Bug hunters show well in business competition

University of Kent spin out UltraSoC Technologies has won second place in the 2006 Research Councils’ Business Plan Competition. Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry, commended UltraSoC for its excellent business pdropositions, adding that ‘science and entrepreneurship are crucial to the health of the UK economy’. UltraSoC is developing technology aimed at making it easier to find and fix bugs in embedded systems. The IP underpinning the technology was originally developed by Dr Klaus McDonald-Maier at the University of Kent. Dr McDonald-Maier said: “We believe our debug support strategy for next generation SoC technology will have enormous benefits in lowering manufacturing costs and improving safety in a wide range of computer and semiconductor applications. Being highly placed in this extremely competitive event demonstrates that others share that vision.”