Embedded Software Engineering Kongress - Background

Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, enabling technology innovation and differentiation for over 40 years. Green Hills Software provides safe, reliable, secure, and scalable software platforms for the automotive, avionics, defense, industrial, medical, mobile device, networking, smart energy, and railway industries. The platforms support a wide range of microprocessors and microcontrollers, provide the highest levels of software integration, and can comprise real-time operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, the integrated development environment with C/C++ compiler, debugger, code analysis and performance tools, and hardware probes allowing customers to unify their development environment across large development teams. Green Hills Software’s expertise and services have helped many customers achieve industry certifications to the highest levels of safety and security. Green Hills Software is the first embedded software company to have received compliance certification against the ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity standard.

Qt Quality Assurance offers a comprehensive set of software quality management tools for cross-platform (e.g. Windows, Java, Qt, Android, iOS and Mac) and multi-language (e.g. C, C++, SystemC, C#) software development. From automated GUI testing (Squish), code coverage analysis (Coco), test result management (Test Center) to Axivion Static Code Analysis and Axivion Architecture Verification – all integrate seamlessly into existing development environments. Following industry-leading safety and security standards and coding guidelines, such as MISRA, AUTOSAR, ISO  26262, and CWE, our tools are ideal for developing safety-critical software. Qt Quality Assurance is part of the Qt Group, a global software company trusted by industry leaders and over 1.5 million developers worldwide to create applications and smart devices that users love. We help our customers to increase productivity through the entire product development lifecycle; from UI design and software development to quality management and deployment. Our customers are in more than 70 different industries in over 180 countries. Qt Group employs over 700 people globally.

QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe & secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support / services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. With a focus on reducing hardware dependency and increasing efficiency, QNX empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities in areas like high-performance computing at the edge, standards-based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems across industries.

bbv Software Services is a leading Swiss software and consulting company. ‘Making Visions Work’ is our motivation - and has been since 1995. From product vision to customised software solutions and the development of digital business models: as a full-service provider, we help our customers to make and implement the right decisions in a complex IT world - towards more digital business, unique digital experiences and innovative software products.

BURGER Engineering is a leading provider of solutions in the fields of drive control, fieldbus and communication technology, power electronics, power supplies and power controllers. We develop concepts as well as electronics, hardware and software for well-known customers and provide support in all phases of product development - from prototype development to series production, including certification. Developments in a regulated environment are our specialty. BURGER Engineering covers the entire safety life cycle in product development, from the concept idea to certification. 

Cloudflight is a leading provider of business-critical software and digital solutions in Europe. With over 800 experts and 20 years of experience, Cloudflight supports customers in driving their digital transformation. Its expertise includes custom software development, scalable cloud solutions, eCommerce, as well as AI and data management. Acting as a sparring partner, Cloudflight develops innovative projects that propel the business success of its clients.

Successful companies must constantly adapt their software systems: Only those who implement new requirements quickly and cost-effectively remain competitive. Since changes made under high pressure lead to a creeping decline in the quality of the software, unnecessarily high maintenance costs are incurred and, in extreme cases, lead to a standstill in further development. CQSE GmbH develops the Software Intelligence platform Teamscale. Teamscale accompanies software development and offers the possibility to continuously make the quality of a system visible. It combines the requirements of project managers, developers, testers and quality engineers and enables long-term and successful quality controlling.
In addition to tooling, CQSE's portfolio includes services for assessing the quality of software systems and ensuring their long-term maintainability.

Danube Dynamics is a leading electronics and software company headquartered in Linz, Austria. Our team of 20 experts specializes in the development of high-quality embedded systems with integrated AI functions for more than 30 industrial customers in Europe. With our industry experience in areas such as mechanical engineering, logistics, forestry and agriculture, energy management and access systems, we offer innovative, future-proof solutions that ensure the long-term success of our customers. Innovation and quality are our core values.

For nearly 60 years, the trade magazine ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS has been the leading source of information and trendsetter for the electronics industry in the German-speaking region. Their portfolio comprises 22 print editions, several industry-specific and dedicated websites, numerous target group specific newsletters, conferences, and seminar series – including the Embedded Software Engineering Kongress. Key topics include hardware and software development, component procurement, electronics manufacturing, and electronics management.

The ExecutionPlatform from embeff is the modern tool for your embedded projects. Test firmware early and 100% automated - without an expensive HiL test bench or laboratory equipment. Work directly on the real microcontroller and carry out unit, integration and system tests during development - right from the start of the project. Visit our stand and find out why the ExecutionPlatform is the indispensable tool for demanding embedded teams.

As a global leader in the fields of embedded systems and edge computing, eSOL has built up a strong track record in software development for automotive, mobility, industrial, medical, consumer electronics and other embedded systems. This year marks the 50th anniversary of eSOL. The company offers Full Stack Engineering, combining software products, technologies and engineering services based on its eMCOS scalable real-time OS developed using eSOL’s unique and patented multikernel technology. These solutions extend from the OS, platforms, and application layers to toolchains and processes.

