ZEALCORE TODAY

ZealCore technology integrated in world leading train manufacturer’s system platform

2008-05-14T16:51:00.004+02:00

April 2008

Bombardier Transportation has chosen ZealCore's System Recorder and System Debugger to enhance the visibility and the observability of its train control systems. ZealCore’s technology is now integrated with Bombardier Transportation’s system platform BOMBARDIER MITRAC* where VxWorks is the RTOS.

-“With limited support from ZealCore it was uncomplicated to make the integration into our system platform. ZealCore’s products now give us new and better possibilities to analyze event histories and system behaviour” says Anders Östmark, Manager Software Products at Bombardier Transportation.

Smart recording
In order to collect diagnostic information for facilitating debugging, system developers have traditionally had to write their own diagnostic program code, a method that has several disadvantages: Diagnostic data collection not only requires considerable system resources, using CPU power intended for the target application; data collection itself also influences the system behaviour, often causing unwanted side effects, so called “probe-effects”, or “Heisenbugs”.

The key to ZealCore’s technology lies in the smart, economic recording mechanism of data for offline analysis, which requires a minimal amount of data. Systems performance is only affected marginally. This means that the recording functionality can remain within the deployed system, ensuring that it behaves exactly the same during field operation and development, hence eliminating the probe-effect.

ZealCore was founded in 2001 within Mälardalen RealTime Research Centre, MRTC, and was spun off in 2004. The founders Henrik Thane, and Kristian Sandström both remain active in the company. ZealCore’s investors include KTH Chalmers Capital, The Swedish Industrial Development Fund and SEB Venture Capital.

*BOMBARDIER MITRAC is trademark of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries

For questions and additional information, please contact:
Tom Rapaport, CEO ZealCore, tel: +46 707 328 009, e-Mail: tom.rapaport@zealcore.comwww.zealcore.com

ZealCore's technology now in vehicles from world leading manufacturer!

2008-02-05T10:35:00.000+01:00

ZealCore 2008-01-25

ZealCore's System Recorder and System Debugger have successfully accelerated troubleshooting during deployment of vehicle systems. The ZealCore technology was integrated into the customers development platform, based on VxWorks from WindRiver, giving new insights to system behavior.

ZealCore Embedded Solutions Joins IBM PartnerWorld

2008-02-05T10:30:00.000+01:00

ZealCore 2007-11-16

ZealCore Embedded Solutions has successfully validated their System Debugger as Ready for Rational Software. The software validation shows that our product meet IBM Rational’s quality and integration guidelines, enabling a compatible and consistent user experience.
Our software is developed according to the Eclipse guidelines and can as such be integrated with products based on the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform and other Eclipse based products.

Read the White Paper on System Debugging

2007-10-15T09:58:00.000+02:00

The White Paper on System Debugging

by
Henrik Thane, Ph.D. and Kristian Sandtröm, Ph.D.

Abstract

In a world of computers with ever increasing complexity and pervasiveness, there is an increasing need for debugging methods that can tackle system level faults, where reproducibility and observability of multiple interacting programs and subsystems can be dealt with holistically, and where in field debugging is as important as predeployment debugging.
In this paper we describe System Debugging as the next step into which traditional debugging methods need to evolve in order understand complex failure situations, by means of holistically recording and replaying software and hardware faults.

System Debugger version 1.1 Released

2007-10-15T09:53:00.000+02:00

The System Debugger version 1.1 has been released and is now available for download

http://www.zealcore.com/downloadpage.html

http://www.zealcore.com/download_eval_license.html

New features and bugfixes in the ZealCore System Debugger 1.1 release.
Focus for this release is to improve the error handling and usability.
Workspaces from System Debugger 1.0 are not directly compatible with 1.1

Changes in version 1.1 - 2007-10-10

NEW FEATURES
* Following views have been converted to editors:
- Timeline Browser (previously Event Timeline)
- Gantt Chart (previously Gantt)
- Text Browser (previously Text View)

* New Browsers for models and importers which support UML events
- Sequence Diagram
- State Diagram

* RCP Platform includes Eclipse Web Browser and Text Editor

* The RCP now has a System Debugger feature and branding plug-in

* Possible to change workspace in RCP

IMPROVEMENTS

* Search is now integrated in the Platform search, CTRL-H
* Improved Import Wizard
* Bookmarks View is renamed to Logmarks
* Updated icons
* Failed assertions are placed first in result list
* Improved managing of large search- and assertion results
* It is now possible to clear a set color from events and tasks

ZealCore lauches Pioneering Diagnostic Toolset

2007-06-19T10:15:00.000+02:00

2007-06-19

The Swedish company ZealCore launches a new kind of tool for debugging of computer software. Using breakthrough recording and debugging technology, ZealCore radically accelerate development and troubleshooting of embedded systems software. Bugs can be found and eliminated faster in deployed systems at a dramatically reduced cost.

