CertiCon At a Glance
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Founded in 1996
In North America and Asia represented by
HSP, Inc., Mequon, WI
Headquarters in Prague, branches in Pilsen,
Vienna-Austria
150+ SW Engineers, Researchers &
Academicians
Dun & Bradstreet rating 1A1, DUNS 36-690-9096
ISO 9001 certification UKAS, ANSI-RAB (BVQI)
Business focus in consultancy and co-sourcing
services:
• life and mission-critical systems
• decision support and productivity systems
• applied research
• ASIC design, verification and testing
Success Stories
Vitatron (NL)/Medtronic (US)
Teradyne (US)
Frequentis (AT)
Robert Bosch (DE)
Cadence Design Systems (DE)
IFAC Federation (Austria)
Berman Group (CZ)
IBM (CZ)
Gedas (CZ)/ Skoda (CZ)
Tesla (CZ)
Ministry of Finance (CZ)
GRUNDFOS (DK)
Cognitive Security (CZ)
DHL (CZ)
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True Value & ROI
 We are reliable with a highly-ethical culture
 We deliver complete work with no re-iterations
 We keep high quality without compromise
STANDARDS
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Certified processes to:
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Design, development, testing and diagnostics of software products
including provision of outsourcing and other related services.
Design, development and simulation of digital, analog and mixed-signal
integrated circuits and provision of related outsourcing services.
Standards
Description
CERTICON
ISO 13485:2003
Medical devices - Quality management
systems
Compliant, audited
by customer
ISO 9001:2000
Company Quality System – model for
quality assurance in design/development,
production, installation and servicing
Compliant and
certified
ISO 14971:2000
Medical devices – application of risk
management to medical devices
Compliant, not
audited,
CERTICON is
delivering only data
to risk
management
S/W Engineering
 CERTICON builds long term partnerships
Plan
with its customers and delivers complex
projects from raw specification to building
the entire domain knowledge
 CertiCon is a “center of excellence” for:
▬ Programming languages
▬ Development environments
▬ Scripting languages
▬ Various development platforms
▬ Requirements, Configuration & Change
Management
Evaluate
Design
Execute
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Report
Implement
Dry run
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Automate
 CertiCon participates in key research
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projects at CTU and transfer s value add
knowledge base to its customers:
 CertiCon delivers engineering
Network security
Healthcare
Industrial automation – Prediction System
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services in Informatics:
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Life and mission-critical systems
Decision support and production
systems
Analytical Data Management
Applied research
Integrated Circuits Design
Applied Research
 Biology Inspired Computing, Artificial Intelligence
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Problem solving, logic programming, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge
ontologies, knowledge, bio and medical decision making
 Intelligent Data Analysis, Data-mining
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Data mining, evolutionary computing, data warehousing, data and SW architectures, relational
learning
 Agent Technology and Distributed Decision Making
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Distributed Artificial Intelligence, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, communication &
negotiation, coordination & cooperation, collective behavior, trust, agent platforms, production
planning and scheduling
 System Diagnostics and Software Testing
- Complex software semi-automatic testing methodology, AI methods for diagnostics,
distributed
diagnostics,
 Computer Network Security
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network intrusion detection and prevention
ASIC Design/DVT
1. Complete analog design flow
2. Complete digital design flow
3. Automotive power design
4. Low voltage design
5. RF design
Design
Analysis
Production Test
Prototype verification
Digital IC design
Analog IC design
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SW Testing
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Applications, Web, Large Information Systems, Databases, &
Hardware Tests
Certified processes
Compliance with IEEE/ANSI standards (lifecycle, documentation,
reviews)
Controlled environment setup and maintenance
Audits (internal, external, by customer)
Business Units
Large
Information
Systems
TELCO
AUTOMOTIVE
HEALTHCARE
We are adding the true value to the SW engineering
Healthcare BU
 Co-operation with:
• Recognized International Universities
• Laboratories
• Specialized centers
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on:
Cardiovascular & Neurology
Diabetes & Parkinson
Life Critical Medical devices
CT, MRI, Medical Imaging
EMR - electronic medical records
HIS - Hospital info systems
Data privacy
Automotive BU
Focused on:
Software development for
automotive aftermarket
solutions:
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Control unit diagnostics
and configuration software
Diagnostics software
access for vehicle
identification, data, storage
and communication
OEM vehicle system tester
TELCO BU
Focused on:
Software development, integration
and maintenance in the areas of:
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Digital Radio Communication
Public Transport - GSM-R
Telecommunication Solutions
Air Traffic Management
Public Safety (Command and
Control Centre Solutions)
HW/SW Testing
Focused on:
Production test development:
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Test programs (VBT) for the
FLEX platform, which
utilizes multi-site testing.
Analog and RF production
test development
Stack-at test development
DIB board development
Test debugging on the
production tester
(Flex/Microflex/J750)
EU Projects Involvement
 CZ Project of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic LN00B096 - "Center of Applied Cybernetics"
 EC IST-Trial Project: IST-1999-20171 “ Exploitation of Agent-Based
Production Planning using the ProPlanT Technology”
 EC EUTIST-AMI IST-2000-28221 trial project – “ Exploitation of the ProPlanT agent technology for extra-enterprise production planning”
 EC Joint Research Program INCO-COPERNICUS 977091 "Geographical Information On-line Analysis"
 EC GROWTH Research and Technology Development project GRD12000-25065/GRD3-2001-60064 - "Modular Plant Architecture"
 EC Presence Research - Future and Emerging Technologies: Cognitive
Sciences and Future Media, IST FET Proactive Initiative IST-200138873 - "Building Presence through Localization for Hybrid Telematic
Systems"
 EC IST/NMP Information Society Technologies Project - FP6 IP 506958
- "European Collaborative Networked Organizations Leadership
Initiative"
CTU Projects Involvement
Czech Technical University, Prague
CTU Founded
1707
 Data mining in Deep Brain Stimulation
 Study of the role of the sub-thalamus in motor, visual
and affective processing
 Automatic classification of intrapartal fetal heart rate
recordings
 Intelligent methods for evaluation of long-term EEG
recordings
 Estimation of Blood Flow and Blood Pressure Manner
in Different-Sized Patients
 Production scheduling (Skoda, Foxcon)
 SCADA generic tool development (with TU Vienna)
 Open prediction system
 Agile production planning and scheduling
 Estimation of Blood Flow and Blood Pressure Manner
in Different-Sized Patients
CERTICON TEAM
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Steering Committee
CEO
PARTNERS
SALES
SW
Engineering
CZECH TECHNICAL
UNIVERSITY- Prague
ASIC/HW
Engineering
FINANCE
HR
Technical University
Vienna
W-Bohemian University
Pilsen
Laboratory Gerstner
TECHNICAL
UNIVERSITY- Brno
Christian Doppler
Centre of Applied
Cybernetics
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CertiCon a.s.
Václavská 12,
120 00 Prague 2,
Czech Republic
www.certicon.cz
email: info@certicon.cz
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CertiCon a.s.
Teslova 1
301 00 Pilsen
Czech Republic
CertiCon a.s.
10 S. 3rd Street,
Suit 213,
San Jose,
95113 CA, USA
CertiCon a.s.
Brucknerstraße 6/7a
1040, Vienna
Austria