GLIWA is the world’s tech-leader in the area of resource analysis for embedded software. The analysis suite T1 provides 1st class analysis for developing, visualizing, optimizing and verifying the timing, the stack consumption and the memory consumption. T1 has been used in thousands of automotive mass-production projects and has become the de-facto standard in this domain. T1 does not require any additional hardware or stopping the execution of a running system. T1 works on the developer’s desk, at the test-bench and in the real environment, for example the car. It can even be present in the final production version of the software – supervising the software at run-time. ISO 26262 ASIL-D certified versions of T1 are available.

Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, enabling technology innovation and differentiation for over 40 years. Green Hills Software provides safe, reliable, secure, and scalable software platforms for the automotive, avionics, defense, industrial, medical, mobile device, networking, smart energy, and railway industries. The platforms support a wide range of microprocessors and microcontrollers, provide the highest levels of software integration, and can comprise real-time operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, the integrated development environment with C/C++ compiler, debugger, code analysis and performance tools, and hardware probes allowing customers to unify their development environment across large development teams. Green Hills Software’s expertise and services have helped many customers achieve industry certifications to the highest levels of safety and security. Green Hills Software is the first embedded software company to have received compliance certification against the ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity standard.

Green Hills Software is Gold Sponsor of ESE Kongress 2025.

Hitex was founded in 1976 and is one of the leading providers of tools & services for complex embedded designs. The range of solutions for the key topics of software quality and functional safety covers the entire development process. With development and test tools as well as safety components, Hitex helps to make software more powerful and safer and to shorten development time. In addition, the company supports with services such as consulting, training, test services or certification support.

The infoteam Software Group has been implementing specific software solutions for industry, infrastructure, life science and public service markets for more than 40 years. The core business is the development of solutions in the field of automated controls, embedded systems and application software. infoteam employs more than 300 people in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Greece. Headquartered in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg, infoteam has been named one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Bavaria and is one of the 100 most innovative companies in Germany.

As a holistic solution provider, invenio develops intelligent products on behalf of customers – from the initial idea to the production-ready prototype. We support the entire development process across all industries with expertise in requirements management, model-based systems engineering, electronics design, software development, embedded systems as well as process and method definition. In addition, we also design complete mechanical and mechatronic solutions. Our solid capabilities in risk management and cybersecurity enable rapid market approvals and the highest level of security.

Lauterbach is the leading manufacturer of cutting-edge development tools for embedded systems with more than 45 years of experience. It serves customers all over the world, partners with all semiconductor suppliers and grows steadily. At the headquarters near Munich, the engineering team develops and produces highly proficient and specialized, easy-to-use Development Tools under the brand TRACE32®. Branch offices in UK, Italy, France, Tunisia, US, Japan and China and highly qualified sales as well as support engineers in many other countries make Lauterbach’s product range available worldwide.

MathWorks – The world’s leading developer and provider of MATLAB, Simulink, and Polyspace: Polyspace enables both static code analysis and dynamic testing. Dynamic testing supports unit tests on host or target, code coverage, and automated test generation. Static code analysis uses formal methods to prove the absence of critical runtime errors under all possible control and data flows. Checkers for coding rules (MISRA-C/C++, CERT-C, ...), security vulnerabilities (CWE), code metrics, and hundreds of error classes. MATLAB® & Simulink® enable development and system design for embedded systems across a wide range of advanced products.

MicroConsult is your partner for embedded systems engineering: professional training, project support and consulting. From microcontrollers to system design, benefit from our decades of experience. True to our motto EXPERIENCE EMBEDDED, we provide knowhow transfer tailored to meet your needs and project objectives. MicroConsult, together with ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS, is founder and organizer of the Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (ESE Kongress), one of the most renowned professional events in the embedded industry.

ONEKEY is Europe's leading specialist in product cybersecurity and compliance management. The unique combination of an automated Product Cybersecurity & Compliance Platform (PCCP) with expert knowledge offers continuous and in-depth analysis, support and management to improve product cybersecurity and compliance during the development process. Through consistent shift-left deployment, the automatic and comprehensive analysis information for development teams significantly reduces effort, time and costs – while simultaneously improving product cybersecurity.

oose - the self-organized training and consulting house in Hamburg. For more than 20 years we have been offering excellent seminars, workshops, consulting and project support for Software & Systems Engineering, New Work and Innovation. We accompany changes, introduce new methods, impart knowledge - and empower people to find their own solutions. Whether on-site with our customers, at our oose.campus in Hamburg-Altona or online.

PLS, with its UDE® Universal Debug Engine, has been one of the world's leading providers of software debug, trace and test tools for 32- and 64-bit microcontrollers and embedded processors for over 30 years. PLS is an expert in multicore debugging and tracing as well as the analysis of complex electronic control systems. The focus is on deeply embedded systems, such as those used in automotive and industrial electronics. Developers worldwide rely on PLS's high-quality tools to create safe, reliable, and high-performance embedded software.

