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 An important goal of COLUMBUS is to form a bridge
between Europe and US research community with the
intent of setting the scene for future collaboration
at all levels.
The overarching goal of COLUMBUS is to have an optimized,
semiautomated, transparent, verifiable and mathematically
correct flow from product specification through to
implementation for SW-dominated products implemented with
highly programmable platforms.
This vision can be decomposed into the major stages of
design (specification; refinement and decomposition; and
analysis), and implementation (target platform definition;
mapping; and links to implementation)
Finding the entire set of methodologies, tools and
IP’s needed to design an electronic system from
conception to implementation in a single company or
University is out of the question. For this reason,
we strongly believe that collaboration among
Universities and several segments of the electronics
industry is needed. In addition, while the system
industry in Europe has been traditionally strong
both in terms of products and methodologies,
implementation of platforms and middleware has been
an area of strength in the US. On the research side,
DARPA has funded for a few years a strong program in
the area of embedded systems and software. The
European Union with IST program has also fostered
research in the area of embedded systems. It will be
beneficial if both sides of the Ocean could
collaborate to solve one of the most challenging
research problems for the next ten years.
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