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1\anrdoc{(maximum 0,5 page par partenaire) Decrire brievement chaque
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
9projet. (1 page maximum)}
10
11The consortium is made of 8 partners: 5 academic and 3 industrial, which is well balanced
12for reaching the objectives (technical innovation and industrial evaluation for further exploitation).
13Each academic partner is expert in a few area and each industrial brings a
14different approach to the use of the tools.
15\parlf
16The expertise domains of academic partners are
17MPSoC design \& virtual prototyping (\upmc, \tima),
18micro-architecture design (\upmc, \tima, \ubs),
19HLS (\upmc, \tima, \ubs),
20embedded OS (\tima),
21compilation (\ubs, \lip),
22polyhedral model (\lip),
23HPC (\lip, \upmc) and
24ASIP design (\inria).
25These domains cover all the COACH aspects.
26\parlf
27The approach to the use of the tools of industrials are:
28IP-XACT and industrial flow integration (\mds),
29HPC (\bull) and
30\mustbecompleted{XXX "par MAGILEM ou TRT"} (\thales).
31\thales will represent the FPGA users, \bull the HPC users, and \mds the SoC integrators.
32
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34\subsubsection{\mdslong}
35
36Magillem Design Services has been established by a team of seasoned engineers and a
37group of business angels in the fall of 2006. The company has inherited Magillem, a
38robust and innovative technology worth 120 man years. The Magillem environment is
39dedicated to the design, verification and flow management of complex HW/SW based on IP-XACT.
40In the service area, we audit the existing industrial flows and propose a work plan to
41adapt them to IP-XACT, we validate and verify the full compatibility of tools interfaces
42into a flow testbench, we test the IP deliverables against a benchmark for compliance
43using our IP-XACT packager, and check IP integration properties onto a test system.
44Magillem's tools are used in the most advanced production flows of integrated circuit
45manufacturers (ST, NXP, TI, Qualcomm, etc.) and are linked with the research work of
46the best laboratories of the domain (LIP6, TIMA, Fhg, OFFIS, etc.). Our participation
47to leading European collaborative projects (e.g. IST COMPLEX, SPRINT, ICODES, etc.)
48allow us to maintain a high level of innovation around our core technology: SoC design
49methodologies at ESL, design and verification in AMS domain, HW/SW co-design, safety
50and security of systems.
51Beyond this core technology domain, Magillem has evolved with the tool suite called
52Revenge, answering to wider assembly issues for large heterogeneous systems.
53
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55\subsubsection{\upmc}
56
57University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) is the largest university in France (7400
58employees, 38000 students).
59The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
60UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
61de la Recherche Scientifique).
62The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of 40 permanent
63researchers and 40 PHD students.
64The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design.
65\parlf
66The SoC department has been involved in several projects: IDPS, EVEREST,
67OMI-HIC/MACRAME/\-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT/MESA/+, BDREAMS, SoCLib, TSAR.
68It developed and maintains the public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE that is installed in more than
69200 universities worldwide. It is also in charge of the SoCLib technical
70coordination and WEB server.
71\parlf
72Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
73software policy, the SoC department is ready to support start-ups :
74Six startup companies have been created by former
75researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
76%The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts.
77%The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
78%It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
79%Moreover, the LIP6 developed during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
80%synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
81%This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
82
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84\subsubsection{\ubs}
85
86The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information,
87de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory
88(UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south
89Brittany.
90%: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de
91%Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB).
92%The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM),
93%Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge,
94%information and decision (CID).
95It represents a staff of 279 peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD
96students.
97The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20
98books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22
99patents and 69 PHDs diploma.
100\parlf
101%The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research
102%projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA,
103%A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...),
104%CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE
105%...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES,
106%IST/AETHER ...).
107The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several projects (SystemC'Mantic,
108EPICURE, MILPAT, ALIPTA, A3S, MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE,
109ICTER, COSIP,  PALMYRE, ITEA/SPICES, IST/AETHER.
110%These projects are conducted through tight cooperation
111%with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France
112%Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, \thales Com., \thales Avionics, AIRBUS,
113%BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...).
114%Results of those or former
115%projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS
116%syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool
117%Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
118\parlf
119The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC),
120located in Lorient, is involved in COACH.
