Esterel Technologies Joins the Wind River Aerospace and Defense Partner Validation Program

Esterel SCADE® Validation for VxWorks Ensures Qualified Code Generation for Aerospace and Defense Customers

Elancourt, France & Boston, Massachusetts — April 20, 2010

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for mission- and safety-critical systems has announced its membership in the Wind River Partner Validation Program for the aerospace and defense markets. The Wind River Partner Validation Program offers validated software components and an ecosystem with a clear commitment to industry connectivity, vertical application stacks, and tools.

By participating in this program, Esterel Technologies' customers will be assured that the SCADE Suite KCG™ and SCADE Display KCG™ certified code generators properly translate SCADE formal graphical models to efficient executable code running on VxWorks platforms. For customers developing applications such as mission- and safety-critical avionics, manned or unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), launchers, helicopters, missiles and other complex control- or display-related applications in aerospace and defense, this commitment to quality and interoperability ensures the software will operate as designed running under VxWorks. For those customers developing safety-critical software, further assurance comes from the fact that SCADE KCG® has been qualified under DO-178B up to Level A as a development tool. In fact, in the aerospace sector alone, SCADE has been proven in production on over thirty aircraft, many of which have also utilized VxWorks.

Esterel Technologies' membership in the Wind River Aerospace and Defense Partner Validation Program follows on the heels of its membership in a similar Wind River partner program targeted at the industrial market segment where the SCADE KCG code generator has been certified by TÜV SÜD to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) under IEC 61508, providing further evidence of Esterel Technologies' commitment to certified application generation.

For Esterel Technologies and Wind River's joint customers, these validation programs ensure their mutual clients can benefit from proven tool-chain solutions, mitigating risk and shortening the time-to-market and also time-to-certification, should that be required.

For our mutual customers developing mission- and safety-critical applications, our commitment to support VxWorks saves our customers time and money. More specifically, by seamlessly integrating formal model-based development and verification with qualified code generation and the VxWorks platform, our customers receive an industry proven solution that shortens the development cycle while ensuring product quality, said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.

Wind River and Esterel Technologies continue to build on a very strong relationship to offer even more value to our joint customers in the aerospace and defense industry. With SCADE Suite and SCADE Display, developers of critical embedded control applications and critical embedded displays can model, verify, and target VxWorks-based application software, quickly, shortening time-to-market and mitigating project risk, said Chip Downing, Director, Aerospace and Defense, Wind River. As a key component of a layered safety assurance architecture, Esterel's SCADE family of tools is a proven path to reducing certification risk in complex safety-critical systems.

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 up to level A for military and aerospace industries.

About Esterel Technologies - An ISO 9001:2008 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, Russia and China. Esterel is supported by channel and service partners worldwide.

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

Press Contacts:

Kara Gremillion

Phone : +1 (781) 762-4689

Email : kara.gremillion@esterel-technologies.com

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SCADE, SCADE Suite, SCADE Display is a registered trademarks of Esterel Technologies.
KCG is trademark of Esterel Technologies.

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