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, 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 some 700 people, and its net sales in 2022 were 155.3 MEUR.

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.

BlackBerry QNX® is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, frameworks and development tools, and provides expert support and services for building the world’s most critical embedded systems. The company’s technology is trusted in more than 215 million vehicles and is deployed in embedded systems around the world, across a range of industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, transportation, heavy machinery and robotics. Founded in 1980, BlackBerry QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and was acquired by BlackBerry in 2010.

With more than 1000 skilled IT strategists, consultants, data scientists, cloud specialists, and excellent software architects, Cloudflight is one of the leading full-service providers in the area of industrial digital transformation with extensive expertise. From cloud native to embedded software to AI solutions and eCommerce, our interdisciplinary teams will find, develop and implement the perfect digital solution for you. Cloudflight is a strategic thought leader with high industry expertise and a hand-selected talent-pool of people that make a difference.

Crank AMETEKⓇ is a global innovator in embedded GUI solutions that accelerate the design and development of modern UX for tomorrow's embedded devices. Through the Storyboard GUI development framework, Crank drives innovation and faster time to market for brands wanting to deliver sophisticated customer experiences and unmatched performance. With decades of domain expertise, brands such as Coca-Cola, John Deere, and Vorwerk rely on Crank to bridge the gap between UX vision and customer expectations. To learn more, visit cranksoftware.com.

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.

The professional electronics magazine ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS has been the partner of the industry for more than 55 years, providing all sectors of the electronics development industry with technical information. The topic Embedded Software Engineering with its extensive readership has been a constant focus of their professional magazines, newsletters and websites.

Embedded Office was founded in 2003 in Germany with a focus on functional safety and industrial security consulting. The engineers are certified experts in embedded software development for safety-critical systems. The unique Safety Mentoring service guarantees the success of software approvals for use in products according to IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, EN 50128, or DO-178C. Provided software components like the "Flexible Safety RTOS" and complete platform integrations are completing the service to minimize efforts for new projects in the safety and security domain.

Embedded Wizard is TARA Systems' award-winning solution for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded systems, with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of industries. Our goal is to make the daily work of software engineers easier by providing the most convenient and efficient tool for embedded GUI development. We provide a versatile and scalable framework that can be used to create complex, lean and fast UIs. In addition, our GUI Services team offers a range of professional services related to Embedded Wizard, from training up to comprehensive GUI development.

With an innovative test device, embeff supports customers who develop software for microcontrollers. The ExecutionPlatform tests hardware-dependent software without an expensive test bench and without laboratory equipment. With open-loop tests, developers already work on real hardware at the beginning of the project.

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 2024.

Founded in 1963, the Helbling Group employs more than 600 people in Switzerland, Germany, the USA and China. As one of the leading development service providers in the German-speaking region, we develop innovative solutions for our customers from numerous different industries. These include home and office appliance, medical devices, automation loT, automotive, power electronics and many more. We inspire our customers with joy in technology, creativity and commitment.

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. We also design complete mechanical and mechatronic solutions. Thanks to our expertise in risk management and cybersecurity, we enable fast market approvals and maximum security.

ISCUE is an acknowledged service provider for high-quality embedded software development with a focus on projects with safety and security requirements. The company was founded in Nuremberg in 2006 and currently has 40 employees. One of the key strenghts is an intelligent, proactive approach in development projects. Numerous well-known companies are amongst ISCUE’S clients, most of them from the automotive industry.

iSyst Intelligente Systeme - As an independent test house, our specialty is testing the function and quality of embedded systems, thereby ensuring their functional reliability during the development process. With us, you receive all measures for safeguarding your products from a single source, whether automotive, medical or any other industry. Our approach is progressive and future oriented. Therefore, we are already developing testing solutions for tomorrow's issues in cooperation with experienced partners from the fields of science and technology. Testing is our passion!

The KDAB Group is a globally recognized provider for software consulting, development and training, specializing in embedded devices and complex cross-platform desktop applications. In addition to being leading experts in Qt, C++ and 3D technologies for over two decades, KDAB provides deep expertise across the stack, including Linux, Rust and modern UI frameworks. With 100+ employees from 20 countries and offices in Sweden, Germany, USA, France and UK, we serve clients around the world.

