Changeset 140

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Feb 14, 2010, 7:27:44 AM (15 years ago)

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coach

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IA: maj de thales description + maj

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• section-6.1.tex (modified) (13 diffs)
• section-6.2.tex (modified) (1 diff)

anr/section-6.1.tex

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 scientific and technical information, development, as well as
 providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
-
+\parlf
 By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
 being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
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 approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA
 research project-teams.
-
+\parlf
 INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology
 transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some ninety
@@ -30 +30 @@
 involved in standardization committees such as the IETF, ISO and the
 W3C of which INRIA was the European host from 1995 to 2002.
-
+\parlf
 INRIA maintains important international relations and exchanges. In
 Europe, INRIA is a member of ERCIM which brings together research
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 collaborates with numerous scientific and academic institutions abroad
 (joint laboratories such as LIAMA, associated research teams, training
-and internship programs).\\
-
+and internship programs).
 Two \inria project-teams participate to this project.
 \begin{itemize}
-\item CAIRN. The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study
-reconfigurable system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose
-configuration may change before or even during execution. To this end,
-CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD students, post-docs and engineers.
+\item CAIRN. The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
+system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
+execution. To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
+students, post-docs and engineers.
 CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
 angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
@@ -50 +49 @@
 exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
 CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, INSA of Rennes, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
-
 \item COMPSYS. The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
 of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
@@ -59 +57 @@
 several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
 and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
-with ST Microelectronics and Thales.
+with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
 \end{itemize}
 
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 digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
 Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
-
+\parlf
 Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
 32 ongoing French/European funded projects.
 Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
 and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
-
+\parlf
 The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
 involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
@@ -101 +99 @@
 books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22 
 patents, 69 PhDs diploma. 
-\par
+\parlf
 The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research 
 projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA, 
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 syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool 
 Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
-\\
-\par
+\parlf
 The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC), 
 located in Lorient, is involved in COACH. 
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 which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
 
-
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \subsubsection{\upmc}
 
-University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)  is the largest university in France (7400 employees,38000 students). 
-The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of UPMC, hosting
-more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). 
-The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of  80 people, including 40 PHD students. 
+University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)  is the largest university in France (7400
+employees,38000 students).
+The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
+UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
+de la Recherche Scientifique).
+The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of  80 people, including 40 PHD
+students.
 The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design. 
-\parlf
+\\
 The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts. 
-The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC, OMI-MACRAME, 
-OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+ TSAR. 
-\parlf
-The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than 200 universities worldwide.
-The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is hosting
-the SoCLib WEB server.
-In the SoCLin platform, the DSX tool is used for design space exploration.
-It helps the system designer to describe the coarse grain parallelism of the software application
-as a Task and Communication Graph, to configure the hardware architecture, and to map the 
-multi-task software application on the multi-processors architecture.
-The DSX toll will be extended to support the FPGA target.
-Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level synthesis
-of control-dominated coprocessors.
+The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC,
+OMI-MACRAME, OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+
+TSAR.
+\parlf
+The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than
+200 universities worldwide.
+The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is
+hosting the SoCLib WEB server.
+The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
+It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
+Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
+synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
 This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
 \parlf
-Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free software policy,
-(following the SoCLib model), the SoC department is ready to support start-ups : Six startup companies 
-(including \zied) have been created by former researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
+Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
+software policy, (following the SoCLib model), the SoC department is ready to support
+start-ups : Six startup companies (including \zied) have been created by former
+researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
 
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 core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
 and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
-worldwide, and is present in 50 countries.  \thales develops its strategic capabilities in
-component, software and system engineering and architectures through its R \& T organization.
-Its six Divisions manage their strategy and technical co-ordination per domain with
-hundreds of Units in these Divisions developing their technical activities in close
-relationship with their market. In this environment, \thales Research \& Technology
-operates at the corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of
-developing upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility.
-In support of \thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up
-technology transfer from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations
-in R\&T.
-
-Thales is international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are
-disseminated, and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centers in France,
-the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
-The R\&T in Thales is focused mostly on critical information systems,
-processing, control and cognitive systems, and autonomous systems.
-
-A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional transfer, or “impedance
-matching” function between the scientific research network and the corresponding
-businesses. Benefiting from its presence and visibility on the international scene in
-advanced sciences, technology and software, \thales Research \& Technology is perceived as
-a valuable partner of the best research centres (academic or industrial) through
-recognized scientists and research engineer participation in collaborative projects.
-The TRT’s Information Science and Technology Group is able to develop innovative solutions
-along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through expertise in: computational
-architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for autonomous system environments,
-mathematics and technologies for decision involving information fusion and cognitive
-processing, and cooperative technologies including man system interaction.
+worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
+corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
+upstream and \thales-wide R \& T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of
+\thales applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer
+from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
+international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
+and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
+Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
+transfer, or “impedance matching” function between the scientific research network and the
+corresponding businesses. The TRT’s Information Science and Technology Group is able to
+develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
+expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
+autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
+information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
+system interaction.
+\parlf
 The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
-Information Science and Technology Group.
-
-Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of making the link between the needs from Thales
-business units and the emerging technologies, in particular through assessment and
-de-risking studies.
-It has a long experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD
-architectures used for image processing and signal processing applications and on
-reconfigurable architectures.
+Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
+making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
+technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
+experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
+image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
 ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
-architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project.
-The laboratory had coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology,
-being highly involved in the associated programming toolset.
-
-The team is also involved in
-the FP6 IST FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinates national
-projects on MPSoC architecture and tools like the \verb+Ter@ops+ project (P\^{o}le de
-Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} \verb+System@tic+) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
+architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
+coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
+involved in the associated programming toolset. The team is also involved in the FP6 IST
+FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinates national projects on
+MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
+Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
 computing embedded systems.
 
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 level of logic density. This high capacity is accessible using a traditional RTL flow from
 Verilog/VHDL synthesis all the way to bitstream generation.
-
+\parlf
 \zied is a spin-off from LIP6 (Laboratoire Informatique Paris 6) and was awarded at the
 French National Competition for Business Startup and Innovative Technology in 2007 and
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 Eutelsat, AIRBUS, Schlumberger. \navtel participates from the R\&D phase up to the
 system delivery.
-
 \begin{description}
 \item[Recognitions:]\mbox{}

anr/section-6.2.tex

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 Alain Greiner is the initiator and the main architect of the SoCLib project.
 This ANR platform for virtual prototyping of MPSoCs involved 6 industrial companies 
-(including ST Microelectronics and Thales) and ten academic laboratories 
+(including ST Microelectronics and \thales) and ten academic laboratories 
 (5 of them are involved in the COACH project).
-The SoCLib project was managed by Thales, but the technical coordination has been done
+The SoCLib project was managed by \thales, but the technical coordination has been done
 by Alain Greiner, who has a good experience in coordinating large technical projects
 in both industrial and academic contexts:
-
+%
 \begin {itemize}
 \item