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AbsInt

AbsInt provides advanced development tools for embedded sys­tems, and tools for validation, veri­fication and certification of safety-critical software.

Background and mission

The embedded market of today is characterized by constantly rising soft­ware complexity and increasingly shorter time-to-market. The share of safety-critical applications is rising.

AbsInt’s tools are designed to

  • Enhance software safety
  • Speed up time-to-market
  • Lower testing and validation costs
  • Improve software efficiency to reduce system costs for embedded, real-time, safety-critical applications

Our tools are based on a generic and generative framework which allows an extremely quick, sound and flexible response to customer needs. This has been more than proven in a series of successful projects and by outstand­ing customer satisfaction.

Analysis and verification tools

Software testing accounts for a major part of development costs. This is especially true for real-time systems, where correctness depends not just on logical correctness, but also on the timeliness of the results. Timing properties are hard to establish; measuring and time-stopping methods are error-prone and time-consuming.

Static program analyses provide means to reduce testing and validation costs. The underlying theory of abstract interpretation en­ables the system­atic derivation of provably correct analyses. The analyses are performed at compile time and provide results that hold for any program execution and any possible input scenario.

Location: Saarbruecken