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

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Integrated solution of Esterel SCADE and LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 enables model-based development and certified code generation to mission- and safety-critical application developers

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.

"Our customers developing flight-deck display systems, will immediately see the benefits of reduced [DO-178B] certification costs," said Joe Wlad, Director of Certification and Services, LynuxWorks

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.

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 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 is supported by channel and service partners worldwide.

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 an Affiliate Member with the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance, a community of embedded and communications developers and solution providers. LynuxWorks headquarters are located in San José, CA.

LynuxWorks is a trademark and LynxOS and BlueCat are registered trademarks of LynuxWorks, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Intel, Intel VT and Intel Core2 Duo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

LynuxWorks press contacts

Kirsten Long Director, Marketing Communications LynuxWorks, Inc. USA +1 408-979-4404	Barbara Stewart Patterson & Associates USA 480-488-6909
Hamid Mirab Managing Director EMEA LynuxWorks Ltd. United Kingdom +44 208-906-9506	Peter van der Sluijs Neesham Public Relations Europe +44 1442-879222