Semantic Designs Source Code Search Engine

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Character sets

Supported character encodings include ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Unicode, Shift-JIS, EBCDIC and Microsoft code pages.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Company profile on LinkedIn

LinkedIn identifies Semantic Designs as a privately held Austin software-development company founded in 1995 with 11–50 employees.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Cross-language search

Generic identifiers and literals can be searched across multiple programming languages in one session.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Custom scanners

Semantic Designs offers configurable scanners for unusual languages, dialects and structured text.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Developer API

Semantic Designs front ends expose procedural APIs to visit, query, update, construct and print syntax trees, with support for custom attribute-grammar analyses.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Evaluation limitations

The evaluation is limited to 10,000 lines; the maker says a production license can enable full capability but does not state its price on the page.semanticdesigns.com · read 8 Oct 2026

Evaluation restrictions

The evaluation agreement prohibits copying, modification, decompilation, reverse engineering and redistribution, and supplies the software without warranties.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Evaluation terms

The evaluation requires completing a registration form; the maker emails a download link, and the evaluation agreement says the license ends 90 days after download.semanticdesigns.com · read 8 Oct 2026

Extensibility

Front-end source code is available for customization, and the Source Code Search Engine is shown as a sample tool using the front-end technology.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Federal contract history

The U.S. SBIR profile records Semantic Designs Inc. as receiving nine Phase I and one Phase II awards totaling about $1.8 million.sbir.gov · read 14 Oct 2026

Independent legal record

Justia lists Semantic Designs, Inc. as the corporation owning the registered SEMANTIC DESIGNS mark for computer consulting and custom software design services.trademarks.justia.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Independent research reference

A PLDI 2020 paper describes Semantic Designs' Sequoia tool as using graph-pattern matching and having helped migrate control software for dozens of chemical plants.jameskoppel.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Indexing workflow

Source files are collected, scanned and indexed periodically, with daily or weekly indexing suggested by the product page.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Integration

Search results can be produced in XML for communication with other graphical user interfaces; the page illustrates an interface developed for IBM Rational Development for System Z.semanticdesigns.com · read 8 Oct 2026

Integration output

Search results can be emitted as XML for use by other graphical interfaces, including an interface shown for IBM Rational Development for System Z.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Language-aware queries

Queries can target identifiers, literals, operators, strings, comments and statements through language-specific scanners.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

Language coverage

The maker lists scanners for languages including ABAP, C, C++, COBOL, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL dialects, and XML, with additional beta scanners and custom scanner options.semanticdesigns.com · read 8 Oct 2026

License type

The software is proprietary object-code software distributed under a revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable and nonsublicensable license.semanticdesigns.com · read 14 Oct 2026

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