PROTOS enables early testing in the project with its test tools for embedded systems. The software developer can perform unit and integration tests for the future device at his desk (e.g. on his Eval board). The miniHIL system with toolchain allows modeling, generation and execution of environment simulations and test case generation. The test automation is done by Continuous Integration. Further more: Mastering of complex software by architectural methods,  development of domain-specific languages/ toolchains, engineering for methods and toolchains.

QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe & secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support / services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. With a focus on reducing hardware dependency and increasing efficiency, QNX empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities in areas like high-performance computing at the edge, standards-based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems across industries.

Qt Quality Assurance offers a comprehensive set of software quality management tools for cross-platform (e.g. Windows, Java, Qt, Android, iOS and Mac) and multi-language (e.g. C, C++, SystemC, C#) software development. From automated GUI testing (Squish), code coverage analysis (Coco), test result management (Test Center) to Axivion Static Code Analysis and Axivion Architecture Verification – all integrate seamlessly into existing development environments. Following industry-leading safety and security standards and coding guidelines, such as MISRA, AUTOSAR, ISO  26262, and CWE, our tools are ideal for developing safety-critical software. Qt Quality Assurance is part of the Qt Group, a global software company trusted by industry leaders and over 1.5 million developers worldwide to create applications and smart devices that users love. We help our customers to increase productivity through the entire product development lifecycle; from UI design and software development to quality management and deployment. Our customers are in more than 70 different industries in over 180 countries. Qt Group employs over 700 people globally.

QT Quality Assurance is Gold Sponsor of ESE Kongress 2025.

Razorcat Development GmbH creates test tools for software development of embedded systems for more than 25 years. The unit and integration test tool TESSY is certified to IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ISO 26262 EN 50128 and it already supports many software projects in all industrial branches in their verification of safety critical and high-quality software. Together with the Integrated Test Environment (ITE), Test Operator Platform (TOP) and Check Case Definition Language (CCDL) tools, Razorcat offers solutions for all stages of the test process. Services like test management, testing, consulting and seminars additionally support customers worldwide.

SEGGER has over thirty years of experience in embedded systems, producing cutting-edge RTOS and software libraries, J-Link debug probes, a line of Flasher in-system programmers, and software development tools. All SEGGER tools are designed by SEGGER for simple usage and are optimized for the requirements imposed by resource-constrained embedded systems. SEGGER supports the entire development and production process with affordable, high-quality, flexible, easy-to-use tools. For additional information, please visit: www.segger.com.

Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces in Rust, C++, Python, or JavaScript for embedded, desktop and mobile applications. Ease of programming, speed, and productivity along with low memory consumption and resource requirements have boosted Slint’s adoption within the developer community. Identified as one of the fastest growing open-source startups in 2022 by Runa Capital, Slint was awarded the prestigious Embedded Award for Tools category at Embedded World 2023. Star us on GitHub https://github.com/slint-ui/slint and visit https://slint.dev to know more.

SodiusWillert has been helping companies meet the challenges of developing complex products and systems for more than 30 years. Our focus is on collaboration across domains and disciplines. We support you with engineering lifecycle tools that we adapt to your processes, workflows, and tool environment as needed and assist you with consulting, coaching, workshops, and training. You benefit from end-to-end engineering with complete traceability and can focus on developing high-quality products.

SSV Software Systems was founded in Hanover in 1981 as a development service provider for microprocessor applications in logistics and automation. Since the early 1990s, the company has been developing and producing its own hardware modules, systems and solutions for industrial applications. The application focus is on industrial M2M and IoT communication as well as the development and practical use of embedded AI solutions.

TASKING is a leading provider of development tools for embedded software in safety-critical applications. Founded in 1977, it offers high-performance compilers and IDEs for industries like automotive, industrial, and aerospace. Through strategic acquisitions, TASKING has expanded its portfolio to include debuggers, tracing, and analysis tools. With a focus on trust, customer orientation, and sustainability, TASKING empowers engineers to develop reliable, high-performance software for a safer future.

Toradex is a global leader in embedded hardware and software, making embedded computing easy. Trusted across healthcare, transportation, robotics, and more, it helps reduce development costs and speed time-to-market. Its Arm®-based System on Modules and Single Board Computers provide flexibility and scalability. Torizon, an open-source Linux platform, simplifies development, updates, and fleet management. Headquartered in Switzerland, Toradex offers global support and long-term product availability. 

Vector has been shaping software and electronics development with innovative products for over 35 years. As a “simplifier,” more than 4,500 employees worldwide simplify technology development for customers, contributing to their success. The portfolio includes future-proof software tools, embedded software, and cloud technologies.

wolfSSL is an embedded, lightweight cryptography library ideal for standard, embedded and RTOS environments primarily because of its size, speed and feature set. wolfSSL supports industry standards up to the current TLS 1.3 & DTLS 1.3, is up to 20 times smaller than OpenSSL, offers a simple API, an OpenSSL compatibility layer, OCSP & CRL support, FIPS 140-3 & RTCA DO-178C certifications, and is backed by the robust wolfCrypt cryptography library. With a response time under 36 hours for vulnerability fixes and 24/7 commercial support, wolfSSL provides the best tested cryptography on the market.