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news French project builds open platform At the RTS Embedded Systems Conference in Paris, François Terrier from CEA-List presented a three-year project of the System@tic Paris-Region cluster of competitiveness whose objective is to develop an open integration platform for automotive embedded system development tools. Led by Renault and CEA-List, the Edona project aims to build an interoperable integration platform for automotive development tools allowing the codevelopment through formalized interfaces over the entire development cycle and the integration of safety-based innovations (multi-pole) and current technology on the basis of new and forthcoming automotive industry standards (AUTOSAR, ISO26262). “The Edona project aims to support seamless development for modular software and to address dependability and real-time control. This implies requirement and speciﬁcation traceability, functional and timing validation, deterministic real-time design, as well as HMI (human-machine interface) design and validation with dependability,” commented Terrier. The project plans and deliverables include to build a common repository for consistent positioning and usage of software tools, to build an interoperability platform for tool exchange and seamless operation over the development cycle and to build solutions for dependability and real-time on the basis of innovative and current technology. “Talking about Autosar, there are three important points for us: enforce interfaces, characterize COTS beyond interfaces and guarantee the link to system, application and speciﬁcation,” added Terrier. The project started in October 2007 and is scheduled for 3 years with an estimated cost of €17 million, including subsidies of €6 million from local and national authorities. Terrier explained that Edona represents the ﬁrst integration platform of Num@tec Automotive, a component of the System@tic Paris-Region competitiveness cluster with the goal of designing and controlling complex systems. The business approach of Num@ tec Automotive is the virtuous triangle business model with an interaction between industry, technological providers and academics, Terrier added. The Edona project is made up of 19 academic, industrial and technology partners: CEA-List, Supelec, Inria, Ecole Polytechnique, Armines, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Continental, Thales, Delphi, Johnson Control and Visteon, Obeo, Esterel Technologies, Monditech, Intempora, Knowledge Inside and Geensys. Home automation group uses Enocean radio layer A group of home automation solution providers has launched the Enocean Alliance to foster the homonymous radio technology provided by startup company Enocean GmbH. The group standardizes on the Enocean physical layer, enabling interoperability between applications. Members of the alliance are, among others, Honeywell subsidiary MK Electric (Basildon, U.K.), Distech Controls (Quebec, Canada), Masco (Taylor, U.S.), Omnio AG (Luﬁngen, Switzerland), and Thermokon Sensortech (Mittenaar, Germany). Siemens and Osram have also joined the group. The alliance plans to develop and market a broad spectrum of interoperable products targeting at measurement and control applications related to building and home automation. The scope of the group’s efforts will include establishing the proprietary Enocean radio technology as an international standard as well as developing sensor proﬁles and marketing of related solutions. Enocean’s self-powered radio technology uses the 860 MHz ISM band and the devices feature a self-learning address scheme similar to the one used in DECT phones to integrate them into a network with up to 4200 devices connected to one node. www.embedded.com/europe | embedded systems design europe | APRIL 2008 ergo-grafik.de 13 013_EETE.indd 13 9/04/08 12:51:09 http://ergo-grafik.de http://www.beg-buerkle.de http://www.beg-buerkle.de http://www.embedded.com/europe

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - April 2008 Contents Chip Industry Confronts 'Software' Gap Wind River's VxWorks OS Part of the nEUROn UCAV Demonstrator iSuppli Cuts Electronic Equipment Forecast Study Says GigE Vision Not Mature Chip Aids Wireless Health Monitoring Kontron Reports Strong Financial Growth Xilinx Completes Virtex-5 Line-Up French Project Builds Open Platform Home Automation Group Uses Enocean Radio Layer MIPs Adds Multi-Core Option to Portfolio Cover Feature: Next Gen Programmable Chips: Why Can't Hardware Be More Like Software? Improving Productivity & Quality With Domain-Specific Modeling Efficient CRC Calculation With Minimal Memory Footprint Do-It-Yourself Linux Embedded Development Tools Hardware/Software Verification Enters the Atomic Age New Products Advertising Contacts

Embedded Systems Design Europe - April 2008

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