PITTSBURGH, June 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerospace
customers can design and develop safety-critical software for the
latest generation of aerospace computers thanks to a new integrated
solution available from KRONO-SAFE and ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS). This
first-to-market solution ensures criticality, safety and security
certifiability for high-dependability applications for the
aerospace and defense industry.
To build safer airplanes, while optimizing fleet maintenance and
cost, new aerospace computers must be built to handle both
traditional safety critical control and command applications, as
well as modern maintenance and monitoring capabilities.
KRONO-SAFE's integrated real-time operating system platform,
ASTERIOS®, with ANSYS' embedded software,
ANSYS® SCADE Suite®, provides aerospace
customers a real-time integration flow suitable for safety-critical
avionics multi-rate applications on single or multi-core platforms.
This avionic automated design flow combines SCADE Suite for safe
and automated development of application software and ASTERIOS for
safe and automated real-time integration, extended to multi-core
platforms.
The combined solution was developed within the Smart, Safe and
Secure Platform (S3P) research and development project. The S3P
project aims at developing a safe, secure and smart software
development and execution platform to facilitate the development,
deployment and exploitation of IoT devices, gateway and
applications quickly and economically.
Safran Electronics and Defense selected this innovative solution
to dramatically accelerate the software development processes for
critical avionics computers, while guaranteeing the same level of
safety and reliability. Safran will apply these new research and
technology capacities to command-and-control computers for
aerospace engine and brake control.
"Dependability is the keystone to real-time system development
in the avionics domain," said Jean-Christophe Jammes, research and technology
program manager at Safran Electronics and Defense. "Ensuring a
high-level of safety during the real-time integration phase of a
multi-rate application today is very long and tedious work,
involving tens of people over many months. The work achieved so far
by KRONO-SAFE and ANSYS, and used by Safran engineers in the scope
of the S3P program, proves that it is possible to significantly
reduce this effort with the automation of new activities such as
the scheduling and partitioning, while ensuring a high-level of
safety by construction. This automated flow also paves a path for
the usage and future certification on multi-core platforms, which
is still a problematic turn for avionics safety-critical
applications today."
"The work so far has established the robustness of our approach
on complex safety-critical applications," said Didier Roux, CEO of KRONO-SAFE. "Our goal with
ANSYS is now to tightly propose a seamless development flow to our
customers. The DO-178C certification of this solution is also
undergoing with the help of Safran."
SCADE Suite automates and reduces the development and
certification costs of critical embedded applications, such as
control, algorithms and graphical interfaces, and includes unique
capabilities for automatic code generation and certification under
the DO-178C aeronautics safety standard. The integration between
ANSYS and KRONO-SAFE brings an optimal integration of the code
generated on KRONO-SAFE's critical real-time execution platform.
SCADE Suite models are integrated unchanged in ASTERIOS, with
high-level real-time specifications, to automatically produce an
optimal multi-rate scheduling while ensuring by construction the
partitioning, data synchronization and determinism of the
system.
"With SCADE Suite, our customers routinely develop
safety-critical applications and take full advantage of its
certified automatic code generation capability," said Paolo Colombo, global industry director for
aerospace and defense, ANSYS. "The automatic real-time integration
provided with ASTERIOS is a natural extension for SCADE Suite to
complement this automatic process one step further onto the
execution platform."
During the International Paris Air Show, KRONO-SAFE will
showcase the automated design flow, which dramatically accelerates
the software development process for critical avionics computers,
while guaranteeing the same level of safety and reliability. To see
a demonstration of KRONO-SAFE and ANSYS' integrated platform
solution at the International Paris Air Show, June 20 - 23, please visit booth ILOT S02 in the
Concorde Hall.
About ANSYS, Inc.
If you've ever seen a rocket launch,
flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a
mobile device, crossed a bridge, or put on wearable technology,
chances are you've used a product where ANSYS software played a
critical role in its creation. ANSYS is the global leader in
engineering simulation. We help the world's most innovative
companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By
offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation
software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and
create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970,
ANSYS employs thousands of professionals, many of whom are expert
M.S. and Ph.D.-level engineers in finite element analysis,
computational fluid dynamics, electronics, semiconductors, embedded
software and design optimization. Headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
ANSYS has more than 75 strategic sales locations throughout the
world with a network of channel partners in 40+ countries. Visit
www.ansys.com for more information.
To join the simulation conversation, please visit:
www.ansys.com/Social@ANSYS
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owners.
About KRONO-SAFE
KRONO-SAFE is a
privately-owned company founded in 2011 to commercialize software
technologies originally developed with the French atomic energy
commission (CEA).
KRONO-SAFE develops and markets
ASTERIOS®, a software tool-suite including
an innovative real-time kernel (RTK) for safety-critical real-time
embedded systems and providing an integrated development
environment (IDE) to simulate exhaustively and integrate
automatically the application on the single- or multi-core hardware
target platform.
KRONO-SAFE serves markets in need for a
safer and more efficient solution to develop complex real-time
embedded applications. These extend to both well-established
markets such as aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial
automation, transportation, energy, medical and new markets
springing up where safety and security converge like the Industrial
Internet of Things.
With a forty-strong team of experts
and a management staff of seasoned professionals, KRONO-SAFE is
firmly focused on software development as a way of efficiently
serving its customers. The company holds a portfolio of patents
securing all its breakthrough solutions developed so far and is
actively pursuing its innovation and patenting
activities.
KRONO-SAFE is currently based in France and Germany, and has plans for expanding to
Europe and the USA.
KRONO-SAFE and any and all KRONO-SAFE's brand, product,
service and feature names, logos and slogans are registered
trademarks or trademarks of KRONO-SAFE S.A. All other brand,
product, service and feature names or trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
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