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Keynote Talk: Embedded Software - Technologies and Trends
Thursday December 3, 2009, 8:45 - 9:30 | Room: Auditorium
By Bernard Candaele, Deputy Director Embedded Systems TBU
Thales

Our societal demands for Health, more Security, new Energy and Environment and the market demands in mobility, communications and entertainments products are enabled by embedded systems. The talk will introduce the key challenges for embedded software like real time, security, safety, reliability, swap and heterogeneity. Thales effort in the domain is focused model-driven development, component based approach, middleware, high-performance embedded computing platforms, multi-core programming, design and verification of critical software. Some recommendations and prospectives for the future complete the picture.

Biography:

Bernard Candaele is the Deputy Director of the Embedded Systems Technical Business Unit at Thales. After a first experience at Intel, Chandler and at Cimatel, Paris (Common design center for Intel/Matra-Harris) as microprocessor IC designer and project leader for automotive and telecom micro-controllers, he has been with Thomson-Csf since 88. He has been program leader for Thomson ASICs and then had several managing and technical responsibilities inside the company. He has competencies in SoC projects for telecom, multimedia and security related products, in developing new digital processing architectures and platforms, in managing EDA solutions for embedded electronics development, and in R&D activities in co-operation within European and National programs. Bernard Candaele is a Steering Board Member of Thales Hardware R&D domain, a Thales senior expert, an IEEE member and he is author or co-author of more than 50 papers.