JEOPARD

Java Environment for Parallel Realtime Development

JEOPARD is a 30-month project of European companies and research institutes that is partially funded by the European Commission (Project Number 216682)

aicas and The Open Group have partnered with a consortium of leading European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers and research organizations to develop a new framework for Java-based real-time applications on modern parallel processor systems. Supported by the European Commission, the Java Environment for Parallel Real-time Development (JEOPARD) project is investing over €3.3 million (US$4.9 million) in an advanced framework for real-time Java running on multicore and parallel systems. This platform-independent framework will maintain the robust reliability essential for safety and mission critical applications, while using the additional processing power available from the latest parallel platforms.

Led by The Open Group, the JEOPARD consortium includes four universities and research institutes: University of York, Vienna University of Technology, FZI and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca; three industrial manufacturers: EADS, RadioLabs and SkySoft; and two embedded systems technology suppliers: aicas and Sysgo. The technology research is being directed by aicas to ensure project results meet the highest industry level standards for reliability and real-time performance.

The strategic objective of the JEOPARD project is to provide the tools for platform-independent development of predictable systems that make use of SMP multicore platforms. These tools will enhance software productivity and reusability by extending processor technology already established on desktop systems for the specific needs of multicore embedded systems. The project will actively contribute to standards required for the development of portable software in this domain, such as the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ).

In addition, the JEOPARD project will develop a platform-independent software development interface for realtime multicore systems. The interface will be based on existing technologies, including the Real-Time Specification for Java (JSR 1 and JSR 282) and Safety-Critical Java (JSR 302). These technologies currently provide a strong foundation for the development of complex and highly reliable real-time systems, but they do not yet provide support for multicore systems. Even more challenging, some of the technologies can not address more than one processor at a time, making it impossible to develop applications that scale with the number of processors available on current and future multicore systems.

URL: www.jeopard.org

SuReal

SuReal is a medium term research and development project, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education. Companies, universities, and other research organizations from five German States participate in the project. Its goal is to improve the safety of embedded systems commonly used in automobiles, airplanes, mobile phones, and domestic appliances.

Currently, the handling of safety critical issues during the development of embedded systems is dominated largely by in house and ad hoc approaches and applications. In the course of the SuReal project, an integrated development process will be developed, which can be formally verified and takes safety critical issues into account. For this purpose, SuReal takes up common industrial modeling and technical solutions and integrates them with formal description and analysis techniques into a complementary development methodology.

A framework will be created tailored to industrial developers to make complex analysis methods and tools available, without requiring them to completely change their development process or assemble together complex tools. Ultimately, it will enable small and medium sized software companies to support the application of formal methods and to market tools and products based on them.

URL: http://www.sureal-projekt.org/

HIJA

High Integrity Java

HIJA is a 27-month project of european companies and research institutes that is partially funded by the European Commission

The objective of HIJA is to define and implement a new High-Integrity Java for future networked real-time embedded systems. Higher demands will be made on these systems and greater reliance will be placed on the delivery of their services. In effect they will become high-integrity systems, where failure can cause loss of life, environmental harm, or significant financial loss. As embedded systems pervade society, their design, maintenance, and certification will require highly flexible, hardware independent technology to ensure cost effectiveness.

The strategic objective of the HIJA project is to advance real-time systems implementation technologies to support the development of Architecturally Neutral, high-integrity Real-Time Systems (ANRTS). The current trend towards system design approaches based on modelling could make ANRTS format a key intermediate representation in the transformation process. The main technical objective of HIJA is to demonstrate that Java technology can form an appropriate Architecturally Neutral, high-integrity Real-Time System.

Project partners in the HIJA project are leading European technology providers in the realtime domain: The Open Group, aicas, University of York, FZI, Thales-Avionics, Bellstream, Trialog, Aonix, Universität Karlsruhe, Fiat Research Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Telecom Italia.

URL: www.hija.info

HIDOORS

High Integrity Distributed Object-Oriented Realtime Systems

HIDOORS is a 30-month project of european companies and research institutes that is partially funded by the European Commission (IST 2001-32329)

URL: www.hidoors.org

AERO

Architecture for Enhanced Reprogrammability and Operability

AERO is a project with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a software development infrastructure for satellite applications. The Aero project is developed by a consortium lead by Astrium SaS including Astrium Toulouse, Aicas and the University of Linkoping.

aicas provides its experience in realtime Java technology, the University of Linkoping provides static memory management technology and Astrium provides its experience in the space domain as the leader in the satellites market in Europe

URL: www.aero-project.org