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Altera Corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California, develops programmable solutions enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. The Altera product portfolio includes the industry’s most advanced FPGA, CPLD, and structured ASIC technologies; versatile embedded processors; intellectual property cores; a fully integrated software development tool; and off-the-shelf development kits. Learn more at www.altera.com.

The Powertrain Systems Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) is a state-of-the-art flexible and reusable simulation package, developed by Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with Ford, GM, and DaimlerChrysler and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). PSAT is currently used in more than 60 companies and universities and has more than 200 users.

dSPACE is the world’s leading producer of engineering tools for developing electronic control units (ECUs) and mechatronic controls. Founded 20 years ago, dSPACE now has more than 800 employees worldwide. Using dSPACE systems, manufacturers of controllers and ECUs dramatically reduce their development times and costs, and noticeably increase their productivity.

Elektrobit is a premier provider of embedded software solutions to the Automotive industry. The company has extensive product offerings in the areas of OSEK, AUTOSAR, FlexRay, HMI, Infotainment, and Navigation. In addition, Elektrobit has positioned itself as a Systems Integrator providing services to key Automotive OEMs around the world. Learn more at www.elektrobit.com.

Emmeskay offers state-of-the-art technology products and services for Mobility Applications mainly in the areas of Computer Aided Control System Development (CACSD), Systems Engineering and Model Based Systems Development (MBSD). We work closely with customers to achieve successful deployment and efficient utilization of productivity-enhancing Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) methods and tools. We offer consulting solutions that cover the entire gamut of the CACSD and MBSD processes as well as tools, technologies and computational models that enhance productivity and quality.

ETAS is a reliable and responsible partner to the automotive industry and provides its customers with comprehensive and integrated tools and tool solutions for development and service of automotive ECUs. As a premium tool supplier, ETAS consistently delivers on innovation, price-performance ratio, and quality across all phases of ECU development and service. www.etas.com

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2007 sales of $5.7 billion (USD). www.freescale.com.

Gamma Technologies Inc. (GTI) is the leading software developer in the area of engine, vehicle and powertrain simulation. The company develops the CAE simulation platform GT-SUITE. Its engine modeling library, GT-POWER, is the industry standard engine simulation tool. The full GT-SUITE extends the simulation capability to include cooling, fuel injection, cranktrain, valvetrain, and lubrication systems.

Mechanical Simulation Corporation develops and distributes advanced software to simulate vehicle dynamic performance under a wide variety of conditions. CarSim, BikeSim and TruckSim are complete car, motorcycle, and truck simulation packages that are used worldwide by more than 60 OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers and 130 universities and government research groups.  Visit www.carsim.com for more information.

MotoTron Corporation enables mechatronic systems development and integration. Our tools and processes simplify and reduce the development cost of electronic controls for the automotive, marine, industrial, recreational, power generation and aviation industries. Visit www.mototron.com for more information.

SimuQuest provides tools and services that leverage the MathWorks™ platform to optimize the Model-Based Development of embedded systems. Customers have been able to eliminate hand-coding through the use of SimuQuest’s UniPhi and QuantiPhi tools, resulting in improved product quality and up to 80% savings in productivity and cost.

VaST Systems drives electronics virtualization. VaST fundamentally changes the electronics industry by breaking the dependency on hardware prototypes. With VaST electronics, companies develop virtual system prototypes—timing-accurate, high-speed simulation models of their electronic systems—for use in design and supply chain enablement. Using virtualization, customers develop software before hardware, enable early software development by ecosystem partners, and cut time-to-market by 8 months or more. VaST’s customers include worldwide leaders in automotive, consumer, and wireless markets.

Vector Informatik provides OEMs and suppliers of automotive and related industries a professional and open development platform of tools, software components and services for creating embedded systems. Vector Consulting Services supports clients in optimizing technical product development. Application Areas of Vector: Development of Distributed Systems, ECU-Test, ECU-Software, ECU-Calibration, Vehicle Diagnostics, Process Management. www.vector-informatik.com