Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Technological Transfer Towards Zettice Start-Up

Participants : Christophe Alias, Adrian Muresan [Zettice] , Alexandru Plesco [Zettice] .

The Zettice start-up project has been initiated by Alexandru Plesco and Christophe Alias in March 2011, with the idea of transferring some of the research concepts emerging from the polyhedral model to the context of high-level circuit synthesis. Since, an important amount of applied research has been achieved to propose an effective technology ready for industrial transfer. From an academic perspective, Zettice is a unique opportunity to cover all the aspects of high-level synthesis from the front-end aspects (polyhedral code analysis and optimization) to the back-end aspects (pipelining, retiming, FPGA mapping) providing a global knowledge of relevant industrial issues.

Zettice received in 2012 the “lean start-up award” of the startup weekend labs 2012, the “most exciting start-up mention” at SAME 2012, and the concours Crealys Excel&Rate 2012 grant (30 Keuros). In 2013, Zettice won the concours OSEO 2013 grant (Banque Publique d'Investissement, 40 Keuros) and the “most promising start-up award” at SAME 2013.

A patent is under deposit. The research results related to Zettice are presented in Section  6.9 . The software tools developed in the context of Zettice are Dcc (see Section  5.8 ) and IceGEN (see Section  5.9 ).