/> TenAsys Corporation of Beaverton, Oregon, US is a real-time virtualization expert that specializes in real-time operating system software and virtualization technologies for the PC-based embedded computer industry.

ProConOS 61131 gives user a hard real-time runtime engine with which they can develop a full-featured PLC on PC based hardware. Using INtime RTOS the solution offers multitasking responsiveness in the sub-millisecond range and code execution in the sub microsecond range (1KCode) by means of machine-code created out of the IEC 61131 versatile debugging and monitoring interfaces. All the latest X86 CPU platforms: Intel Core I5, I7 and Atoms processors, allowing users to select from a wide range of processor cost/performance options.

The ProConOS environment also supports KW-Software's Profinet technology, which can be used as IO controller and IO device. Moreover, the Profinet IO stack can serve both at the same time via the same Ethernet port to enable direct data exchange between several Profinet IO controllers. Due to the system?s high-performance software architecture, 100 Profinet IO devices can be handled in one millisecond.

Customers of the integrated solution benefit from a significantly reduced integration effort, shorter development project durations leading to a faster time to market.

KW-Software and its customers have been looking at moving their technology onto PC-compatible hardware and software, said Andreas Orzelski, CEO, KW-Software. INtime for Windows from TenAsys Corporation eases this transition because it has been designed from the beginning to run alongside Windows. It is a proven high performance real-time solution that will easily deal with the accurate real-time requirement of a PLC controller. It supports a wide variety of processors from Intel and the several Windows environments on which our customers can develop, debug and run their ProConOS based solutions.

TenAsys has worked with market leaders like KW-Software to bring customers a tried and proven RTOS that meets the requirements of real-time embedded software applications, said Kim Hartman, VP of Sales and Marketing, TenAsys. INtime is designed to be able to segregate the real-time portion of the control/PLC software from the Windows environment, thus ensuring the integrity and deterministic behavior of the real-time environment. In multicore processor applications, that feature can be applied by running Windows and INtime on separate cores, allowing very high performance control applications to run flawlessly. In addition we are working with KW-Software to integrate their Profinet stack to INtime. This will allow real-time application running on INtime to communicate directly with other control applications where necessary.