Acknowledgements
Principal funding for the Ptolemy project comes from
the National Science Foundation (NSF award number CCR-00225610), the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Chess (the
Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems), which receives
support from the State of California MICRO program, and the following
companies: Daimler-Chrysler, Hitachi, Honeywell, Toyota and Wind
River Systems.
The Ptolemy Project has had long standing interactions with a
number of research groups that have profoundly influenced our work.
We mention a few of these:
- Agilent, particularly the EESof division
and Agilent Labs.
- David Barton, Perry Alexander, and the
Rosetta team.
- Albert Benveniste, Gerard Berry, and the entire
synchronous language community.
- The group of Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya,
University of Maryland.
- The group of Prof. Fernand Boeri,
Universite de Nice, France.
- Cadence, and particularly the SPW, BOSS,
and VCC groups.
- The group of Hugo De Man,
IMEC, Belgium.
- Jack Dennis, Arvind, and the whole dataflow architecture
community.
- The group of Prof. Gerhard Fettweis,
TU Dresden, Germany.
- The groups of Tom Henzinger, Kurt Keutzer, David Messerschmitt,
Richard Newton, and
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, all at
UC Berkeley.
- Prof. Soonhoi Ha,
Seoul National University, Korea.
- David Harel, Amir Pnueli, and the whole
Statecharts community.
- The group of Paul Hudak,
Yale University.
- The group of Gilles Kahn,
INRIA, France.
- The group of David Kaplan,
Naval Research Labs.
- The group of Dr. Ir. Rudy Lauwereins,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- The group of Prof. Luciano Lavagno
Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
- The Math Works, particularly the
Simulink team.
- The group of Prof. Heinrich Meyr,
Aachen University of Technology.
- Philips, and particularly Kees Vissers and
the video signal processing group.
- The group of Janos Sztipanovits,
Vanderbilt University.
- Structured Software Systems, and particularly Tom Lane.
- Synopsys, and particularly Joe Buck
and the El Greco project.
- Thales (formerly Thomson-CSF), and particularly
Ed Willink and Xavier Warzee.
- The group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lothar Thiele,
ETH, Switzerland.