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Nov 26, 2008
Training course on the use of Scicos-FLEX code generator: ZigBee networks.
Dec 15-17, 2008 - Pisa, Italy

Nov 7, 2008
Scilab 5.0.3 has been released : The Scilab Team is pleased to announce the latest stable release of Scilab 5.0.
 
Oct 20, 2008
Cosateq Joins Scilab Consortium.
See the press release.

Sept 12, 2008
Release of Scilab 5.0: Distributed under the CeCILL license (GNU GPL compatible), Scilab 5.0, available for Windows and Linux, inaugurates the new generation of Scilab software.
 
Aug 21, 2008
First digiteo annual forum .
October 2, 2008 - Supélec

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New trends around Scilab
Scilab/Scicos code generator for DSP/micro controller
Using the Scilab/Scicos FLEX Toolbox (now update to the last Scilab 4.1.2) it is possible to automatically generate code from Scicos diagrams to fast prototype digital control systems for micro controller and DSP embedded application.

This work has been done by Evidence (Italy) in collaboration with Simone Mannori (INRIA Roquencourt, Fr) and Roberto Bucher (SUPSI Lugano, Ch).
Embedding Scilab/Scicos
Scilab-EMB is the porting of the complete Scilab 4.x platform on a Linux OS optimized for embedded PC based on ARM processor. The full documentation of the project it is available on the web site maintained by Zhe Peng (Cn) and Longhua Ma (Cn).
Parallel execution
on clusters and desktop grids

ProActive is the Java GRID middleware library for parallel, distributed and multi-threaded computing.

The goal of the ProActive Interface is to equip Scilab with a generic interface to Grid computing.
This extension has to allow the deployment of Scilab instances on several nodes of the grid, to use these instances like computing engines, and to submit Scilab tasks over the grid.
Scilab in european and national projects
hArtes
Scilab takes part in European project named “hArtes” funded by FP6 call5 Embedded Systems. hArtes aims to lay the foundation for a new holistic (end-to-end) approach for complex real-time embedded system design, with the latest algorithm exploration tools and reconfigurable hardware technologies.
From the application point of view, the complexity of future multimedia devices is becoming too big to design monolithic processing platforms. This is where the hArtes approach with reconfigurable heterogeneous system becomes vital.
SCOS
Investments in industries and research labs are done too many times in the scientific computing area. Therefore, SCOS will propose to build up the necessary frame to make it easy through interoperability, open standards (for open or commercial applications) and using some Open Source easy-to-use tools.
Scientific Computing has to enter the world of industrialized solutions. Shared standards and interoperability should be the rule, no the exception any. This is the aim of the SCOS project: make the scientist's life easiest, sharing tools and results with its colleague when needed.
OMD
The Multidisciplinary Optimization project (OMD) is an initiative gathering public laboratories and companies around the optimization of complex systems. This project is supported by the participants and the National Agency of French Research / National Network of Software Technologies (ANR/RNTL).
Exploratory project OMD proposes the development of tools for collaborative and robust optimization. These tools will be validated on three real cases in aircraft, space and automobile industries. They will be available as Scilab toolbox.
Scilab used in Eurocodes
The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning advises, for research departments and for public construction & building sector, to employ Scilab to get used to the Eurocodes.

The Eurocodes are a new set of European structural design codes for building and civil engineering works.
Scilab - LabVIEW™ Gateway
Connecting LabVIEW with Scilab … and getting Scilab’s power through LabVIEW.
Download Scilab - LabVIEW Gateway.
LabVIEW is a trademark of National Instruments.
Scilab toolboxes
Scilab is an open source software. There are many ways to contribute to Scilab, and users are invited to share their experience of Scilab by submitting their own functions, toolboxes, documentation, user guides, translations etc. Your contribution to Scilab is welcome.
See the dedicated web pages.
Scicos: Scilab's block diagram modeler/simulator
Developped by Metalau research-team, from INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt research center, Scicos is a graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator toolbox.
Scicos is used for applications in control, communication, signal processing, queuing systems, electromechanical, physical and biological systems.
With Scicos you can create block diagrams to model and simulate the dynamics of hybrid dynamical systems and generate standalone C source code.
Note that Scicos is delivered into Scilab.
Numerical Mathematics Consortium
News release - Sep. 24, 2007
Numerical Mathematics Consortium Updates Open Standard for Algorithm Development. Revised Specification Addresses New Functions and Lays Foundation for Active Involvement.
See the Press release.

Find the European site of the NMC, the press releases and the works in progress about development of the semantics of the mathematical functions.