Overview
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
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