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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 specific area and each industrial brings a different approach to the use of the tools:
14\begin{itemize}
15\item LIP6: MPSoC design and HLS
16\item TIMA: Architecture, virtual prototyping, HLS
17\item LAB-STICC: HLS, compilation
18\item INRIA: ASIP design
19\item LIP: compilation, polyhedral model, HPC
20\item Magillem: IP-XACT and industrial flow integration
21\item BULL: HPC
22\item THALES: XXX
23\end{itemize}
24
25Thales will represent the FPGA users, BULL the HPC users, and Magillem the SoC integrators.
26
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29\subsubsection{\inria}
30
31INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science
32and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
33Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and
34applied research in information and communication science and
35technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology
36transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of
37scientific and technical information, development, as well as
38providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
39\parlf
40By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
41being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
42the development of ICST in France. Throughout its eight research
43centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy,
44Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of
45whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such
46as CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research),
47universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 168 joint
48research project-teams. Many INRIA researchers are also professors and
49approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA
50research project-teams.
51%\parlf
52%INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology
53%transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety
54%companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a
55%subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying,
56%and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. INRIA is
57%involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the
58%W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.
59%\parlf
60%INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In
61%Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research
62%institutes from 19 European countries. INRIA is a partner in about 120
63%FP6 actions and 40 FP7 actions, mainly in the ICST field. INRIA also
64%collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad
65%(joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training
66%and internship programs).
67
68The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
69system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
70execution. To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
71students, post-docs and engineers.
72CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
73angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
74of associated transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the
75exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
76CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
77
78\subsubsection{\lip}
79The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
80of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
81Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers
82and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of
83expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers
84and automatic parallelization. Its members were among the initiators
85of the polyhedral model for automatic parallelization and program
86optimization generally. It  has authored or contributed to
87several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
88and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
89with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
90
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93\subsubsection{\tima}
94The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics
95for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory
96sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159),
97Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universit\'{e} Joseph Fourier
98(UJF).
99The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test,
100CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and
101digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
102Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
103\parlf
104Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
10532 ongoing French/European funded projects.
106Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
107and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
108\parlf
109The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
110involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
111Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor
112SoC and Hardware/Software interface.
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115\subsubsection{\ubs}
116
117The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information,
118de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory
119(UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south
120Brittany: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de
121Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB).
122The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM),
123Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge,
124information and decision (CID). The Lab-STICC represents a staff of 279
125peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students.
126The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20
127books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22
128patents, 69 PhDs diploma.
129\parlf
130The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research
131projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA,
132A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...),
133CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE
134...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES,
135IST/AETHER ...). These projects are conducted through tight cooperation
136with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France
137Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, \thales Com., \thales Avionics, AIRBUS,
138BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...). Results of those or former
139projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS
140syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool
141Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
142\parlf
143The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC),
144located in Lorient, is involved in COACH.
145The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems
146and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time
147embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level
148synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software
149co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the
150UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains
151which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
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154\subsubsection{\upmc}
155
156University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)  is the largest university in France (7400
157employees,38000 students).
158The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
159UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
160de la Recherche Scientifique).
161The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of  80 people, including 40 PHD
162students.
163The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design.
164\\
165The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts.
166The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC,
167OMI-MACRAME, OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+
168TSAR.
169\parlf
170The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than
171200 universities worldwide.
172The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is
173hosting the SoCLib WEB server.
174The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
175It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
176Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
177synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
178This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
179\parlf
180Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
181software policy, the SoC department is ready to support start-ups :
182Six startup companies have been created by former
183researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
184
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186\subsubsection{\mdslong}
187
188Magillem Design Services has been established by a team of seasoned engineers and a
189group of business angels in the fall of 2006. The company has inherited Magillem, a
190robust and innovative technology worth 120 man years. The Magillem environment is
191dedicated to the design, verification and flow management of complex HW/SW based on IP-XACT.
192In the service area, we audit the existing industrial flows and propose a work plan to
193adapt them to IP-XACT, we validate and verify the full compatibility of tools interfaces
194into a flow testbench, we test the IP deliverables against a benchmark for compliance
195using our IP-XACT packager, and check IP integration properties onto a test system.
196Magillem's tools are used in the most advanced production flows of integrated circuit
197manufacturers (ST, NXP, TI, Qualcomm, etc.) and are linked with the research work of
198the best laboratories of the domain (LIP6, TIMA, Fhg, OFFIS, etc.). Our participation
199to leading European collaborative projects (e.g. IST COMPLEX, SPRINT, ICODES, etc.)
200allow us to maintain a high level of innovation around our core technology: SoC design
201methodologies at ESL, design and verification in AMS domain, HW/SW co-design, safety
202and security of systems.
203Beyond this core technology domain, Magillem has evolved with the tool suite called
204Revenge, answering to wider assembly issues for large heterogeneous systems.
205
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207\subsubsection{\bull}
208
209\bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the
210most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help
211them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT
212infrastructure and their applications.
213\parlf
214\bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication
215and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough
216understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to
217efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to
218over 100 countries worldwide.
219\parlf
220The team participating to the COACH project is from the Server Development Department
221based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France. The SD Department is in charge of developing
222hardware for open servers (e.g. NovaScale) and HPC solutions. Its main activities range
223from architecture specification, ASIC design/verification/prototyping to board design and
224include also specific EDA development to complement standard tools.
225
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227\subsubsection{\thales}
228
229\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
230core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
231and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
232worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
233corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
234upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of
235\thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer
236from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
237international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
238and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
239Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
240transfer, or "impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
241corresponding businesses. The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to
242develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
243expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
244autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
245information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
246system interaction.
247\parlf
248The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
249Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
250making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
251technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
252experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
253image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
254ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
255architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
256coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
257involved in the associated programming toolset. The team is also involved in the FP6 IST
258FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinates national projects on
259MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
260Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
261computing embedded systems.
262
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