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2partenaire et fournir ici les elements permettant d'apprecier la
3qualification des partenaires dans le projet (le \og pourquoi qui fait quoi
4\fg). Il peut s'agir de realisations passees, d'indicateurs (publications,
5brevets), de l'interet du partenaire pour le projet.\\
6Montrer la complementarite et la valeur ajoutee des cooperations entre les
7differents partenaires. L'interdisciplinarite et l'ouverture à diverses
8collaborations seront à justifier en accord avec les orientations du
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12\subsubsection{\inria/CAIRN}
13
14INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science
15and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
16Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and
17applied research in information and communication science and
18technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology
19transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of
20scientific and technical information, development, as well as
21providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
22\parlf
23By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
24being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
25the development of ICST in France. Throughout its eight research
26centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy,
27Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of
28whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such
29as CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research),
30universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 168 joint
31research project-teams. Many INRIA researchers are also professors and
32approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA
33research project-teams.
34%\parlf
35%INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology
36%transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety
37%companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a
38%subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying,
39%and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. INRIA is
40%involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the
41%W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.
42%\parlf
43%INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In
44%Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research
45%institutes from 19 European countries. INRIA is a partner in about 120
46%FP6 actions and 40 FP7 actions, mainly in the ICST field. INRIA also
47%collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad
48%(joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training
49%and internship programs).
50
51The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
52system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
53execution. To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
54students, post-docs and engineers.
55CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
56angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
57of associated transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the
58exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
59CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
60
61\subsubsection{\lip/Compsys}
62The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
63of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
64Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers
65and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of
66expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers
67and automatic parallelization. Its members were among the initiators
68of the polyhedral model for automatic parallelization and program
69optimization generally. It  has authored or contributed to
70several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
71and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
72with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
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76\subsubsection{\tima}
77The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics
78for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory
79sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159),
80Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universit\'{e} Joseph Fourier
81(UJF).
82The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test,
83CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and
84digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
85Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
86\parlf
87Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
8832 ongoing French/European funded projects.
89Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
90and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
91\parlf
92The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
93involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
94Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor
95SoC and Hardware/Software interface.
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98\subsubsection{\ubs}
99
100The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information,
101de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory
102(UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south
103Brittany: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de
104Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB).
105The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM),
106Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge,
107information and decision (CID). The Lab-STICC represents a staff of 279
108peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students.
109The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20
110books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22
111patents, 69 PhDs diploma.
112\parlf
113The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research
114projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA,
115A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...),
116CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE
117...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES,
118IST/AETHER ...). These projects are conducted through tight cooperation
119with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France
120Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, \thales Com., \thales Avionics, AIRBUS,
121BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...). Results of those or former
122projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS
123syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool
124Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
125\parlf
126The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC),
127located in Lorient, is involved in COACH.
128The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems
129and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time
130embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level
131synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software
132co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the
133UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains
134which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
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137\subsubsection{\upmc}
138
139University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)  is the largest university in France (7400
140employees,38000 students).
141The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
142UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
143de la Recherche Scientifique).
144The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of  80 people, including 40 PHD
145students.
146The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design.
147\\
148The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts.
149The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC,
150OMI-MACRAME, OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+
151TSAR.
152\parlf
153The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than
154200 universities worldwide.
155The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is
156hosting the SoCLib WEB server.
157The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
158It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
159Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
160synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
161This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
162\parlf
163Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
164software policy, the SoC department is ready to support start-ups :
165Six startup companies have been created by former
166researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
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174\subsubsection{\bull}
175
176\bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the
177most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help
178them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT
179infrastructure and their applications.
180\parlf
181\bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication
182and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough
183understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to
184efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to
185over 100 countries worldwide.
186\parlf
187The team participating to the COACH project is from the Server Development Department
188based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France. The SD Department is in charge of developing
189hardware for open servers (e.g. NovaScale) and HPC solutions. Its main activities range
190from architecture specification, ASIC design/verification/prototyping to board design and
191include also specific EDA development to complement standard tools.
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194\subsubsection{\thales}
195
196\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
197core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
198and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
199worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
200corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
201upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of
202\thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer
203from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
204international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
205and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
206Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
207transfer, or "impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
208corresponding businesses. The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to
209develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
210expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
211autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
212information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
213system interaction.
214\parlf
215The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
216Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
217making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
218technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
219experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
220image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
221ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
222architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
223coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
224involved in the associated programming toolset. The team is also involved in the FP6 IST
225FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinates national projects on
226MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
227Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
228computing embedded systems.
229
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