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Esterel Technologies Introduces Esterel SCADE® 6.1 – An Integrated and Open Platform for Critical Software Development

Model-Based Development Environment for Critical Systems and Software Significantly Enhances Developer Workflow and Productivity

Elancourt, France and Boston, Massachusetts — 8 January 2009 Esterel Technologies announces the immediate availability of Esterel SCADE® 6.1, further bolstering its position as the de facto standard in model-based development for critical embedded applications. SCADE 6.1 includes significant productivity enhancements to model-based design entry, new verification technologies, and expanded tool-chain integration and interoperability. Enhancements have been made to both SCADE Suite™ and SCADE DisplayModel-based development has improved developer productivity by more than 30 percent for developers of safety, mission, and life-critical systems and software applications as compared to traditional manual methods. Furthermore, model-based design, when combined with formal verification and certified code generation, ensures the quality of deployed applications under standards such as DO-178B, EN 50128, and IEC 61508. SCADE Suite 6.1 builds on the success of formal model-based design and certified code generation by providing formal decision diagram entry, enhanced SCADE model differencing and merging, and fine-grained model-based configuration management. With these enhancements, SCADE Suite developers now can quickly describe, through graphical entry, core decision logic in the application. From a collaboration perspective, developers now have the ability to easily compare and contrast design changes at the graphical level and manage those configurations at a user-defined granularity. This flexibility and graphical approach increases developer productivity and facilitates developer collaboration and design sharing.

From the verification perspective, SCADE 6.1 also introduces a number of significant improvements by expanding the methods of verification and ultimately shortening the time-to-verification of the deployed application. SCADE Suite 6.1 now provides SCADE Suite LabVIEW™ Gateway, enabling software-in-the-loop simulation and rapid prototyping, complete with automatic targeting of LabVIEW hardware and integration with real sensors and actuators. In addition, SCADE 6.1 launches new verification technology in SCADE Suite Timing Verifier™ and SCADE Suite Stack Verifier™ powered by ABSINT GmBH’s aiT and StackAnalyzer products. These products provide unprecedented visibility into the run-time performance of the system, reporting worst case execution time (WCET) and stack usage of each design element at the model level. To round out the verification process, SCADE 6.1 now comes with Certification Kits for EN 50128 and IEC 61508, in addition to the previously available DO-178B Certification Kit.

SCADE 6.1 has also expanded its tool-chain integration capability with a new Java™-based application programming interface for Eclipse™. Packaged as an Eclipse Plug-In, this API facilitates and ensures the connection of SCADE Suite to other tools operating within the Eclipse environment.

Embedded graphics display application developers will benefit from major enhancements in the SCADE Display 6.1 release. At the highest level, SCADE Display 6.1 offers enhanced modeling and development capabilities to developers of critical embedded graphics display applications. Leading these enhancements is a new VAPS® 6.x Importer, capable of moving large legacy VAPS designs into the advanced SCADE Display development environment. In addition, SCADE Display 6.1 introduces new font management and transparency (alpha-blending) capabilities, further enhancing design entry and the quality of the deployed embedded graphics display applications. Furthermore, with SCADE Display KCG automatic code generation, developers can directly deploy these characters in the embedded display target. SCADE Display 6.1, with its advanced graphics library OGLX™ (OpenGL Extension for SCADE Display) and intrinsic layered architecture, supports the development of both 2D/3D applications by combining external OpenGL 2D/3D graphics code such as legacy code, 3D terrain maps, 3D objects, tunnels, digital maps, etc, with SCADE Display generated code.

With the release of SCADE 6.1, SCADE Suite and SCADE Display are now tightly integrated, providing a unique co-editing, co-simulation, and integrated production code generation environment for developers of embedded control application and embedded graphics display applications, respectively.

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 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.

SCADE is a registered trademark and SCADE Suite and SCADE Display are trademarks of Esterel Technologies.
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