121The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems
122and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time
123embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level
124synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software
125co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the
126UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains
127which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
128
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130\subsubsection{\liplong}
131The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
132of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
133Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers
134and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of
135expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers
136and automatic parallelization. Its members were among the initiators
137of the polyhedral model for automatic parallelization and program
138optimization generally. It  has authored or contributed to
139several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
140and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
141with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
142
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144\subsubsection{\tima}
145The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics
146for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory
147sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159),
148Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universit\'{e} Joseph Fourier
149(UJF).
150The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test,
151CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and
152digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
153Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
154\parlf
155Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
15632 ongoing French/European funded projects.
157Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
158and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
159\parlf
160The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
161involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
162Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor
163SoC and Hardware/Software interface.
164
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166\subsubsection{\inria}
167
168INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science
169and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
170Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and
171applied research in information and communication science and
172technology (ICST).
173It has workforce of 3800 persons that work in 168 joint research project-teams.
174\parlf
175The Institute plays a major role in technology
176transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of
177scientific and technical information, development, as well as
178providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
179Being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
180the development of ICST in France.
181\parlf
182The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
183system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
184execution.
185To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
186students, post-docs and engineers.
187CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
188angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
189of associated transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the
190exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
191CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
192%By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
193%Throughout its eight research centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis,
194%Grenoble, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3800, 2800
195%of whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such as CNRS
196%(the French National Center for Scientific Research), universities and leading
197%engineering schools.
198%They work in 168 joint research project-teams.
199%Many INRIA researchers are also professors and approximately 1 000 doctoral
200%students work on theses as part of INRIA research project-teams.
201%\parlf
202%INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology
203%transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety
204%companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a
205%subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying,
206%and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. INRIA is
207%involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the
208%W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.
209%\parlf
210%INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In
211%Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research
212%institutes from 19 European countries. INRIA is a partner in about 120
213%FP6 actions and 40 FP7 actions, mainly in the ICST field. INRIA also
214%collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad
215%(joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training
216%and internship programs).
217
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219\subsubsection{\bull}
220
221\bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the
222most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help
223them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT
224infrastructure and their applications.
225\parlf
226\bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication
227and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough
228understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to
229efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to
230over 100 countries worldwide.
231\parlf
232The team participating to the COACH project is from the Server Development Department
233based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France. The SD Department is in charge of developing
234hardware for open servers (e.g. NovaScale) and HPC solutions. Its main activities range
235from architecture specification, ASIC design/verification/prototyping to board design and
236include also specific EDA development to complement standard tools.
237
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239\subsubsection{\thales}
240
241\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
242core businesses (aerospace, defence, security).
243It employs 68000 people worldwide, and is present in 50 countries.
244TRT (\thales Research \& Technology) operates at the corporate level as the technical
245community network architect, in charge of developing upstream and \thales-wide
246R\&T activities, with vision and visibility.
247In support of \thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and
248speed up technology transfer from research to development in Divisions by
249developing collaborations in R\&T.
250%\thales is international, but Europe-centered.
251%Research \& Development activities are disseminated, and corporate Research and
252%Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United Kingdom and the
253%Netherlands.
254%A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional transfer, or
255%"impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
256%corresponding businesses.
257%The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to develop innovative
258%solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through expertise
259%in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
260%autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision
261%involving information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative
262%technologies including man system interaction.
263The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) involved in the COACH project is part of
264TRT, it is based in Centres (France).
265\parlf
266Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of making the link between the needs
267from \thales business units and the emerging technologies, in particular through
268assessment and de-risking studies.
269It has a long experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
270image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
271ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
272architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project.
273\parlf
274The laboratory has coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable
275technology.% being highly involved in the associated programming toolset.
276The team has also been involved in the FP6 IST FET AETHER project on
277self-adaptability technologies and coordinated national projects on MPSoC
278architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
279Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic).  %dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive computing embedded systems.
280%
281%\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
282%core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
283%and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
284%worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
285%corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
286%upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of
287%\thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer
288%from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
289%international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
290%and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
291%Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
292%transfer, or "impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
293%corresponding businesses. The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to
294%develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
295%expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
296%autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
297%information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
298%system interaction.
299%\parlf
300%The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
301%Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
302%making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
303%technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
304%experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
305%image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
306%ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
307%architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
308%coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
309%involved in the associated programming toolset. The team has also been involved in the FP6 IST
310%FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinated national projects on
311%MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
312%Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
313%computing embedded systems.
314
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