Press Release English

Press Release Swedish

Tom Rapaport Joins ZealCore as new CEO

2006-09-01T19:56:00.000+02:00

2006-09-01

On September 1 Tom Rapaport began as new Chief Executive Officer for ZealCore Embedded Solutions AB. Tom has more than 20 years of experience from the IT-industry and comes from IFS Sverige AB where he recently held the position of regional manager and senior vice president.

ZealCore's former CEO, and founder, Henrik Thane remains as senior vice president, heading market development and technology research.

Press Release

Two new skilled empoyees

2006-06-12T19:56:00.000+02:00

2006-06-12

ZealCore strengthens the product development team with two experienced developers. They will assist in developing the next version of the BlackBox product suite consisiting of refined tools for Observation, Analysis and Replication of embedded systems.

SEB Företagsinvest, Industrifonden and KTH Seed Capital invest in ZealCore

2006-03-14T11:17:00.000+01:00

2006-03-14

With these established and competent investors ZealCore will have the opportunity to accelerate business sales and focus on bringing new products to the market.

Investment in ZealCore, pressrelease in Swedish PDF >>

Investment in ZealCore, pressrelease in English PDF >>

ZealCore announces new products based on the BlackBox Technology

2006-02-01T19:55:00.000+01:00

2006-02-01

With the recording architect and the BlackBox System Explorer™, ZealCore provides a standardized easy to use platform for instrumentation, analysis, profiling and the visualisation of an embedded system. The new package is developed as an Eclipse plug-in or as a standalone application. The release is planned during Q3.

ZealCore is in control when the computer fails

2005-09-07T19:55:00.000+02:00

2005-09-07

ZealCores BlackBox Technology™ is the computer industry answer to aircraft flight recorders in the airplane industry. It is time to find out what happened! Ny teknik, a Swedish paper, writes an article about ZealCore products and great potential.

Ny Teknik article in Swedish >>

BlackBox recorders available for OSE and PowerPC

2005-06-22T19:55:00.000+02:00

2005-06-22

ZealCore announces successful implementation of the BlackBox Technology™ into the OSE environment. Benchmarking on a PowerPC CPU shows less load and better performance than before.

ZealCore is now among the Tech Tour Top 50

2005-05-17T19:54:00.000+02:00

2005-05-17

ZealCore is selected among the 50 most interesting and innovative technology vendors situated in Sweden. In the 19th edition, the European Tech Tour will visit Stockholm and the Nordic regions to showcase Sweden's rich culture of technology and innovation. Sweden has been ranked as having the best innovation climate among all EU nations, the U.S. and Japan, according to the EU Commission's. The Swedish Tech Tour will highlight this enormous potential and depth during its tour across the country. Visit the link below for the announcement (in Swedish).

Tech Tour Announcement PDF, Swedish edition >>

Gartner recognizes ZealCore as a "Cool Vendor"

2005-05-10T19:54:00.000+02:00

2005-05-10

Gartner anticipates a revolution in software architecture resulting in ever increasing complexity over the next decade, and that tools using technologies such as those provided by ZealCore will become essential for deploying, debugging, tracking and maintaining these new style applications. Gartner has listed ZealCore as one out of seven “Cool Vendors in Emerging Trends and Technologies” in 2005.

Pressrelease PDF >>

Gartner announcement >>

BlackBox Technology inside UML code generation tools

2005-04-14T19:54:00.000+01:00

2005-04-14

ZealCore starts cooperating with vendor of UML modeling and code generation tools to exploit the synergies of adding BlackBoxes to generated code. BlackBox functionality will be a "button-click" away and UML as well as generated source code debugging of field behavior will be possible.

BlackBox Recorders in telecom systems

2005-03-10T19:53:00.000+01:00

2005-03-10

ZealCore and large vendor of telecom systems start a project to evaluate BlackBox Recording technology in radio controllers and base stations, in order to improve field diagnostics and debugging.

Dynamic Instrumentation

2005-02-28T19:52:00.000+01:00

2005-02-28

No more tedious compile, link load cycles to find that intricate bug. Dynamic instrumentation is a sophisticated way of dynamically patching a running program. This can be used for "on the fly" instrumentation of applications with high availability demands. This is the newest member of the BlackBox product family and adds a new dimension to code instrumentation techniques.

The Blackout

2005-01-20T19:50:00.000+01:00

2005-01-20

The Swedish department of energy has released a report covering the causes and effects concerning the major electrical disruptions that happened in 2003. The big breakdown in Canada and USA was initially caused by a computer software failure... The report is available in Swedish on the following link:

Blackout PDF, Swedish version >>

Auto's Bright Green Future

2005-01-05T19:44:00.000+01:00

2005-01-05

Based on interviews with ZealCore and 20 other companies, forrester releases the first document in the "Automotive Innovation" series about the doubled vehicle population by 2020. Environmental demands and safety concerns will require more intelligent computer systems, which in turn leads to the need of better tools for monitoring and maintaining these new systems. The report is available through the following link:

Forrester, Auto's Bright Green Future >>