CEA is the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, http://www.cea.fr). It is a public body established in October 1945. The CEA is active in three main fields: Energy, information and health technologies, and defense and national security. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. CEA has a workforce of around 15000 employees.
Within CEA Technological Research Division, institutes lead research in order to increase the industrial competitiveness through technological innovation and transfers:
The CEA-LIST, Laboratory of applied research on software-intensive technologies, which is based near Paris at Saclay and Fontenay-aux-Roses, is a key software systems and technology research center working in three areas with vital societal and economic implications:
- Embedded systems (architecture and design of systems, methods and facilities for software and system dependability, and intelligent vision systems);
- Interactive systems (knowledge engineering, robotics, virtual reality and sensorial interfaces);
- Signal detection and processing.
With the strong project-centered culture of its 450 researchers, engineers and technicians, the LIST is able to perform research work in partnership with the major industrial players in the nuclear, automotive, aeronautical, defense and medical fields and thus investigate and develop innovative solutions corresponding to their requirements.
The LIST, which is actively engaged in research work extending from conceptual design of systems to pre-industrial prototypes, contributes to the transfer of technology and encourages innovation, particularly by assisting the emergence of new businesses and startups.
LIST teams have worked as partners with numerous university laboratories, engineering schools and other research establishments on collaborative research projects.
The CEA LETI is the Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology of CEA. Created in 1967 in Grenoble, LETI is one of the leading research institutes in Europe. Its mission is to develop innovative solutions which leads to industrial transfers or start-up creation and, meanwhile, to explore prospective fields in collaboration with academia. LETI’s activities cover Silicon technology, microsystem technology, optical components, multimedia, transmission and telecommunication systems, design, and micro technologies for health and biology.
The Design Architectures & Embedded Software Division (DACLE division), common to CEA-LETI and CEA-LIST, gathers more than 200 people focusing on digital and SoC, design for image, RF, design environment and embedded software. The Embedded Computing Laboratory (LCE), part of DACLE, provides expertise in advanced computing architecture for embedded applications and highly integrated system design, highly integrated / massively parallel processors, reconfigurable computing, computing systems for vision applications and computing architecture for future technologies.
In the HiPEAC3 Network of Excellence, CEA LCE will be in charge of the roadmap activity. With its collaboration with industries, startups and academia, together with its wide internal activities including future technologies silicon or non silicon based, CEA is ideally placed to collect trends and coordinate the activities related to future trends and roadmap in the domain of High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilers.