AbsInt
AbsInt provides static analysis and formal verification tools\u2014including the formally verified CompCert C compiler\u2014for safety-critical embedded software, serving aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and space engineering firms needing ISO 26262, DO-178C, and IEC 61508 certification compliance.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1998
- HeadquartersSaarbrücken, Germany
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What AbsInt does
AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Saarbr\u00fccken at the campus of Saarland University, develops and commercializes static analysis and formal verification tools for safety-critical embedded software. Its portfolio addresses the core verification problems in certified embedded development: worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis via aiT, TimeWeaver, and TimingProfiler; worst-case stack-usage analysis via StackAnalyzer; formal proof of absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior via Astr\u00e9e; C/C++ coding-standards compliance (MISRA, CWE, AUTOSAR, MISRA C:2025) via RuleChecker; value analysis via ValueAnalyzer; and energy-consumption estimation via EnergyAnalyzer. The flagship product, CompCert, is the first and only commercially available formally verified C compiler, with correctness of compilation passes proven in the Coq proof assistant and backends for TriCore, PowerPC, ARM, x86, and RISC-V.
The company's underlying technology rests on sound static analysis based on abstract interpretation and mathematically verified compilation, providing provable guarantees rather than heuristic warnings. All major products are paired with qualification kits supporting the dominant safety standards: ISO 26262 for automotive, DO-178B/C for avionics, IEC 61508 for industrial and nuclear, and IEC 60880. The IP base depends on long-running licensing arrangements with French public research: CompCert is commercialized under license from INRIA (agreement since 2007) and Astr\u00e9e under license from CNRS/ENS (since 2001). The flagship IP has been independently recognized with the 2021 ACM Software System Award and the 2019 Embedded Systems Week Test-of-Time Award.
AbsInt sells its tools via direct sales in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and through an authorized distributor network covering France, Benelux, Iberia, Italy, Turkey, India, Brazil, North America, the UK, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, South Korea, Israel, and China. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, built on a one-time/perpetual license model with paid support and maintenance subscriptions; major product releases are published twice yearly. Customers are concentrated in five safety-critical verticals\u2014aviation and aerospace, automotive, energy and nuclear, space, and communications\u2014and include Airbus France, ATR, NASA, ESA, Honda, Daimler, Bosch Automotive Steering, Continental (now Aumovio), Vestas, Framatome, MTU Friedrichshafen, OHB, Thales Alenia Space, Siemens, and u-blox, with several relationships measured in decades.
AbsInt firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- AbsInt
- Legal name
- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH
- Website
- https://absint.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1998
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- AbsInt provides static analysis and formal verification tools\u2014including the formally verified CompCert C compiler\u2014for safety-critical embedded software, serving aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and space engineering firms needing ISO 26262, DO-178C, and IEC 61508 certification compliance.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
AbsInt industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Embedded Software Verification Tools
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Embedded Software & Firmware Tools (Compilers, Debug, RTOS tooling) (HDAHAFAE)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- EDA Software Platforms (Digital Implementation, Verification & Signoff) (HDAHAFAA)
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Where AbsInt is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Saarbrücken
- HQ country
- Germany
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
AbsInt business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Software Licenses: Commercial licenses for static analysis and formal verification tools including aiT, StackAnalyzer, Astrée, RuleChecker, CompCert, TimeWeaver, TimingProfiler, ValueAnalyzer, and EnergyAnalyzer.
- Support and Maintenance: Paid support and maintenance packages providing updates, with major releases published twice yearly. Every commercial license includes six months of free updates.
- Qualification Services: Qualification kits and services for safety standards compliance including ISO 26262, DO-178B/C, and IEC 61508.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | Commercial licenses with support/maintenance |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels7 records
Marketing channels4 records
AbsInt product offering
Product offeringCore offering
AbsInt develops and sells static analysis and formal verification tools for safety-critical embedded software. Its product family includes worst-case execution time analyzers (aiT, TimeWeaver), stack and memory analyzers (StackAnalyzer, ValueAnalyzer, EnergyAnalyzer), a sound static analyzer for runtime errors and data races (Astrée), a coding-rule checker (RuleChecker), a timing profiler (TimingProfiler), and CompCert — the only commercially available, formally verified C compiler. The tools are used by avionics, automotive, space, energy, and industrial automation developers to obtain sound worst-case timing, stack, and memory bounds and to qualify their toolchains under DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and IEC 60880.
