Realtime extensions windows

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Food production. Special machines. The Windows 10 platform is actually a scalable family of OS products that includes the Windows 10 IoT Core, a tiny software package targeted at resource-constrained connected devices.

Along with the OS itself, Windows 10 IoT Core and the rest of the Windows 10 family provides developers with services and APIs that work across multiple hardware platforms, including and bit compute architectures. This support is critical for interoperability amid the use of multiple protocols and OS platforms.

The OS also protects connected devices from cyber threats and malicious attacks by providing security features such as secure boot and BitLocker disk encryption. While Windows CE offers real-time processing, it is mired in challenges originating from an incoherent relationship with standard Windows for instance, due to user interaction and development tools specific to the Windows CE platform.

For applications such as medical systems, where seconds matter and determinism is critical, developers need a solution. RTX6 is a self-contained real-time subsystem RTSS that is fully independent of the Windows kernel and bypasses the Windows scheduler to facilitate determinism and hard real-time response Figure 1. A Windows program can therefore interact with the real-time part on two levels — kernel level and user level — via the real-time APIs provided by the RTX64 software. This is a key feature because over the last several years, Linux has become the most widely used operating system for industrial real-time applications.

This means that developers can use all of the popular tools and packages already available from the open source community for Linux and not need to learn a new proprietary RTOS. The use of Linux as the RTOS within a Windows real-time extension makes perfect sense for industrial applications that need real-time behavior.

In , as the development of real-time Linux became more and more popular, the Linux Foundation took over the management of the project to push the main-line Linux kernel itself into a real-time operating system.

This goal is expected to finally be realized sometime later this year or in More information can be found at the Real Time Linux project website.

Acontis is in a unique position to see the trend for industrial applications and the operating systems that are most widely used. Our EtherCAT Master software, EC-Master , that today supports over 25 different operating systems, typically needs to run in a real-time operating system for best and fastest performance.

We also see this trend in the broader industrial market beyond just EtherCAT applications. Each processor can be operated in realtime task-cluster as a single shot or periodic mode, with a frequency up to KHz. The realtime extension, based on the asynchronous X-Realtime technology forms the base of all further libraries and enables the development of applications, e.

The X-Realtime engine works without any additional hardware under Windows and allows realtime multitasking to 10 microseconds cycle period with the lowest jitter performance. The X-Reatime Engine has multi-processor support, and can be used for versatile application and driver projects.

The access to the hardware resources can be made directly from the application level in realtime. Whether IO port, mapped memory, timers or interrupts, all hardware resources are accessable deterministicly in contrary to a driver solution. Applications in the measurement, control and transmission technology with high data transfer rates and lowest response times are best examples for the application of the realtime extension.

Just at the critical platform - CPU combinations of notebooks, the realtime extension shows its strengths. The combination of three methods, depending on the platform, a jitter of less than 10 microseconds can be achieved.