Cichon Engineering Consulting assists in implementing customer specific applications with high performance and low power consumption. This is possible both on the basis of Cichon's products (e.g. see Raccoon ), or on the basis of the client's own platform (e.g. embedded, cloud computing, GPU, Cell, FPGAs).

For example, Cichon Engineering Consulting performs consulting and development in the following areas:

• Development of Embedded Systems (Tricore)
• Applications in high-performance, low-power computing
• Numerical stability analysis

Cichon Engineering Consulting offers expertise in the following application domain

• Automotive: embedded Tricore, safety, radar, entertainment
• Image Processing: driver assistance 3D-reconstruktion, tracking
• Wireless: 5G, LTE, DVB-T, DVB-H, W-LAN, UMTS
• Multi-Media: Direct-X, Open GL, Windows Media, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
• Robotics

In particular, we offer the following services:

Concept Engineering

• Domain analysis, project planning and management
• algorithmic research: software and hardware architecture, requirement analysis, specification, validation
• correctness proof: numerical stability analysis

Modeling

• Modeling: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (e.g. UML), Behavioral Modeling (e.g. in Matlab), Transactional Modeling (e.g. System-C)
• Optimization e.g. in C/C++, Assembler, CUDA, Hardware
• Implementation and test in Hardware, Firmware, and Software for DSP, Microcontroller, FPGA, and ASIC systems

Implementation

• Design-Flow: Simulation, process modeling and –visualization, Synthesis, Validation, Verification
• Automated Test, Randomized Test, Formal Verification
• System integration with analog and SoC
• Supplier Quality Management

Intellectual Property Services

• Technical Expert Opinion
• Invention on Demand

Standardization

• Contribution to Standardization Bodies
• Analyzing Standardization Documents for SEPs

Safety Critical Systems

Cichon Engineering Consulting provides a wide range of services related to safety critical applications. Among these are system qualification according to ISO 26262 , and formal verification.