About SimuQuest

Background

SimuQuest is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employs highly talented engineers with overlapping experience in the following areas:

• Traditional hand-code software development for embedded systems.
• Model-based software development for embedded systems.
• Advanced control system design and plant modeling.

Before SimuQuest was created in 2001, team members had prior experience through the mid and late 90’s in transitioning from embedded software development based on traditional hand-coding to development using a model-based approach. Over the years, the model-based process was refined and the many benefits of a model-based approach became clear. This background combined with complimentary experience in systems engineering, systems modeling and advanced control system design provided the impetus to create a consulting company that would provide an optimal solution for embedded control systems and software development. Thus SimuQuest was born!

Since its founding, SimuQuest has been dedicated to the continuous refinement of an agile model-based development process for embedded systems, based on the Mathworks tool platform.

In applying this process with a number of customers, and in solving their embedded development problems, SimuQuest identified the need for third party products for Simulink, that facilitate an optimal model-based process in terms of productivity and quality.

Founders

John Mills and Raymond Turin, the founders of SimuQuest, through years of experience in the development of control systems and software for embedded systems, realized that they had the combined knowledge to significantly improve the model-based development process.

The resulting agile model-based process and toolset solves many of the perennial issues associated with traditional development while also enabling a smooth transition from traditional development to model-based development. Issues addressed include:

• The seamless transtion of control algorithms from R&D across the chasm to production groups.
• The seamless migration from traditional hand-code software development to model-based software development utilizing automatic code generation.
• The ability to develop and test systems in an entirely virtual setting before commiting to software and hardware.