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COMES (26971)

The goal of the CoMES project is the definition of a CoDesign Methodology for developing Embedded Systems from the improvement and updating of MCSE as a background methodology, the knowledge of application domains in which the CoMES methodology is going to be applied and the identification of existing and non existing tools and languages supporting the CoMES approach.

Mastering industrial applications according to current and future constraints including the increase in complexity and integration, needs today to build the development of embedded systems on three major pillars: the knowledge of the application domain which is the competence of companies providing solutions and products in the specific domain; the use of an appropriate system design and Hw/Sw CoDesign methodology to improve the quality of Hw/Sw systems and to reduce development cost and time; the use of appropriate tools to manage the projects, to capture the descriptions of solutions at various levels of abstraction, to verify these solutions, to produce the hardware and the software as automatically as possible, to validate the systems in their environments.

Our approach consists in experimenting and enhancing the MCSE methodology. We also concurrently evaluate existing commercial tools as potential ESDA supports for the design process and the emerging technology.

The main result of this project will be the CoMES methodology. Secondary results will be:

• A complete, well-defined and formalised design flow covering the development of embedded systems from requirements capture to the product implementation, applied on two application domains.
• The classification of the set of appropriate commercial tools and languages currently available to support totally or partially the design flow covered by the CoMES methodology.
• The identification of still needed tools and languages to completely support the CoMES methodology, including the analysis of the suitability of prototype tools currently under development by IRESTE and SIDSA that could cover some of the detected holes.
• The specification of a next phase of the project will be prepared, based on the dissemination of the CoMES methodology through the European Embedded Systems industrial community carried out during the project.

To reach our goal and work concurrently on applications, design methodology and tools, the consortium includes:

• 2 companies working in two different application domains to specify the needs, the constraints and the practice, and to demonstrate the MCSE methodology on two case studies:
• Matra Bae Dynamics, Velizy, France;
• The space division of INDRA, Barcelona, Spain with University of Cantabria as a subcontractor;
• One company as a design centre and ESDA technology provider: SIDSA, Madrid.
• One research team from IRESTE, University of Nantes, France as MCSE methodology and technology provider.

Start date: July 1998
End date: January 2000

Project Coordinator:

Bernard Foucault
Matra Bae Dynamics (France)
Rue Grange-Dame-Rose 20-22, BP 150
78141 Vélizy-Villacoublay
France
Tel: 0033-1 34881808
Fax: 0033-1 34882119
Email: bfoucaul@matra-def.fr

Partners:

Matra Bae Dynamics (France)
INDRA Espacio (Spain)
Sidsa (Spain)
Université de Nantes (IRESTE) (France)