TenAsys Announces Multi-RTOS Support for Windows Systems

Previously, embedded systems requiring multiple real-time OSes and Windows needed to employ multiple independent processor platforms. By consolidating multiple operating environments into a single platform, embedded system suppliers can obtain significant cost savings and improved scalability of processing power.

INtime 4.0's multiple-RTOS feature provides a key advantage over multi-tasking systems employing a single RTOS. Now developers don't have to be burdened with the possibility of multiple, high priority real-time processes interfering with one another. Time-critical processes can be fixed to run on their own cores of a multi-core processor, promoting modular design of real-time systems without the difficulty of resolving priorities between deterministic processes. If processes running on separate cores need to signal one another, INtime 4.0 provides a reliable, deterministic way to do that using shared memory.

“Today’s engine test beds require the highest possible control accuracy,” says Bernhard Hochstrasser, software development engineer for AVL’s Test Bed Automation and Control Systems Business Unit. “We had been pleased with the real-time performance of INtime 3.1, but INtime 4.0 offers us new opportunities to advance our technology. We are now using multiple INtime Cores for shorter control cycles and higher throughput.”

“INtime 4.0 enables embedded system developers to keep pace with the latest in hardware and software technologies so they can ensure their products are competitive, said Kim Hartman, TenAsys VP of Marketing and Sales, and TenAsys, a leader in software virtualization technology for real-time systems, is at the forefront of making this support available for multi-core Intel processor systems.”

INtime 4.0 is a free upgrade for all INtime for Windows customers that are covered by an active TenAsys support contract.