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March 14, 2006
Zealcore's time-travelling software debugger tool
Reading about ZealCore Embedded Solutions, a Swedish company that just raised a small round of funding, it’s hard not to think about airplanes and crashes, what with the terminology used, black boxes, reconstructing of events, and real time recording.
An airplane black box is like ZealCore's.
Actually, that's what the startup wants you to think of, crashes. How application crashes went down is the focus of some of ZealCore’s products, built to automate software debugging.
The firm says that computer software keeps getting bigger and bigger, with ever increasing complexity, and the potential for more software bugs as a result. It's especially acute in larger systems that are controlled by software, such as the kind of equipment used in power generation and engineering enviornments, it says.
The state of the art, is "diagnostics and maintenance" by lots of humans, not tools. ZealCore sells the tools that it feels have been missing from the market.
Swiss engineering firm ABB was one of its first customers.
Founded in 2001 the company's products are derived from research done at the Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre in Västerås and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
ZealCore says that the university:
“… work led to the discovery of a unique technique allowing time travel and replay of complex embedded distributed real-time systems based on minimalistic software based recordings. “
It enables time travel? We’ll take one of those to go, please.
Read - SEK 12 million in venture capital to ZealCore
Posted on March 14, 2006 11:46 AM | Posted to Emdedded Systems | Permalink
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