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 Why is Industrial Embedded so riddled with tedious boot-times, bulky software and old patchwork of solutions? How much time do we spend just trying to reduce the size and the demands of heavy Operating Systems, to get down to some sort of usable base? Why doesn’t anyone do what’s needed and flip this whole thing – start from the bottom up, and create a small, fast and efficient embedded solution? We’re Zebor Technology and we have more than 20 years experience in the Industrial Embedded area, having created and implemented both the software and hardware in projects ranging from Banking to Military applications, to Government and Multimedia. And you know what? We’ve never used existing software. Instead, we have based all our applications on two pieces of standard x86 software. First, there’s ZBIOS. Our standard x86 BIOS, that is really nothing but standard. With a full boot, including POST in just 0,8 seconds on as low as a 486-board with 133MHz, full read/write and verify on all 255 sectors and fully embedded start-up and setup – ZBIOS boots anything we want in the blink of an eye. |
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Then there’s ZDOS. But don’t let the name fool you. Sure, it is DOS-compatible (except the 640kB memory limit), but this really Linux on both a diet, and steroids at the same time. Or how does Real-Time, 32-bit, Multitasking, Multithreading and Multi-processor-capability sound out of an Operating System that totals just 134kB in size.
134kB? That’s right. And how big is the BIOS? 64kB. You got it – All your applications, including the BIOS and the OS now fit on the standard 512kB flash memory of any x86 board. Oh, and the learning-curve. Sure, this is a new Operating System, but the programming languages are the same as you are used to. You’re probably used to working in C, C++ or Assembler. Those are the languages ZDOS uses too. |