1. Retour d’experience: R&D en entreprise
Laurent Maillet-Contoz
Manager, System Level Modeling
STMicroelectronics, Grenoble
03 Mai Découverte des métiers de la recherche

2. Innovation or R&D?
Innovation: the implementation of a new or significantly improved product or process, a new marketing or organizational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations
Scientific
Technological
Organisational
Financial
Commercial
Steps toward implementation
Innovative activities
Not novel but necessary for implementation
Include R&D not directly related to the development of a specific innovation

3. experimental Development Experimental development
Innovation or R&D?
Experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view
Basic research
Research and
experimental Development
(R&D)
Applied research
Experimental development
Original investigation undertaken
in order to acquire new knowledge. Directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective
Systematic work, based on existing knowledge to produce new materials, products, devices, processes or to improve substantially existing ones

4. Design flows & Processes
R&D ecosystem
Products
Design enablement
Time to Market
Manage design complexity
2 complementary axis
Internal R&D
Cooperative R&D (France, Europe)
Design flows & Processes
Silicon Technos

5. Evolution of design flow5
Functionality, safety, security
Performances
Specification
2000’s
Architecture
design
Verification
Silicon
Board
Hardware design
Architecture
Coding
Debug
Architecture
Implementation
Debug
Software design
Virtual prototype
Integration/Validation
Savings
2010’s
Shift-left paradigm

6. My profile
1997
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
System Level Design Eng.
Project Leader
Team
Func. Mgr.
Manager
PhD. M. Moy
PhD. G. Funchal
PhD. A. Chichignoud
PhD HW/SW CoDesign
PhD. C. Helmstetter
PhD. J. Cornet
R&D
PhD. E. Viaud
(EU) Strategic Research Agenda
(FUI) SocKeT TL
(EU) Sprint WP Leader
(ANR) HeLP WP Leader
(EU) OpenES Project Leader
DAC PC
ERTS PC
Ensimag
Schools
Conseil Scientifique ESIEE
Conseil Perf. ESIEE
SystemC:
Methodologies and Applications
TLM book
EDA Handbook
1st edition
Tutorial DAC
Tutorials DAC, ICCAD, NOCS
Seminar
Collège de France
Keynote
ARM Global
Modeling Conference
EDA Handbook
2nd edition
Ext. comm.
Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level:
Industry Perspectives and Experiences
TLM Working Group
Soft IP tagging
Standards
TLM 1
TLM 2
OSCI BoD
Accellera Systems Initiative BoD
OSCI/Accellera
Merger
DVCon Europe PC

7. Conclusion
R&D activities executed in support to innovative products development
Technical and economical benefits expected by the company
Internal activities are not enough, leveraging on R&D ecosystem is key
To acquire or confirm theoretical background
To speed-up obtention of relevant results
A virtuous cycle from R&D to R&D
Functional modeling
Reset/frequency/power
Identify upcoming challenges to feed the R&D pipeline
Distributed and heterogeneous simulation
Contract based modeling
An exciting journey!