Cockpit display

Mistral Solutions as extended its product offerings with the latest from Esterel Technologies - the SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions for Interactive Cockpit Display Development.

This commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tool provides companies with a means to define processes that will bring more independence and great control when defining Cockpit Display Systems. The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions help airframers, CDS developers and UA developers to efficiently create and certify, up to DO-178B Level A, ARINC 661-compliant Cockpit Display Systems and User Applications. The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions are built on top of the SCADE Suite and SCADE Display (featured in Mistral’s April 2010 PR), which are both used for developing UAs and CDS logic and graphics.

The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions consist of three products:

• The SCADE ARINC 661 Widget Designer: Enables CDS suppliers to build their ARINC 661 widgets, and associated look and feel, as SCADE Suite and SCADE Display models. It includes a default Widget Library, containing all ARINC 661 standard-based widgets, with the flexibility to edit, modify and re-generate them at anytime.

• The SCADE ARINC 661 UA Designer Environment, including:

o   SCADE ARINC 661 UA Pages Creator: Enables UA developers to create ARINC 661 UA pages by rapidly assembling ARINC 661 Widgets

o   SCADE ARINC 661 UA/Server Communication module: Enables developers to co-simulate their UAs and the created ARINC 661 pages

o   SCADE ARINC 661 Server (PC implementation)

• The SCADE ARINC 661 UA Definition File Generator: Allows for generation of ARINC 661 standard XML and binary Definition Files from the description of ARINC 661 pages, with its DO-178B level A Certification Kit

Additionally, the SCADE ARINC 661 Server and associated source code license enables users to port their server implementation onto the embedded target.

The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions also benefit from the numerous tool-chain integration modules already available for SCADE Suite and SCADE Display.

Partnership to cover India

Mistral and Esterel Technologies Announce Partnership to Expand SCADE® Deployment in India

Mistral Solutions and Esterel Technologies have announced a partnership to expand deployment of SCADE Suite® and SCADE Display® to critical embedded control application developers and critical embedded display application developers, respectively.

Mistral will offer this family of products in the Indian market to address mission and safety-critical software development needs in aerospace and defense, rail transportation, nuclear instrumentation and control, industrial, and medical applications. These environments often require qualification or certification under standards such as DO-178B up to Level A (aerospace and defense), EN 50128 SIL 3/4 (rail transportation), IEC 61508 SIL 3 (industrial), and IEC 60880 (nuclear instrumentation and control).

• SCADE Suite®, a formal model-based development environment for critical embedded applications provides formal state machine and data flow semantics for design entry as well as model-based verification. SCADE Suite has been qualified under DO-178B Level A and certified under EN 50128 to SIL 3/4 for Rail Applications and SIL 3 under IEC 61508 for Industrial Applications.
  
  
• SCADE Display®, an embedded graphics development environment dedicated to safety-critical display systems, intrinsically supports OpenGL-SC, the safety-critical variant of Open GL. SCADE Display KCG™ has been qualified under DO-178B, up to Level A for the Military and Aerospace industries.

“Mistral is happy to be partnering with Esterel Technologies in addressing the needs of developers in the critical embedded software applications space. The alliance adds to our embedded product suite, and gives our customers a wider array of cutting-edge technology solutions that adhere to tough quality standards”, said Mujahid Alam, Vice President – Sales.

“Mistral’s core values, products, and experience align very well with Esterel Technologies and the SCADE family product offering. In addition, Mistral’s firm understanding of the Indian critical embedded software industry, the needs of its clients, and strong technical pedigree will be instrumental in the deploying SCADE successfully throughout the market”, commented Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.