CHARTER - Critical and High Assurance Requirements Transformed through Engineering Rigour - is an ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems Initiative project.

CHARTER aims to develop concepts, methods, and tools for embedded system design and deployment that will enable developers to master the complexity and substantially improve the development, verification and certification of critical embedded systems.

Critical embedded software systems assist, accelerate, and control various aspects of society and are common in cars, aircraft, medical instruments and major industrial and utility plants. These systems are critical to human life and need to be held to the highest standards of performance through formal certification procedures.

CHARTER will ease, accelerate, and cost-reduce the certification of such critical embedded systems by melding real-time Java, Model Driven Development, rule-based compilation, and formal verification. This approach, Quality-Embedded Development (QED), will push software certification to a new level and thereby significantly contribute to the safety and security of the upcoming age of an embedded software society.

CHARTER project technologies will enable new methods of verification and certification that will streamline the process for certification of crucial embedded systems through the use of higher level languages and Model Driven Development methods and tools.

Project Presentation

The CHARTER Project will provide innovative packaging of knowledge and training as part of its dissemination activities during the final phase of the CHARTER project. To this end it will have a persistent virtual exhibition space to showcase the Project Partners and a persistent expo hall where visitors can gain access to training  materials structured around the CHARTER technologies.

The CHARTER Project Showcase will be available commencing Q3 2011.