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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 by industrials are:
28IP-XACT and industrial flow integration (\mds),
29HPC (\bull) and IP integration in SoC design flow (\mds, \thales).
30\thales will represent the FPGA users, \bull the HPC users, and \mds the SoC integrators.
31
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33\subsubsection{\mdslong}
34
35Magillem Design Services has been established by a team of seasoned engineers and a
36group of business angels in the fall of 2006. The company has inherited Magillem, a
37robust and innovative technology worth 120 man years. The Magillem environment is
38dedicated to the design, verification and flow management of complex HW/SW based on IP-XACT.
39In the service area, we audit the existing industrial flows and propose a work plan to
40adapt them to IP-XACT, we validate and verify the full compatibility of tools interfaces
41into a flow testbench, we test the IP deliverables against a benchmark for compliance
42using our IP-XACT packager, and check IP integration properties onto a test system.
43Magillem's tools are used in the most advanced production flows of integrated circuit
44manufacturers (ST, NXP, TI, Qualcomm, etc.) and are linked with the research work of
45the best laboratories of the domain (LIP6, TIMA, Fhg, OFFIS, etc.). Our participation
46to leading European collaborative projects (e.g. IST COMPLEX, SPRINT, ICODES, etc.)
47allow us to maintain a high level of innovation around our core technology: SoC design
48methodologies at ESL, design and verification in AMS domain, HW/SW co-design, safety
49and security of systems.
50Beyond this core technology domain, Magillem has evolved with the tool suite called
51Revenge, answering to wider assembly issues for large heterogeneous systems.
52
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54\subsubsection{\upmc}
55
56University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) is the largest university in France (7400
57employees, 38000 students).
58The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
59UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
60de la Recherche Scientifique).
61The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of 40 permanent
62researchers and 40 PHD students.
63The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design.
64\parlf
65The SoC department has been involved in several projects: IDPS, EVEREST,
66OMI-HIC/MACRAME/\-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT/MESA/+, BDREAMS, SoCLib, TSAR.
67It developed and maintains the public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE that is installed in more than
68200 universities worldwide. It is also in charge of the SoCLib technical
69coordination and WEB server.
70\parlf
71Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
72software policy, the SoC department is ready to support start-ups :
73Six startup companies have been created by former
74researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
75%The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts.
76%The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
77%It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
78%Moreover, the LIP6 developed during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
79%synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
80%This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
81
82%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
83\subsubsection{\ubs}
84
85The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information,
86de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory
87(UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south
88Brittany.
89%: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de
90%Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB).
91%The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM),
92%Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge,
93%information and decision (CID).
94It represents a staff of 279 peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD
95students.
96The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20
97books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22
98patents and 69 PHDs diploma.
99\parlf
100%The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research
101%projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA,
102%A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...),
103%CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE
104%...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES,
105%IST/AETHER ...).
106The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several projects (SystemC'Mantic,
107EPICURE, MILPAT, ALIPTA, A3S, MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE,
108ICTER, COSIP,  PALMYRE, ITEA/SPICES, IST/AETHER.
109%These projects are conducted through tight cooperation
110%with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France
111%Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, \thales Com., \thales Avionics, AIRBUS,
112%BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...).
113%Results of those or former
114%projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS
115%syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool
116%Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
117\parlf
118The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC),
119located in Lorient, is involved in COACH.
120The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems
121and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time
122embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level
123synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software
124co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the
125UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains
126which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
127
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129\subsubsection{\liplong}
130The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
131of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
132Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers
133and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of
134expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers
135and automatic parallelization. Its members were among the initiators
136of the polyhedral model for automatic parallelization and program
137optimization generally. It  has authored or contributed to
138several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
139and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
140with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
141
142%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
143\subsubsection{\tima}
144The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics
145for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory
146sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159),
147Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universit\'{e} Joseph Fourier
148(UJF).
149The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test,
150CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and
151digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
152Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
153\parlf
154Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
15532 ongoing French/European funded projects.
156Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
157and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
158\parlf
159The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
160involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
161Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor
162SoC and Hardware/Software interface.
163
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165\subsubsection{\inria}
166
167INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science
168and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
169Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and
170applied research in information and communication science and
171technology (ICST).
172It has workforce of 3800 persons that work in 168 joint research project-teams.
173\parlf
174The Institute plays a major role in technology
175transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of
176scientific and technical information, development, as well as
177providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
178Being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
179the development of ICST in France.
180\parlf
181The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
182system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
183execution.
184To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
185students, post-docs and engineers.
186CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
187angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
188of associated transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the
189exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
190CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
191%By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
192%Throughout its eight research centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis,
193%Grenoble, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3800, 2800
194%of whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such as CNRS
195%(the French National Center for Scientific Research), universities and leading
196%engineering schools.
197%They work in 168 joint research project-teams.
198%Many INRIA researchers are also professors and approximately 1 000 doctoral
199%students work on theses as part of INRIA research project-teams.
200%\parlf
201%INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology
202%transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety
203%companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a
204%subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying,
205%and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. INRIA is
206%involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the
207%W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.
208%\parlf
209%INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In
210%Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research
211%institutes from 19 European countries. INRIA is a partner in about 120
212%FP6 actions and 40 FP7 actions, mainly in the ICST field. INRIA also
213%collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad
214%(joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training
215%and internship programs).
216
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218\subsubsection{\bull}
219
220\bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the
221most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help
222them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT
223infrastructure and their applications.
224\\%\parlf
225\bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication
226and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough
227understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to
228efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to
229over 100 countries worldwide.
230\parlf
231The team participating to the COACH project is from the Server Development Department
232based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France. The SD Department is in charge of developing
233hardware for open servers (e.g. NovaScale) and HPC solutions. Its main activities range
234from architecture specification, ASIC design/verification/prototyping to board design and
235include also specific EDA development to complement standard tools.
236
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238\subsubsection{\thales}
239
240\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
241core businesses (aerospace, defence, security).
242It employs 68000 people worldwide, and is present in 50 countries.
243TRT (\thales Research \& Technology) operates at the corporate level as the technical
244community network architect, in charge of developing upstream and \thales-wide
245R\&T activities, with vision and visibility.
246In support of \thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and
247speed up technology transfer from research to development in Divisions by
248developing collaborations in R\&T.
249%\thales is international, but Europe-centered.
250%Research \& Development activities are disseminated, and corporate Research and
251%Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United Kingdom and the
252%Netherlands.
253%A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional transfer, or
254%"impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
255%corresponding businesses.
256%The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to develop innovative
257%solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through expertise
258%in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
259%autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision
260%involving information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative
261%technologies including man system interaction.
262The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) involved in the COACH project is part of
263TRT, it is based in Palaiseau (France).
264\parlf
265Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of making the link between the needs
266from \thales business units and the emerging technologies, in particular through
267assessment and de-risking studies.
268It has a long experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
269image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
270ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
271architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project.
272\parlf
273The laboratory has coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable
274technology.% being highly involved in the associated programming toolset.
275The team has also been involved in the FP6 IST FET AETHER project on
276self-adaptability technologies and coordinated national projects on MPSoC
277architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
278Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic).  %dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive computing embedded systems.
279%
280%\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
281%core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
282%and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
283%worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
284%corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
285%upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of
286%\thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer
287%from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
288%international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
289%and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
290%Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
291%transfer, or "impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
292%corresponding businesses. The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to
293%develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
294%expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
295%autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
296%information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
297%system interaction.
298%\parlf
299%The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
300%Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
301%making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
302%technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
303%experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
304%image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
305%ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
306%architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
307%coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
308%involved in the associated programming toolset. The team has also been involved in the FP6 IST
309%FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinated national projects on
310%MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
311%Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
312%computing embedded systems.
313
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