application code and RTE code generated at the Contract Phase, verifying the coherence between SW-C descriptions and the associated code. It also provides reports on the analysis/validation of the code.
The Generic ECU Configuration Editor (GCE) – The GCE facilitates the creation and configuration of Basic Software module parameters based on the AUTOSAR standard and methodology. It ensures strict conformance to the AUTOSAR specification and validation of all AUTOSAR rules and requirements. The GCE is implemented as three separate plug-ins: The ECU Parameter Definition (EPD) plug-in is used to create or modify ECU parameter definitions and can also be used to create XML format parameter definitions for any other software module other than AUTOSAR BSW; the BSW Module Description (BMD) plug-in is used to create or modify BSW module definitions and configurations, by BSW vendors; and the ECU Parameter Configuration (EPC) plug-in is used to create or modify ECU parameter configurations and to integrate BSW module configurations, by system integrators.
Commenting on the launch of AUTOSAR Builder, Eliane Fourgeau, Chief Operating Officer of TNI-Software said: “The AUTOSAR standard is opening the door to novel electrical/electronic development methodologies and tools as well as new business models where OEMs and suppliers will have to define collaborative development processes based on an open development tool paradigm. AUTOSAR Builder has been developed to meet the design tool challenges laid down by AUTOSAR within the context of an open, extensible and fully scalable vendor-neutral environment that facilitates complete interoperability with third-party AUTOSAR development tools such as Run-Time Environment Generator tools and Configuration Generation tools.”
Founded in 2007, Geensys is a powerful new force in the provision of value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, embedded development tools and embedded software IP. Privately-owned and operating on a global scale through direct sales offices in France, Japan and China and through resellers in the USA and Europe, Geensys has been created through the formal merger of two of France’s most innovative and dynamic companies in the embedded market - TNI Software and Ayrton Technology.
Geensys brings together a broad range of complementary embedded services and products founded on a commitment to quality, backed by an extensive, well-proven track record and designed to satisfy the embedded development requirements of the global automotive, aerospace, defence, railway, industrial automation and telecommunications industries.
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