Zebor Technology

Zebor Technology´s platform is suitable in all kind of embedded computer systems based on the Intel x86 architecture which can be found in almost all electronics today such as set-top boxes, in car entertainment systems and in industrial robots, often based on standard computer boards.

Zebor Technology’s focus is on delivering high-performance, power-efficient multimedia-enabled embedded computer systems

ZBIOS is an embedded system BIOS and manages hardware automatically instead of depending on user interaction through setup menus. This makes more sense for embedded systems since many boards lacks support for a keyboard and display.

ZBIOS has also been optimized for high performance, yielding the shortest possible boot time, a most needed feature for many embedded applications

ZBIOS excels in disk I/O which dramatically decreases the time spent booting an OS. As an example, our floppy disk emulator used for CD-ROM/DVD booting reads data more than 53 times faster on a 133MHz 486-based board when compared to a 1.5GHz Athlon XP with a standard BIOS. BIOS also supports reading, writing and verifying of up to 255 sectors in one BIOS call on any media, a feature not supported by any competitors at this time. A boot loader taking advantage of this feature will further reduce the time spent booting.

ZBIOS ZDOS is a 32-bit real time OS for the X86 CPU family, written entirely in assembly language for maximum performance. ZDOS was developed as a 32-bit replacement of 16-bit DOS, but with modern features like multi tasking, demand paging, SMP etc..

As a BIOS vendor we also integrated a complete 32-bit BIOS within ZDOS, in order to restore the power users had in the old, good DOS days. With ZDOS you can do every thing you used to do, but now in a full 32-bit, multitasking environment. You can create 32-bit, multi tasking processes with a lot of threads, invoking safe reentrant 32-bit BIOS and DOS API calls.

Compatibility

ZDOS is fully backward compatible with 16-bit applications using BIOS and DOS APIs. These BIOS and DOS calls are handled entirely by 32-bit code, leaving more memory available between 640K to 1MB, since ZDOS maps locations used by the 16-bit BIOSes to upper memory blocks.

Old 16-bit applications runs in their own virtual machines in parallell with 32-bit processes.

Development tools

ZDOS comes bundled with the Open Watcom tool chain and includes everything needed to develop applications in C, C++ and assembler.

For your convenience, the tool chain can be run in both ZDOS and Windows host environments.

Our powerful C run time libraries, covering every 32-bit BIOS, DOS or kernel function are also included as a complement to the standard libraries.

The source level debugger can be run remotely using TCP/IP, UART or other connections.

As Open Watcom is open software, you will have full source on the complete tool chain, including our custom run time libraries.

Performance

ZDOS will outperform any of the 32-bit operating systems on the market today. In fact ZDOS is more than 10 times faster than the fastest of our competitors products.

With ZDOS you are able to get more work done on a 100MHz CPU than our competitors on a 1GHz CPU. ZDOS reduces product cost as slower CPUs and support circuits are much cheaper than faster ones.

You can also use ZDOS on a very fast CPU, to do things not possible with other operating systems.

For more information, please contact us at info@zebor.com.