STMicroelectronics (ST) announced that it participated in the presentation of an open-source-based framework capable of seamlessly simulating cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) systems, as well as networking and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), in an integrated format.

This groundbreaking COSSIM framework ('a novel, comprehensive, ultra-fast, and secure CPS simulator') was developed in close collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, TSI (Telecommunication Systems Institute), and Synelixis under financial support from the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 program, and has successfully completed evaluation using advanced client-server visual search technology that detects images of objects. This evaluation included co-simulation techniques equipped with an experimental embedded system developed by ST.

COSSIM is a state-of-the-art open-source framework that integrates a comprehensive process system simulator with an innovative network simulator. Additionally, advanced power consumption and security measurement models have been developed and directly applied to the end framework. As a high-performance parallel software framework, COSSIM enables the simulator to report a greater number of CPS situations much faster and more accurately than any other existing solution. Since the COSSIM framework uses ST's microcontrollers, it can apply newer and more efficient hardware-accelerated processes.

Danilo Pau, a senior member of the IEEE, ST Chief Engineer, and Technology Executive, stated, “In particular, the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have become urgent to efficiently secure the tremendous growth potential in the Internet of Things market. By applying powerful CPS and cloud simulators, we can satisfy these needs by more efficiently supporting system design engineers in simulation and cosimulation compared to using traditional methods.” He added, “This technology, developed as part of the COSSIM project, can increase system design productivity and, as it is an open-source framework, will benefit from the GitHub community.”