model based design validation and code generation tools for safety critical software and hardware applications . esterel s tools create formal specifications that produce control designs code in software and or hardware . esterel technologies a wholly owned subsidiary of ansys inc. has offices in lancourt france and mountain view california . esterel also has direct sales offices in ottobrunn germany bracknell united kingdom and shanghai p.r. china . distributors in japan china south korea israel and india complement the esterel direct sales offices . contents 1 products 2 history 3 references 4 external links products edit the esterel technologies scade product family includes scade system scade suite scade display and scade lifecycle . scade suite was acquired from telelogic in 2001 . 1 in september 2006 esterel technologies acquired the image product from thales and diehl aerospace . 2 it is now proposed as scade display 3 a display framework targeted for real time applications for prototyping display design simulation verification and validation do 178b certified code generation up to level a and integration with other applications . in february 2007 esterel technologies announced a partnership with wind river systems to integrate scade in vxworks 653 real time operating system . 4 history edit created in 2000 esterel technologies is a spin off from the french company simulog itself bought by astek in 2003 . simulog was itself a spin off from inria and many of the initial founders came from the inria laboratory . 5 these include gerard berry father of the esterel language which gave its name to the company . its first product esterel studio was meant to bring synchronous programming language benefits to the industry initially telecommunications and then eda electronic design automation . in 2003 a lustre based one of the other synchronous programming language tool set named scade safety critical application development environment was bought by esterel technologies and the two academics communities behind these languages proposed a way to merge them . 6 the result has been productized as scade suite 6 and its subsequent versions . in 2006 the tool developed by thales to design the a380 cockpit named image was transferred to esterel technologies and re branded scade display . in 2009 esterel studio was acquired by synfora . 7 in 2012 it was announced that ansys had signed a definitive agreement to purchase esterel for approximately 42 million . 8 references edit telelogic sells the scade business unit to esterel technologies . cisionwire.com . 2001 10 30 . retrieved 2010 11 08 . esterel technologies acquires the image embedded graphical display software design environment from thales and diehl aerospace . cisionwire.com . 2006 . retrieved 2010 11 07 . scade display hmi software design esterel technologies . esterel technologies . wind river and esterel technologies partner to create new safety critical software development platform . wind river systems . 2007 02 13 . retrieved 2010 11 07 . http www.inria.fr centre de recherche inria sophia antipolis mediterranee innovation start up http www.di.ens.fr pouzet talks slides fac07.pdf synopsys.com . synfora.com . esterel ansys will change an industry http www.corumgroup.com blog esterel ansys will change industry external links edit esterel technologies page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title esterel technologies & oldid 707927151 categories companies based in paris saclaysoftware companies of france navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 2 march 2016 at 16 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view