Crafters ARTEMIS project

Mondragon Unibertsitatea is participating in the Crafters (ConstRaint and Application driven Framework for Tailoring Embedded Real-time Systems) project.

Crafters is a project of the call 2011 of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking on embedded systems that aims to tackle the research and structural challenges faced by European industry by defining and implementing a coherent Research Agenda for Embedded Computing Systems. The ARTEMIS JU manages and co-ordinates research activities through open calls for proposals. The programme is open to organisations in European Union Member States and Associated Countries. Selected projects are co-financed by the Joint Undertaking and the Member States that have joined ARTEMIS.

The consortium of the project is formed by 26 partners including research centers, universities and companies. The consortium of the project is from 10 European countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. The last meeting of the consortium was held in the Bilbao in October 16th and 17th.

The project is researching in the topic of Multi and many core systems. Multi and Many-core architectures allow reaching enhanced performances without the increase of power consumption, that’s why this kind of architecture is having an increasing development in the last years and likely will continue in the next years. Crafters aims to significantly reduce total cost of ownership, time-to-market and the number of development assets by introducing a holistically designed ecosystem through a tightly integrated multi-vendor solution and tool chain that complements existing standards. Feature-limited releases of reference tools will be released and platforms will become available to support the evaluation and adoptions of the results.

In multi-core systems, due to their characteristics, to determine and define the proper tools and algorithms for early estimation of quality attributes (such as chedulability, performance, energy consumption, etc.) and multi-criteria simulation is especially important. Mondragon Unibertsitatea is working in the variability management and testing during V&V of multi-core systems.