Product overview
AbsInt provides a comprehensive toolchain for static analysis and formal verification of safety-critical software. The portfolio includes aiT, TimeWeaver, and TimingProfiler for timing analysis (WCET computation and execution time estimation); StackAnalyzer for worst-case stack usage analysis; Astrée and RuleChecker for runtime error detection and coding guideline compliance checking; CompCert as the first formally verified C compiler supporting multiple architectures; ValueAnalyzer for value analysis; and EnergyAnalyzer for energy consumption estimation. All tools support qualification kits for ISO 26262, DO-178B/C, IEC 61508, and other safety standards.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- aiT: Static WCET (worst-case execution time) analysis tool that computes safe and tight upper bounds for execution time of tasks in binary executables, considering cache and pipeline behavior.
- StackAnalyzer
- Astrée
- RuleChecker
- CompCert
- TimeWeaver
- TimingProfiler
- ValueAnalyzer
- EnergyAnalyzer
Products and services
- aiT — Worst-Case Execution Time Analyzer Static worst-case execution time analyzer that computes safe and tight upper bounds on the runtime of real-time tasks without instrumentation. Used by safety-critical embedded software developers in avionics, automotive, space, and industrial automation who must demonstrate deterministic timing under DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and IEC 60880.
- StackAnalyzer Static stack-usage analyzer that computes the worst-case stack consumption of embedded software at the binary level. Used by safety-critical embedded developers who must prove that no stack overflow can occur on resource-constrained MCUs and processors.
- Astrée Sound static analyzer for C and C++ programs that detects runtime errors, data races, and coding-rule violations (including MISRA C/C++ and other rule sets). Used by embedded software developers in safety-critical industries to prove the absence of common runtime faults and to comply with coding guidelines.
- RuleChecker Coding-rule checker that statically verifies adherence to MISRA C/C++, CWE, SEI CERT C, and other secure/safe-coding standards for C and C++ source code. Used by embedded software teams that need to demonstrate conformance to mandated or recommended coding standards.
- CompCert Formally verified C compiler whose semantic correctness has been machine-checked in the Coq proof assistant, meaning the compiled assembly behaves as specified by the C source. Used by safety-critical developers who cannot tolerate compiler-introduced defects in certified software, including avionics, space, defense, automotive, and security-sensitive applications.
- TimeWeaver Trace-based hybrid worst-case execution time analyzer that combines on-target execution traces with static path analysis to compute tight WCET bounds without requiring a detailed processor model. Used by embedded software developers who need WCET results on processors not yet supported by full static analysis.
- TimingProfiler Timing profiler that generates flow facts and other measurement-based inputs to support timing analyses with aiT and TimeWeaver, helping users provide coverage and execution-context data for tighter WCET results. Used by embedded software developers running hybrid timing analyses.
- ValueAnalyzer Static value-range and memory-access analyzer that derives sound approximations of variable values, pointer targets, and memory regions at each program point. Used by embedded software developers as a frontend and shared semantic layer for downstream stack, energy, and timing analyses.
- EnergyAnalyzer Static energy-consumption analyzer that computes worst-case energy use of embedded software from instruction-level energy models of the target processor. Used by embedded developers of battery-powered and energy-constrained devices who must bound energy consumption without physical measurement.
Quantifiable outcome
- WCET reduction of ~28% with CompCert-generated code vs conventional compiler
- +2 more outcomes
Companies that use AbsInt
Customer profileNamed customers16 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
AbsInt technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration11 records
AI capability5 records
Feature8 records
AbsInt partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor, major and core.
- TeamPlayminorEU research project on time, energy, and power analysis for embedded platforms.
- MORALminorEU research project on formal methods for automotive and aerospace safety-critical systems.
- TRISTANminorEU research project on safety-critical systems.
- Scale4EdgeminorEU research project on secure low-power computing for RISC-V based edge computing.
- ARGSminorEU research project on automotive software development.
- AQUASminorEU research project on aggregated quality assurance for safety-critical systems.
- Thales Alenia SpacemajorPartners on five different EU research projects since 2009. Uses EnergyAnalyzer to estimate energy consumption of satellite communications software.
- INRIAcoreCompCert is developed and distributed by AbsInt under license from INRIA. INRIA holds the intellectual property rights to CompCert while AbsInt handles commercial distribution and support.
- DLR (German Aerospace Center)majorPartnership since 2003 on eight different mid-term research projects, one currently ongoing. DLR collaborates on aerospace software verification research.
