INtime 4.0 Real-time OS for Windows Combine determinism and real-time tasks with standard Windows platforms.

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1 I N t i m e 4. 0 D a t a s h e e t INtime 4.0 Real-time OS for Windows Combine determinism and real-time tasks with standard Windows platforms. INtime Features Field-proven RTOS for 30 years Provides multiple real-time application kernels Wide range of hardware and networking services provided Binary-compatible with previous versions of the INtime RTOS Windows has become the standard for implementing human machine interfaces (HMIs) and for other general purpose operating system (GPOS) functions, but Windows alone cannot provide deterministic support for real-time application needs. Add determinism and hard real-time tasks to Windows INtime is an RTOS that provides real time services to the Windows platform. By dedicating one or more processor cores to specific, real-time tasks, INtime 4.0 enables embedded systems to separate deterministic processes from Windows task management, maximizing system performance and enabling 100% reliability. Save development, manufacturing, and maintenance costs with INtime 4.0 By combining real-time and Windows applications on a single platform, redundant hardware is eliminated, saving manufacturing and component costs. Software development and maintenance are made easier because the same Visual Studio tools can be used for development and debugging of INtime and Windows applications. Legacy distributed RTOS system versus integrated INtime 4.0 solution Legacy loosely-coupled system INtime consolidates real-time and Windows on multi-core. Traditional RTOS applications consisted of a PC running Windows, loosely coupled to other computers with real-time OSes. With INtime 4.0, real-time OS(es) and Windows run side-by-side on the same multi-core processor.

2 I N t i m e 4. 0 D a t a s h e e t Cut development and support costs with a unified design environment. INtime uses the same Visual Studio tools as Windows application development and debug. INtime Overview Run INtime alongside Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server, and Embedded Fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2008, and 2005 for all edit, compile, link, and debug tasks Binary-compatible with previous versions of the INtime RTOS Familiar development environment INtime applications are edited, compiled and debugged using the same Microsoft Visual Studio tools you currently use to build standard Windows applications. There is no need to purchase or learn how to use additional development tools. Visual Studio project wizards guide you through key design decisions to automatically generate code. Integration with the online help system ensures quick access to the details of the INtime real-time API. The INtime real-time programming environment includes a native RTOS API as well as a subset of Win32 API designed to help ease the process of porting existing Windows code to the INtime environment. Porting legacy real-time code is also simple, in all cases. Any.NET language may also be used to create the Windows part of an INtime application. The INtime software development kit features the NTX interface library for signalling and sharing data using shared memory between Windows and the real-time objects in your system. Interactive application development using Visual Studio, INtime Explorer, and INscope Timing Analyzer Integrated real-time debugger Real-time processes and variables are monitored and debugged using the Visual Studio source-level debugger. Real-time developers have access to the most powerful features of the Visual Studio debugger, including conditional breakpoints, variable and register inspection, source-level stepping, watch variables. Debugging can be performed locally or remotely, for the added convenience of debugging real-time applications directly on your workstation or on a remote machine accessible via the network. The integrated debugger also takes you directly to debugging user mode real-time faults generated as the result of divide-by-zero errors, bad pointer accesses, page faults, stack faults, and other CPU exceptions.

3 INtime Library Features Standard libraries for C, C++, PCI, and sockets Real-time Shared Libraries (RSLs) to build loadable real-time libraries INtime I/O Features Real-time TCP/IP network stack based on FreeBSD v7 operates independently of the Windows network stack DHCP, BPF (Berkeley Packet Filtering), and INtime virtual Ethernet supported High-performance Ethernet interface for direct control of packet delivery Real-time USB stack supports OHCI, UHCI and EHCI controllers Direct hi-speed access to all I/O and memory-mapped hardware Full C and C++ support The INtime C99-compatible C library and ANSI C++ library include full support for STL. An INtime RtClass library provides a C++ interface to standard real-time objects. PCI & PCI Express access library INtime applications can easily discover and configure PCI devices for real-time control. Shared real-time libraries: RSLs INtime real-time shared libraries are similar to Windows DLLs. RSLs provide a means for multiple real-time processes to share a single real-time code library. Comprehensive SSE library Utilizing the Intel Integrated Performance Primitives library (IPP), developers can quickly implement a variety of signal processing functions on the INtime real-time platform. Dynamic object browser: INtex INtime Explorer gives the developer a convenient way to see and interact with the state of processes, threads, and objects while real-time continues running. Real-time system analysis: INscope The INtime real-time performance analyzer, INscope, facilitates acquisition of precise time and sequence data of real-time threads. INscope is a Windows application that is used to trace the execution of a real-time application. The precise timing of real-time events including thread switches, system library calls, and interrupts is displayed on a logic-analyzer type graphical trace. INscope includes an API to add custom events to the trace log and precisely control trace trigger points. The INscope API can be used to verify operation of time-critical code, as well as proper sequencing of real-time events.

