Advanced debug

UltraSoC Technologies has raised £400,000 of equity investment from the South East Seed Fund, managed by Finance South East, and the Iceni Seedcorn Fund.

The company was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the universities of Kent and Essex and is based on research carried out by Prof Klaus McDonald-Maier and Dr Andrew Hopkins and their team. Research and development will continue at Essex’s Colchester Campus.

The funds will be used to develop and market UltraDebug: a multi-processor system-on-chip (SoC) debug support platform.

UltraDebug will enable the embedded systems industry to create more advanced and reliable products in markets such as automotive and consumer devices.

The potential impact of such advanced debug facilities is considerable as, typically, more than half the cost of product development is spent on debugging and verification of embedded systems. The impact of product failure on the economy is estimated to be more than $60bn (£42bn) a year in the US alone.