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.

MATHEMA Engineering, the engineering brand of MATHEMA GmbH, is characterized by a high level of expertise in the field of hardware-related solutions. The in-house joint venture combines knowledge from the areas of embedded and data & AI and offers comprehensive consulting and precise coordination of software and hardware. Further areas of expertise are automation, test automation, CI/CD, artificial intelligenz & consulting. With an integrated hardware and software approach, MATHEMA Engineering guarantees a holistic and successful implementation of your projects.

Mathworks - World's leading developer and provider of MATLAB, Simulink, and Polyspace: Polyspace static code analysis products use 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 additional error classes increase code quality. We are well known for MATLAB® and Simulink®. They enable development and system design for embedded systems for a wide variety 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.

INTEGRATING THE DRIVER’S EXPERIENCE - OpenSynergy provides the leading Bluetooth® stack Blue SDK, certified and deployed in more than 1 billion devices and 300 million cars globally. It is the reference Bluetooth® implementation for many OEMs around the world and has been integrated with hundreds of different Bluetooth radio modules giving great flexibility of hardware choice. OpenSynergy also offers the Radio Tuner SDK, a software designed radio module SDK that eases the integration in automotive systems and allows great portability and flexibility supporting all global radio standards.

Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver quality software with its market-proven, integrated suite of automated software testing tools. Supporting the embedded, enterprise, and IoT markets, Parasoft's technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to web UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. 

Perforce static analysis tools power innovation at an unrivaled scale. For over 30 years, our tools have been trusted globally by industry leaders in tightly regulated, safety-critical embedded software industries for driving quality, security, compliance, and speed — across the technology lifecycle. For every embedded software development team, Perforce static analysis tools can help reduce development costs and accelerate your time to market.

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.

Qt Quality Assurance offers a comprehensive set of software quality management tools for cross-platform (e.g. Windows, Java, 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 some 700 people, and its net sales in 2022 were 155.3 MEUR.

QT Quality Assurance is Gold Sponsor of ESE Kongress 2024.

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.

Rohde & Schwarz is a globally operating, family-owned technology group with over 14,000 employees and a revenue of 2.78 billion euros. The company develops, produces, and distributes high-quality electronic capital goods, contributing to a safer and more connected world. Its business sectors include test and measurement, networks and cybersecurity, broadcast and media technology, as well as aerospace, defense, and security. Additionally, the company invests in future technologies such as AI, IIoT, 6G, cloud, and quantum technology.

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.

Systemtechnik Leber is a leading supplier of solutions in the field of drive technology, digital electronics, fieldbus and communication technology, power electronics, power supplies and power controllers. We develop concepts as well as electronics, hardware and software for well-known manufacturers from medical technology, aviation, automation technology as well as the automotive and consumer electronics industry and provide support in all phases of product development - from prototype construction to series production.

TASKING is a leading provider of development tools headquartered in Munich, Germany, offering high-performance, high quality, safety & security-oriented embedded software development tools for multi-core architectures. TASKING's development tools are used by automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as well as in adjacent markets around the world to realize high-performance applications in safety-critical areas. The TASKING Embedded Software Development solutions provide an industry-leading ecosystem for your entire software development process.

Tuxera develops quality-assured embedded data management and networking software, including high-performance and reliable file systems, flash management, and networking stacks. Our software meets the strictest reliability, endurance, performance, and security requirements for today’s embedded systems. Tuxera’s solutions are precision-engineered to capture, manage, transfer, and preserve the integrity of data generated by connected devices and sensors.

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Verifysoft specializes in the development, sales and support of world-class software testing and analysis tools. Testwell CTC++ is the leading code coverage analyzer for embedded software. CodeSonar is a static code analysis tool designed specifically for testing embedded software. In addition to bug detection, CodeSonar checks programming guidelines. Imagix 4D supports the understanding and documentation of third-party and legacy source code. Codee is a new static analysis tool to enhance performance of software.

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.