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Altreonic has been presenting "Transparent Programming of Many/Multi Cores with OpenComRTOS. Comparing Intel 48-core SCC and TI 8-core TMS320C6678" at the Intel MARC symposium in Toulouse on Friday 20st July 2012. The symposium is focused on "bare metal programming" on the Intel experimental 48core SCC chip. In attachment the paper and presentation. For the full program, visit the ONERA website.

Altreonic is partner in a new Artemis EU project, whose Kick-Off meeting was held in Kopenhagen on 13 to 15 June 2012.  Called CRAFTERS (ConstRaint and Application driven Framework for Tailoring Embedded Real-time Systems) it brings together 26 partners covering from EDA vendors, semiconductor designers and manufacturers, software tool vendors, industrial users as well as academia.

Altreonic's product range and roadmap is fully in line addressing the CRAFTERS challenges and will focus on extending OpenComRTOS Designer with dynamic resource scheduling capabilities. Given the abundancy of hardware resources on modern multicore chips, research is focusing on dynamic resource scheduling, whereby a resource is not just CPU time but can also be any of the hardware capabilities. This is using an extended version of the distributed priority inheritance algorithm in OpenComRTOS. The work includes interfacing with other third party tools and defining requirements for the hardware.

Altreonic is releasing a new white paper on trustworthy systems engineering highlighting how a unified approach can help in mastering the complexity. Trustworthy systems require a trustworthy process developing them. The complexity comes from the fact that many interdependent domains and views are involved, including the human factor. But once understood and all dependencies identified, a framework emerges that complements the engineer's experience providing guidance. The rest is mainly applying discipline and working in team. The framework is supported by the GoedelWorks environment.  

Multicore chips are becoming more and more the norm these days. This is an evolution driven by the semiconductor advances that allow to put more and more logic on the same die. In addition, as all is on a single die, communication between cores can be speedy and low power as no off-chip I/O is necessary. Nevertheless programming these chips, especially for embedded real-time applications is a challenge.

Following the availability of OpenComRTOS on the 48-core Intel SCC chip and the 8-core Texas Instruments C6678, Altreonic can draw some lessons. OpenComRTOS was designed to support such targets transparently and in a distributed real-time context by separating the hardware topology definition from the application topology definition. This provides for portability and scalability. Nevertheless, these modern multicore chips are complex and it still matters where code and data is placed. For more information, read the attached white paper "Hard real-time on multicores: shared resources are the challenge".

Altreonic announces the availability of GoedelWorks* an internet based portal for safety and systems engineering. It is made available under a SaaS (Software As A Service) business model.
Based on a formalised approach, GoedelWorks is a new technology platform for collaborative systems and safety engineering project delivery. Developed for use by global and distributed teams, GoedelWorks is designed to facilitate how people work together to build systems and products, making project delivery more collaborative, productive, and transparent. You can think of GoedelWorks as an extensible framework that dynamically integrates and synchronizes people, processes, and resources associated with systems engineering development projects. From very small chips to large networked systems, GoedelWorks is the platform that facilitates teamwork and project management.

Altreonic is now member of RTCA, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics

RTCA, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation that develops consensus-based recommendations regarding communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system issues. RTCA functions as a Federal Advisory Committee.

Membership of RTCA will help us supporting the avionics industry better.

A single approach for many-multi-parallel-distributed systems 

After 3 successful sessions at IMEC in Leuven, we are planning to repeat the workshop elsewhere. We are looking for hosting partners across Europe. Find a place, agree on a date, register 20 registrants and we come to your place. Contact us at info. request (at=@) altreonic. com

This workshop aims at debunking the myth that writing concurrent programs for many-core, multi-core, parallel and distributed (embedded) systems is difficult. On the contrary, a single approach with a solid formal basis can handle them all, including reusing existing sequential code.

Altreonic will exhibit at the ERTS2 Conference/exhibition. For details and setting up a meeting:

ERTS2, Toulouse, France or contact us.

This booklet is the first of the Gödel Series, with the subtitle "Systems Engineering for Smarties". The aim of this series is to explain in a accessible way some important aspects of trustworthy systems engineering with each booklet covering a specific domain.

The first publication is entitled "Trustworthy Systems Engineering with GoedelWorks" and explains the high level framework Altreonic applies to the domain of systems engineering. It discusses a generic model that applies to any process and project development. It explains the 16 necessary but sufficient concepts. This model was applied to the import of the project flow of the ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) project of Flanders's Drive whereby a common process was developed based on the IEC-61508, IEC-62061, ISO-DIS-26262, ISO-13849, ISO-DIS-25119 and ISO-15998 safety standards covering the automotive on-highway, off-highway and machinery domain. Download for free from the download section.

OPENCOSS (Open Platform for EvolutioNary Certification of Safety-critical Systems) is a recently approved R&D project. The project 17 partners aim at a common certification framework that spans different vertical markets for the railway, avionics and automotive industry, and establish a common safety certification infrastructure. The strategy is to focus on a compositional and evolutionary certification approach with the capability to reuse safety arguments, safety evidence, and contextual information about system components, in a way that makes certification more cost-effective, precise, and scalable. OPENCOSS will define a common certification language by unifying the requirements and terminology of different industries and building a common approach to certification activities.

OPENCOSS aims at developing a tool infrastructure for managing certification information and performing safety assurance activities. Within this infrastructure, systematic and auditable processes will be developed to reduce uncertainty and (re)certification costs. To have long-lasting industrial impact, the project will pursue standardisation of the conceptual framework and the tool infrastructure resulting from the project. 

More information will be made available at a later stage.