Semantic Designs

12/24/2021

Dow Chemical renews its annual support contract with Semantic Designs for the 10th year running. SD is providing custom services to continuously enhance its Sequoia reverse engineering tool, that reads Dowtran 1970s legacy factory process control programs, and automatically extracts process-control models from the code. This model is then used to generate controller code for modern controllers. Dow has replaced the legacy controllers/code on several hundred Dow factories, and expects to continue doing this for another 5-10 years.

10/30/2021

We've added AcuCobol to the set of Cobol dialects that DMS can analyze or transform.

09/21/2021

Had spring 2021 project to deliver, to one client, 3 COBOL translators for different COBOL dialects: MicroFocus, Tandem COBOL and Tandem SCOBOL, all converting to C #. 6 million lines of code across the 3 dialects, 99.87% fully automated, including conversion of Tandem proprietary indexed files to SQL, and Tandem screens to React/JS.
(We also do COBOL to Java.)

07/24/2020

Now doing God class refactoring for C++. See www.semdesigns.com/Products/RefactoringTools/SplitInterface.html?site=FaceBook

05/18/2019

Just completed a 100% fully automated conversion of Fujitsu .NET COBOL to C #. 240K SLOC in 6 months.

05/17/2017

Now have a full C++17 front end. See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/FrontEnds/CppFrontEnd.html

C++ Parser/Front End

05/17/2017

Dow Chemical has awarded a contract extension to Semantic Designs, to continue enhancement of the custom model-based code migration tool Dow is using to migrate ~1000 factories. This tool is based on dataflow pattern matching, and recognizes abstract concepts in code by matching wide varieties of realizations of such code. What is good for factory control code, will be good for reverse engineering and program understanding in general. See http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/05/prweb14309535.htm

(PRWEB) May 16, 2017 -- Continued enhancements to Semantic Designed automated migration tools used by The Dow Chemical Company to execute its migrations from proprietary MOD5 control systems for chemical manufacturing plants to standard industry controllers.

01/13/2016

Presented a poster on Design Capture/Recovery at CSESSP2015: Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges workshop: http://www.nitrd.gov/csessp

Here is the poster. http://www.orau.gov/csessp2015/posters/Baxter_Ira.pdf

Ask us about dataflow pattern matching (basic for design recovery in poster, and basis of Dow Chemical plant model extraction)