SYSGO’s PikeOS receives the Special Jury Award at the first French-German Embedded Symposium

Paris, Mainz, July 16, 2008
PikeOS, the safe and secure virtualization platform of SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications, has been awarded during the First French-German Symposium on June 26, 2008 in Paris.

The first French-German Embedded Symposium has been initiated by the French association of software and computing services companies, Syntec Informatique, and its German equivalent, Bitkom. It was part of the French-German ICT year and brought together embedded market players, including software vendors, service companies, large industrial companies, large research laboratories and institutions, and high-level governmental representatives). The goal of the symposium was to address the many competitive challenges that the European Embedded Systems industry is facing.

More than 400 people attended the event, where three major market studies and analyses have been presented for the first time. Three round tables allowed discussions about the main challenges faced by all actors involved with embedded systems. Business meetings took place throughout the day to make this event a real opportunity both to better understand the industry’s situation and to find ways to maintain French and German companies’ leadership in the European market.

Companies were invited to compete within five different contest areas, four of which applicative, and one aiming at generic technology and solutions. This last contest, the Special Jury Award, was given to the most innovative solution that addresses common future challenges of the embedded markets as identified and debated by the experts during the Symposium. Other awards included the Critical Embedded Trophy, the Consumers Embedded Trophy, the Sensor Embedded Trophy, and the Goods and People Security Trophy.

“The idea of presenting a Special Jury Award came up after we received all the submissions,” said Jean-Luc Dormoy, in charge of Programme Strategy at CEA DRT, and President of the Jury. “We realized that there was a missing category and PikeOS from SYSGO applied perfectly to it: we need today to have field-proven but still innovative solutions crossing different vertical markets, while helping in solving some of the most important challenges of the embedded field like supporting safety and security, and providing a technological bridge between legacy applications, new applications, and future applications whose platforms are not yet known.”

PikeOS is a cutting-edge product providing an embedded systems platform where multiple virtual machines can run simultaneously in a secure environment. This secure virtualization technology allows multiple operating system APIs to run independently and concurrently on one machine - for example an ARINC-653 application together with Linux. The PikeOS safe and secure virtualization RTOS platform provides the widest range of operational guest operating system or run-time environment “personalities” on the market, and is readily extensible to incorporate additional new personalities as the embedded marketplace evolves.

The PikeOS microkernel architecture allows it to be used in cost sensitive, resource constrained devices as well as large, complex systems. PikeOS is certifiable to the DO-178B standard, and is also MILS compliant.

“We are happy and proud of this award,” declared Jacques Brygier, VP Marketing at SYSGO. ”We see it as the best recognition of our work as we have been selected by a group of experts among the most knowledgeable of the embedded and real-time domains. This gives us another reason to believe in the validity of our technological choices, as a growing number of PikeOS customers can already testify.”

About the First French-German Embedded Symposium

The one-day conference essentially dealt with: the impact of the Embedded Systems sector and its crucial contribution to the overall industry competitiveness via innovation (new products and services), performance (capacity to vastly improve existing products and services, “green revolution”) and business efficiency (controlling costs, marketing, and reactivity to evolving market conditions). Europe is currently the world leader in Embedded Systems, drawing upon a pool of qualified engineers and researchers as well as due to the presence of world-leading industrial companies that design, manufacture and use embedded software. The Symposium seeks to identify and facilitate additional synergies within the industry.

The Symposium was organized by Syntec Informatique, BITKOM, French Ministry of Finance, CAP’TRONIC, DRIRE Ile-de-France, and CG2E.

For more information, please go to www.embedded-symposium.eu.