US Patent Office Issues Software Synthesis Patent to Zeidman Technologies.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Zeidman Technologies, Inc. (www.zeidman.biz), developer of the SynthOS(TM) real-time operating system synthesis tool, has been granted patent number 6,934,947 entitled "Visual Tool for Developing Real Time Task Management Code."

This is a broad patent covering aspects of software synthesis specifically related to automatically generating source code for an operating system. This technology, commercialized in SynthOS, takes the complexity out of writing multitasking systems by allowing a programmer to use high-level, abstract "primitives" to specify how tasks communicate with each other and share resources. The synthesis tool extracts the primitives and inserts code to create and manipulate the appropriate operating system data structures such as semaphores, mutexes, mailboxes, and message queues. The tool also creates an optimized, custom operating system.

"I was working on a firmware project several years ago where we spent many hours debugging intermittent failures at run time. It often turned out that a programmer had forgotten to include code to set or check a mutex," said Bob Zeidman, the inventor and president of Zeidman Technologies. "It was frustrating. When the project was over I looked for a tool to automate the code-writing process and, not finding any, invented one."

"This will be a very important advance in embedded software development," said Jack Grimes, former director at Taligent and advisor to Zeidman Technologies. "Software and hardware developers have been looking for ways to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of writing critical operating system functions. This is especially important for smaller embedded systems. Zeidman Technologies is the first company to commercialize this technology."

SynthOS runs on Windows, Linux, and UNIX. Licenses are available for $20,000 per year for a single machine. Site licenses are available for larger projects.

About Zeidman Technologies

Zeidman Technologies is a developer of software tools for the efficient design of embedded systems. The company has created SynthOS, a powerful new tool that uses software synthesis to automatically generate source code, based on the concept of hardware synthesis. SynthOS can significantly cut development time, optimize the system software, and reduce production hardware costs. The company was founded by industry-leading experts in software and hardware design and is headquartered in San Jose, California. More information about Zeidman Technologies is available at www.zeidman.biz.

SynthOS is a trademark of Zeidman Technologies.