 Creative Electronic SystemsCompany Description:CES was founded in 1981 by a group of engineers working in the physics community, whose interest in life was speed in various forms: car and motorcycle racing, sailing and flying. When they decided to create a company, their aim was to develop a winning product line for the real-time computing market. Racing on a tight budget taught CES the hard way that success was a delicate combination of innovation and quality, and that adding the key elements of modularity and global coherence would produce a successful product line. Due to their professional background, the first products were designed for the physics market. Then back in 1986, CES started to investigate the aerospace test equipment market. After 18 years and continual expansion, CES is able to deliver a complete product range for simulation, validation, test and analysis, which is used in the most important European and North American commercial and military aircraft programs. Since 1992, CES has been a pioneer in ATM research, which has resulted in the development of a real-time network package of hardware and software, putting CES at the heart of world-leading telecommunications programs. Over the years, CES has developed hardware and software building blocks consisting of interfaces, processors, data links, network products and workstation connections with the aim of producing a "construction set" whose elements can be combined to solve just about all real-time test and simulation problems. These building blocks use well-known standards in hardware (VME, CompactPCI, PCI) and in software (Unix, real-time kernels). Although, recent evolution in the global economic situation has imposed new criteria: > A dramatic increase in the complexity and variety of electronics > Funds and time available for development > A requirement to build scalable and reusable systems > Risk reduction by partnership rather than subcontractor relations, as well as technological control of core elements With these new criteria, the importance of the initial purchase price of a product is minimal compared to the integral running cost of the product. Support and compatibility of product generations are essential to cover the 10 to 20 year time-span of the programs. CES products are designed to achieve these requirements in the most economic and safe way through "one-stop shopping": hardware, software, tuning and assistance. All of the key elements of the hardware and software building blocks are protected by CES intellectual property. Over the years, CES has developed hardware and software building blocks consisting of interfaces, processors, data links, network products and workstation connections with the aim of producing a "construction set" whose elements can be combined to solve just about all real-time test and simulation problems. These building blocks use well-known standards in hardware (VME, CPCI, PCI) and in software (UNIX, real-time kernels).CES designs and manufactures boards and bundled packages, dedicated to data communication and acquisition in hard real-time in three areas: - Telecom network controllers and base stations using ATM and H.110 - Aerospace test and validation and simulation equipment (both Aircraft Ground Equipment - AGE and flight-worthy) - Nuclear and particle physics CES offers a board-level and a system-level product line. These two lines of products can be delivered either in a commercial specification range or in a ruggedized specification range for hostile environments. The key board-level products from CES are: - Custom FPGA PowerPC Multifunction Computing Cores (MFCCs) in PMC form factor - PowerPC-based data-acquisition processors and PMC carriers (VME / CPCI) - Interfaces for physics buses and detectors - Interfaces for aerospace buses in VME, CompactPCI or PMC form factors: MIL-STD 1553B, PCM (telemetry), STANAG 3910, GPS, datation - PCI Worldwide Headquarters:
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