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    1111The consortium is made of 8 partners: 5 academic and 3 industrial, which is well balanced
    1212for reaching the objectives (technical innovation and industrial evaluation for further exploitation).
    13 Each 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: \mustbecompleted{XXX (MAGILEM TRT)}
    23 \end{itemize}
    24 
    25 Thales will represent the FPGA users, BULL the HPC users, and Magillem the SoC integrators.
    26 
    27 
    28 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    29 \subsubsection{\inria}
    30 
    31 INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science
    32 and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of
    33 Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and
    34 applied research in information and communication science and
    35 technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology
    36 transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of
    37 scientific and technical information, development, as well as
    38 providing expert advice and participating in international programs.
    39 \parlf
    40 By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
    41 being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
    42 the development of ICST in France. Throughout its eight research
    43 centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy,
    44 Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of
    45 whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such
    46 as CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research),
    47 universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 168 joint
    48 research project-teams. Many INRIA researchers are also professors and
    49 approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA
    50 research 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 
    68 The CAIRN group of INRIA Rennes -- Bretagne Atlantique study reconfigurable
    69 system-on-chip, i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during
    70 execution. To this end, CAIRN has 13 permanent researchers and a variable number of PhD
    71 students, post-docs and engineers.
    72 CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
    73 angles: the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development
    74 of associated transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the
    75 exploration of the interaction between algorithms and architectures.
    76 CAIRN is a joint team with CNRS, University of Rennes 1 and ENS Cachan.
    77 
    78 \subsubsection{\lip}
    79 The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team
    80 of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
    81 Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers
    82 and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of
    83 expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers
    84 and automatic parallelization. Its members were among the initiators
    85 of the polyhedral model for automatic parallelization and program
    86 optimization generally. It  has authored or contributed to
    87 several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation
    88 and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably
    89 with ST Microelectronics and \thales.
    90 
    91 
    92 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    93 \subsubsection{\tima}
    94 The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics
    95 for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory
    96 sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159),
    97 Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universit\'{e} Joseph Fourier
    98 (UJF).
    99 The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test,
    100 CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and
    101 digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor
    102 Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
    103 \parlf
    104 Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
    105 32 ongoing French/European funded projects.
    106 Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
    107 and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
    108 \parlf
    109 The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is
    110 involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects.
    111 Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor
    112 SoC and Hardware/Software interface.
    113 
    114 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    115 \subsubsection{\ubs}
    116 
    117 The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information,
    118 de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory
    119 (UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south
    120 Brittany: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de
    121 Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB).
    122 The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM),
    123 Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge,
    124 information and decision (CID). The Lab-STICC represents a staff of 279
    125 peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students.
    126 The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20
    127 books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22
    128 patents, 69 PhDs diploma.
    129 \parlf
    130 The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research
    131 projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA,
    132 A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...),
    133 CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE
    134 ...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES,
    135 IST/AETHER ...). These projects are conducted through tight cooperation
    136 with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France
    137 Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, \thales Com., \thales Avionics, AIRBUS,
    138 BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...). Results of those or former
    139 projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS
    140 syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool
    141 Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter.
    142 \parlf
    143 The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC),
    144 located in Lorient, is involved in COACH.
    145 The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems
    146 and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time
    147 embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level
    148 synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software
    149 co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the
    150 UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains
    151 which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing.
    152 
    153 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    154 \subsubsection{\upmc}
    155 
    156 University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)  is the largest university in France (7400
    157 employees,38000 students).
    158 The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of
    159 UPMC, hosting more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National
    160 de la Recherche Scientifique).
    161 The \og System on Chip \fg Department of LIP6 consists of  80 people, including 40 PHD
    162 students.
    163 The research focuses on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design.
    164 \\
    165 The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts.
    166 The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC,
    167 OMI-MACRAME, OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+
    168 TSAR.
    169 \parlf
    170 The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than
    171 200 universities worldwide.
    172 The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is
    173 hosting the SoCLib WEB server.
    174 The SoCLib DSX component was designed and developped in our laboratory.
    175 It allows design space exploration and will the base of the $CSG$ COACH tools.
    176 Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level
    177 synthesis of control-dominated coprocessors.
    178 This tool will be modified to be integrated in the COACH design flow.
    179 \parlf
    180 Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the COACH design flow will be the free
    181 software policy, the SoC department is ready to support start-ups :
    182 Six startup companies have been created by former
    183 researchers from  the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002.
     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.
    18432
    18533%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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    20553
    20654%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     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
     83%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     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
     129%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     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
     143%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     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
     165%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     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
     218%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    207219\subsubsection{\bull}
    208220
    … …  
    228240
    229241\thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3
    230 core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence,
    231 and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people
    232 worldwide, and is present in 50 countries. \thales Research \& Technology operates at the
    233 corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing
    234 upstream 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
    236 from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R\&T. \thales is
    237 international, but Europe-centered. Research \& Development activities are disseminated,
    238 and corporate Research and Technology is concentrated in Centres in France, the United
    239 Kingdom and the Netherlands. A key mission of our R\&T centres is to have a bi-directional
    240 transfer, or "impedance matching" function between the scientific research network and the
    241 corresponding businesses. The TRT's Information Science and Technology Group is able to
    242 develop innovative solutions along the information chain exploiting sensors data, through
    243 expertise in: computational architectures in embedded systems, typically suitable for
    244 autonomous system environments, mathematics and technologies for decision involving
    245 information fusion and cognitive processing, and cooperative technologies including man
    246 system interaction.
    247 \parlf
    248 The Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) of TRT involved in the COACH project is part of the
    249 Information Science and Technology Group. Like other labs of TRT, ESL is in charge of
    250 making the link between the needs from \thales business units and the emerging
    251 technologies, in particular through assessment and de-risking studies. It has a long
    252 experience on parallel architectures design, in particular on SIMD architectures used for
     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
    253270image processing and signal processing applications and on reconfigurable architectures.
    254271ESL is also strongly involved in studies on programming tools for these types of
    255 architectures and has developed the SpearDE tool used in this project. The laboratory had
    256 coordinated the FP6 IST MORPHEUS project on reconfigurable technology, being highly
    257 involved in the associated programming toolset. The team is also involved in the FP6 IST
    258 FET AETHER project on self-adaptability technologies and coordinates national projects on
    259 MPSoC architecture and tools like the Ter\verb+@+ops project (P\^{o}le de
    260 Comp\'{e}titivit\'{e} System\verb+@+tic) dedicated to the design of a MPSoC for intensive
    261 computing embedded systems.
    262 
     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.
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