Esterel Technologies and LynuxWorks Form Partnership to offer World Class Critical Embedded Software Development Workflow for DO-178B Applications

Esterel Technologies and LynuxWorks Partnership

Integrated Solution of Esterel SCADE® and LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 Enables Model-Based Development and Certified Code Generation to Mission and Safety-Critical Application Developers Targeting LynxOS-178.

Elancourt, France and Nürnberg, Germany — March 3, 2009

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for mission and safety-critical systems and LynuxWorks™ Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market have announced their alliance and intention to build a seamless environment for model-based development and deployment of mission and safety-critical applications.

As we continue to increase our dominant position in model-based development for critical applications, our partnership with LynuxWorks is both a natural and necessary progression to address the growing demands of our customers. LynuxWorks has a special position in the critical embedded software industry and our support for the LynxOS-178 operating system will shorten time-to-certification under DO-178B for our respective clients, said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.

Out of the box, both the Esterel Technologies SCADE® family of products and the LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 operating system provide certified software and artifacts that fully satisfy DO-178B level A design assurance objectives. Our mutual customers, especially those developing flight deck display systems, will immediately see the benefits of reduced certification costs typically associated with DO-178B, Level A design assurance. These customers will be able to reap the economic advantages of a high performance, DO-178B certified operating system and SCADE tools to help ease development and certification of application software, said Joe Wlad, Director of Certification and Services and FAA DER at LynuxWorks.

From Esterel SCADE Suite™, critical embedded control application developers will analyze, design, verify, and automatically generate certifiable applications. For embedded graphics display application developers, such as those developing cockpit displays and control panels, SCADE Display™ will enable the rapid development and generation of certifiable and embeddable critical display applications. Both of these model-based development environments target LynxOS-178 and include certified code generation via Esterel Technologies KCG™, thereby dramatically shortening the time-to-certification for the deployed application.

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 at SIL 3 by TÜV for Heavy Equipment, and Energy
EN 50128 certified at 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 up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries.

About LynxOS-178

LynxOS-178 is the first and only hard real-time DO-178B level A operating system that offers the interoperability benefits of POSIX and support for the ARINC 653 APplication EXecutive (APEX). It is designed specifically to meet the stringent needs of multi-thread and multi-process applications in mission- and safety-critical real-time systems.

LynxOS-178 is also the first and only time- and space-partitioned operating system accepted by the FAA as a Reusable Software Component (RSC). Further, it is the only FAA-certifiable COTS solution supporting both Pentium and PowerPC platforms.

LynxOS-178 provides security through Virtual Machine (VM) brick-wall partitions, which make it impossible for events or faults in one partition to interfere with the intended operation of another. It's as if each partition were its own separate computer.

About Esterel Technologies - An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company

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.

For additional information, visit the Esterel Technologies website at www.esterel-technologies.com.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing open and reliable real-time operating systems (RTOS) and software tools to embedded developers. The company's LynxOS family of operating systems offers open standards with the highest level of safety and security features, enabling many mission-critical systems in defense, avionics and other industries. Additionally, LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux provides the features and support of embedded Linux for companies wanting to use open-source technology for their embedded applications. The Eclipse-based Luminosity IDE gives a powerful and consistent development system across all LynuxWorks operating systems. Since it was established in 1988, LynuxWorks has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies. LynuxWorks is a privately held company with headquarters in San José, CA. For additional information, visit the LynuxWorks website at www.lynuxworks.com.

Press Contacts:

For Esterel Technologies

Gundel Hahn

Phone: +49 (0) 89 123 922 04

Email: Gundel.Hahn@esterel-technologies.com

For LynuxWorks

Kirsten Long - Director, Marketing Communications

Phone: +1 408-979-4404

Email: klong@lnxw.com

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SCADE is a registered trademark of Esterel Technologies.

SCADE Suite, SCADE Display, and KCG are trademarks of Esterel Technologies.

LynuxWorks is a trademark and Lynx OS is a registered trademark of LynuxWorks

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