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News Release from: Esterel Technologies | Subject: Scade Drive 5.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2005
Upgrade for automotive software
development
Esterel Technologies has released a new version of its Scade Drive product specifically aimed at the automotive market.
Esterel Technologies has released a new version of its Scade Drive product specifically aimed at the automotive market "Scade Drive 5.0 has been designed to reduce automotive software development costs as well as electronics equipment series costs, while achieving the highest levels of safety", said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Scade Drive 5.0 code generator KCG 4.2 has just received a product certificate by TUV Automotive , TUV SUD Group, according to the IEC61508 standard, a worldwide "premiere" for a software development tool.
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This IEC certification of Scade Drive 5.0 code generator KCG 4.2 eliminates the need for unit testing for Scade block diagrams, thus enabling fast and safe implementation of design updates.
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Esterel Studio 5.2 is a comprehensive tool suite for the design and verification of complex consumer and multimedia SoCs.
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"Scade users have seen a reduction of as much as 70 to 90% in the costs of coding, unit testing, and performing code reviews, as well as a reduction by a factor of three to four in the time needed to carry out the effective and verified implementation of specifications changes", added Bantegnie.
The Scade Drive 5.0 formal verification tool, Design Verifier, enables the capture and verification of system-level properties and the detection of bugs earlier in the design process, eliminating many late-stage integration testing activities.
Scade Drive 5.0 also enables automotive electronics systems designers to reduce the "series" costs of production by meeting extremely demanding code size footprint and speed requirements.
Using Scade Drive 5.0 permits the tailoring and optimisation of code generation for each target, while keeping software models unchanged; as a result, retargeting a given function onto new target processors (8, 16 or 32bit) becomes a much easier task.
Double simulation and formal verification can be used to track overflows, underflows, and numerical resolution effects.
Target-specific information is stored in an organised and reusable fashion, saving extremely valuable expertise in code size optimisation across projects.
Scade Drive 5.0 also natively supports major real time operating systems (RTOSs), including VxWorks and OSEK.
Scade Drive 5.0 is very easy to integrate with existing design environments, featuring: a powerful Simulink/Stateflow import/export gateway; a link with the Doors Requirements Management environment; a gateway with all Microsoft SCCI-Compliant Configuration Management tools; a gateway with the Altia graphical design environment; and the support of leading bus architectures such as CAN, FlexRay and TTA.
Scade Drive 5.0 is available in a floating LAN configuration and runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Perpetual and time-based licensing schemes are also available.
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