Over thirty years of technology. And counting.

Dialogicom is a software house founded in 2016, but it carries a technological journey that began with its founder back in 1991. Experience built across embedded systems, electronics, custom software, web, SaaS and, today, AI integration.

We haven't followed trends: we have followed our clients' real problems, building the tools needed to solve them each time.

Salvo De Luca, founder and CEO of Dialogicom
Salvo De LucaFounder & CEO
in technology for over 30 years

Dialogicom is the synthesis of that path: a company built on technical expertise accumulated over more than 30 years. Over time, following market shifts and real client needs, the work expanded from hardware to the web, from expert systems to artificial intelligence.

Today the main focus is on SaaS development, AI integration and complex digital products. Embedded remains part of the work because that expertise roots everything else: those who have designed hardware, where a mistake is costly, understand software systems at a deeper level.

We bring innovation to companies. And if something is needed that doesn't exist yet, we build it.

64K of RAM. Enough for three.

Long before Dialogicom, and even before Dialogos, the founder designed and built his very first computer himself, around a Z80 processor. At first the operating system was CP/M by Digital Research (Pacific Grove, California); a few years later he also introduced MP/M, its multi-user version. Those were the years when Microsoft did not yet exist and the IBM PC was still well in the future.

A young Salvo De Luca, the founder, at his first computer, designed and built by himself, with a Z80 processor and CP/M operating system
Salvo De Luca at work on his first computer, entirely designed and built by himself. Top left you can make out the central unit, made of Eurocard boards he developed and assembled on a modular bus, a design choice that allowed expansion and that, in spirit, anticipated the approach IBM would adopt a few years later with its first personal computer.

That system had 64 KB of RAM (yes, kilobytes) segmented into two 32K blocks: one for the program, the other for files and their handling. With the 5-inch floppy drive seen in the photo, you could instead allocate all 64K to the running program.

On that machine, with those “vast” resources, he wrote a complete warehouse and invoicing system, used concurrently from three terminals over RS232. Almost entirely in Z80 Assembler.

Some time later came a 5 MB hard disk: it cost 7 million lire at the time, a small fortune, as much as a city car. Formatting it alone took about an hour. And once you launched the compiler, there was time to go down to the bar for a coffee and come back before it had finished.

Shall we talk about what you can do today with 64K of RAM and 5 MB of disk?

A line that starts in 1991.

1991

Dialogos

Hardware and software for the first real-time messaging system for public venues, over the X.25 Itapac network. Rechargeable smart card, porthole screen for privacy. Presented at ENADA 1991. To all intents and purposes, the grandfather of WhatsApp.

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2005

Merlino Board

An FPGA-based embedded system with a softcore processor. A development platform for regulated gaming machines, with smart card and gaming-authority compliance handled by the board: the developer was left with just the game.

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Merlino Board: FPGA embedded board with a smart-card reader add-on
The Merlino Board in the smart-card add-on version.
2009

Singularity Board

Evolution of the Merlino Board: FPGA SoPC architecture, 3D graphics processor, dual smart card. More power, the same philosophy: hardware that reprograms itself in software.

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Singularity Board: FPGA embedded board with a JAMMA connector
The Singularity Board in the gaming configuration.
~2012

Expansion to the web

From embedded interfaces to websites, e-commerce and mobile apps. In response to clients who preferred a single technical partner, from device to cloud.

2016

Dialogicom is founded

A new company, the same founder, the same approach: SaaS, e-commerce, portals, gaming, network security, industrial controls.

2017

Expert systems and predictive analytics

AI techniques for sales forecasting and risk analysis. Six years before the ChatGPT boom, when we called AI "expert systems".

Today

From chip to cloud to generative artificial intelligence

SaaS application development, integration of AI models into business workflows, advanced embedded systems, web applications and smartphone apps, custom digital products.

Embedded is the root, not a memory.

We are not a web agency that bolted on a few technical services. We are the opposite: expertise born where a mistake has physical consequences, applied to the rest of the stack. That is the difference you feel when a product has to hold over time, not just at launch.

It is expertise that, over time, has even led us to work with the CNR, Italy's National Research Council, on the electronics supporting fuel cells.

It is the same rigour used to design a circuit that we bring into a SaaS application, an AI integration, a website. One software house, every layer of the stack.

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