RTX enhances Windows® universally adopted look and feel with features that give developers real-time determinism, better control, unmatched dependability and the ability to:

• Reduce system costs by eliminating the need for customized or specialized real-time hardware platforms
• Improve reliability by reducing number of hardware components
• Speed the time to market through intuitive development tools that easily integrate into standard Windows IDE
• Create scalable and controllable applications with unlimited threads and up to 1000 processes

1. Overview

While developers want the benefits of using Windows® 2000, XP, XPe and Vista - they often require a development and execution environment with traditional Real-Time Operating System features, including high performance, reliability and determinism. RTX provides these capabilities to a Windows® based system on single or multicore processing platforms.

By offering a compliant Win32 API set, RTX application portability is simplified between various Windows® operating systems.


2. Development Tools and RTX Extensions

• RT TCP/IP : High-performance TCP/IP networking for RTX applications. 
• RTX USB : USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 support in the real-time environment. 
• RTX Application Wizard : Comprehensive configuration and management of RTX and real-time application development environment.
• Object Viewer : In depth analysis tool for all real-time application and RTX processes, including threads, objects, interrupts, semaphores, mutexes and timers. 
• TimeView : A real-time timing tool for RTX developers. 
• Platform Evaluator : A software tool to document and characterize the real-time capabilities of a Windows® system with RTX installed.

 3. Key Features

• Common APIs for all Windows® operating systems (2000, XPe, XP Pro and Vista)
• RTX API’s allow direct access to physical memory and the I/O addressing space 
• RTX offers a choice of three configurable clocks with a minimum granularity of 100 microseconds. 
• Uniprocessor and multi-processor hardware support
• Deterministic memory management
• Comprehensive development and integration tools using well-known and standard Windows® IDE
• Choice of Round Robin or Preemptive Schedulers, assignable on a per thread basis
• Priority inversion deadlock avoidance with promotion
• Real-time HAL extender for interrupt isolation, fast timers, and kernel STOP interception
• Real-time TCP/IP stack
• USB SDK with USB 1.1/2.0 host and client support
• Hyper-Threading support
• Physical Address Extension (PAE) support
• Device Driver Wizard - framework for rapid development of RTX device drivers
• Support for up to 1000 processes, each supporting unlimited threads

4. RTX Architecture

RTX Architecture - cklick to enlarge

5. System Requirements 

• Hardware (HAL)
• PC Compatible Eisa/Isa Hal
• ACPI Compatible Eisa/Isa HAL 
• MPS 1.4 - APIC platform HAL 
• ACPI 1.0 - APIC platform MP
• Software
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Embedded with SP5
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server with SP6a
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Professional with SP2
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• IE 5.01 or higher

6. Target Markets

• Industrial Automation
• Telecom
• Test and Measurement
• Medical
• Aerospace and Defense
• Automotive
• Simulation
• And many others

7. Evaluation

If you are interested in evaluating RTX, please contact us.


3. Related Link 

http://www.ardence.com/embedded/products.aspx?ID=70