- CNRS/ENS (Astrée)coreAstrée is developed and distributed by AbsInt under license from CNRS/ENS. AbsInt holds commercialization rights for the Astrée static analyzer.
- CNRS (French Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies)majorLong-standing research partnership since 2000 with eight different European Union research projects, one currently ongoing. CEA contributes to AbsInt's research initiatives in formal verification and static analysis.
Scale indicators2 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights5 records
AbsInt competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Synopsys: Largest EDA and software integrity vendor (including Coverity static analysis and DesignWare embedded processors). Competes broadly with AbsInt in static analysis for safety-critical embedded software and through integrated EDA toolchains.
- Cadence Design Systems: Major EDA vendor with embedded software and verification offerings (Palladium, Tensilica). Competes with AbsInt in automotive/embedded verification workflows as part of a much broader chip-to-system portfolio.
Direct peers
- Ansys (SCADE): SCADE Suite is a model-based development environment for safety-critical embedded software with DO-178C qualification — directly integrated with AbsInt's StackAnalyzer. Targets the same avionics and automotive ECU customers.
- MathWorks (Polyspace): Polyspace provides static analysis and formal verification of C/C++ for embedded software, including MISRA and code-run-time error detection. Closest direct competitor to Astrée and RuleChecker in automotive and aerospace markets.
- LDRA: Specialist in software analysis, testing, and standards compliance (MISRA, DO-178C, IEC 61508, ISO 26262). Directly competes with RuleChecker and Astrée in safety-critical embedded code verification.
- Parasoft: Provides static analysis (C/C++test) and safety-critical compliance tooling for automotive (ISO 26262) and aerospace (DO-178C). Competes head-on with RuleChecker in MISRA/CWE compliance workflows.
- GrammaTech (CodeSonar): CodeSonar is a deep static analysis tool for C/C++ detecting bugs, security vulnerabilities, and runtime errors. Competes with Astrée in safety-critical embedded and security-critical code analysis.
- Rapita Systems: Specialist in WCET analysis (RapiTime) and on-target timing measurement for avionics and automotive. The closest direct competitor to aiT in worst-case execution time analysis.
- Vector Informatik: Provides AUTOSAR and embedded software tools for automotive ECUs, including timing and stack analysis tooling that overlaps with StackAnalyzer and aiT in ISO 26262 programs.
Emerging players
- AdaCore: Provider of GNAT Pro Ada/SPARK toolchain — SPARK offers formal verification for safety-critical software. Partners with AbsInt (GNAT Pro ARM/x86 support in Release 26.04) and increasingly competes in the formal-verification-for-embedded niche.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
AbsInt social profiles
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Trust signalCompliance7 records
AbsInt financial estimates
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AbsInt leadership team
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AbsInt funding detail
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Frequently asked questions about AbsInt
What does AbsInt do?
AbsInt develops and sells static analysis and formal verification tools for safety-critical embedded software. Its product family includes worst-case execution time analyzers (aiT, TimeWeaver), stack and memory analyzers (StackAnalyzer, ValueAnalyzer, EnergyAnalyzer), a sound static analyzer for runtime errors and data races (Astrée), a coding-rule checker (RuleChecker), a timing profiler (TimingProfiler), and CompCert — the only commercially available, formally verified C compiler. The tools are used by avionics, automotive, space, energy, and industrial automation developers to obtain sound worst-case timing, stack, and memory bounds and to qualify their toolchains under DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and IEC 60880.
Is AbsInt a public or private company?
AbsInt is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was AbsInt founded?
AbsInt was founded in 1998. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is AbsInt based?
AbsInt is headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, in the Europe region.
How does AbsInt make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Software Licenses are the primary driver. The others are support and Maintenance and qualification Services.
Who are AbsInt's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Synopsys and Cadence Design Systems. Direct peers are Ansys (SCADE), MathWorks (Polyspace), LDRA, Parasoft, GrammaTech (CodeSonar), Rapita Systems and Vector Informatik. AdaCore is listed as an emerging player.
Does AbsInt have an API?
No public API is recorded for AbsInt.
What industry is AbsInt in?
AbsInt's product category is Embedded Software Verification Tools. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAHAFAE, Embedded Software & Firmware Tools (Compilers, Debug, RTOS tooling), with a secondary code of HDAHAFAA, EDA Software Platforms (Digital Implementation, Verification & Signoff). Its NAICS code is 5132 and its SIC code is 7372.