Zeidman Technologies Will Design Your System For You
You can now hire us
to develop your firmware and/or hardware. Leveraging the experience
of our sister company
Zeidman Consulting and the power of
SynthOS, we can develop your firmware in a fraction of the time
that others can. We have years of hardware design experience too.
Contact us to get a quote.
The
Future of Embedded System Development
Embedded system development
is an increasingly difficult task that requires specialized operating
system knowledge. Complex systems create problems like priority
inversion, deadlock situations, race conditions, and unacceptable
task latencies that are difficult to predict and reproduce. Off-the-shelf
operating systems are difficult to debug and often require large
memory footprints, have large overhead delays, and are not flexible.
To create a custom operating system requires special software experience
and is usually beyond the abilities of a typical hardware designer.
Developers need new tools to easily create an optimized operating
system. Zeidman Technologies is creating these tools.
Platform
Systems on a Chip (SOCs)
An exciting emerging
technology is just now coming to market. Platform SOCs — FPGAs
and ASICs with embedded processors — are being offered by all
FPGA vendors and many ASIC vendors. Examples include the Virtex-II
Pro from Xilinx, Excalibur from Altera, and RapidChip from LSI Logic.
These devices are predicted to become the main platforms for embedded
system design. They give developers control over their designs and
allow them to optimize their hardware resources. Tools are needed
to allow the same kind of flexibility in creating the software as
already exists for creating the hardware. Zeidman Technologies is
creating these tools.
Programmable
Processors
Another exciting new
technology, programmable processors — processors whose architecture
can be modified by the user to fit the application — are being
offered by many processor vendors. Examples include the PSoC from
Cypress Microsystems and Xtensa from Tensilica. These devices allow
developers to optimize their hardware resources for their specific
applications. Tools are needed to allow the same kind of flexibility
in creating the software. Zeidman Technologies is creating these
tools.
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