4 Resource allocation and INtime device configuration tool Flexible real-time interrupt isolation The INtime Device Manager simplifies the process of allocating interrupts between the Windows and real-time environments. It supports APIC and MSI interrupt sources and ensures flexibility to isolate hardware for real-time use. Real-time access to TCP/IP networks With INtime 4.0, network connectivity has gotten easier. INtime s TCP/ IP support is derived from the stable, FreeBSD 7 environment, providing sockets, protocol layer 2 access and Berkeley packet filtering. Diagnostic tools such as TCPdump are provided to readily capture and display realtime network data. INtime real-time applications have direct access to a TCP/IP stack without requiring Windows as an intermediary, and can use a standard sockets API to communicate with dedicated Ethernet hardware. With BPF, Ethernet packets are directly accessible at the driver interface. Developers are able to bypass the TCP/IP stack and tailor the number, size, type, and delivery times of Ethernet packets to meet specific application needs. Industrial I/O drivers Custom or third-party DeviceNet, PROFIBUS, CANopen, ControlNet, EtherCAT, and other industrial communication protocols can be easily incorporated into INtime applications, as can SATA disk drives. Real-time applications always have direct highspeed access to I/O. There is no requirement to learn difficult kernel-mode debugging techniques or create unique device drivers in order to access specialized I/O hardware. USB client development support A real-time USB stack supports all three standard USB host controller interfaces: OHCI, UHCI and EHCI. Using this stack, INtime applications can directly utilize USB I/O devices for real-time data acquisition and control. The INtime software development kit includes components and examples to enable the creation of USB client software.

5 I N t i m e 4. 0 D a t a s h e e t Cut system costs by consolidating real time and Windows platforms. INtime leverages Intel processor architecture for maximum performance and reliability. INtime 4.0 Features Asymetric multi-core processor (AMP) support allocate up to 31 real-time cores for exclusive use by INtime Precise hi-resolution system timer for fast control loops 50 μseconds Support for MSI interrupts and PCI Express peripherals Mailboxes, semaphores, alarms, regions and shared-memory for IPC Exploits Intel SSE instructions directly or by using Intel IPP library for real-time DSP functions Optimized memory allocation libraries including debug API Reliable microsecond performance and determinism INtime software delivers accurate and repeatable microsecond-level response without compromising the safety, security, reliability or performance of your system. Using the INtime protected mode programming model, our real-time applications execute in user mode (ring 3), just like Windows applications, for maximum protection. Competing solutions require real-time applications to run completely unprotected inside the Windows kernel (ring O) where errors like bad pointers, stack overruns and page faults compromise the stability of both the real-time environment and the Windows environment. This is never the case if your real-time application runs on INtime. Replace expensive special-purpose processors with a dedicated processor core Rather than allocating time-critical tasks to an expensive DSP board, you can run multiple instances of INtime 4.0 on dedicated cores and provide the same functions as multiple CPU boards, optimizing the cost of your hardware and software engineering resources. Further, by utilizing the Intel IPP library with your INtime applications, the only RTOS compatible with the IPP library, you can implement DSP-like functionality quickly, and take full advantage of Intel MMX and SSE (SIMD instructions) for DSP-level performance. Shared-memory objects facilitate low-cost communication Using shared-memory to communicate between cores eliminates the expense and complexity of extra hardware. INtime includes a full API to implement shared global objects for exchange of signals and shared-memory objects, resulting in very efficient and low-cost communication (data passing and signaling) between dedicated processor cores. The transfer of data between applications on different cores is signaled quickly and reliably via interprocessor interrupts (IPIs). Multi-core multiplies performance One or more cores of a multi-core processor can now support an instance of the INtime RTOS, with the remaining cores hosting Windows. By allowing you to use your legacy software and dedicating cores to specific real-time tasks, such as high-bandwidth motion control or image processing, embedded systems can do more with less hardware, without sacrificing performance and determinism.

6 System requirements Minimum requirements for a Windows PC-compatible host running INtime: At least 16MB of DRAM available for dedicated INtime + real-time application usage Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Embedded Standard (Windows XP Embedded), Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2008, 2005 Standard Edition (or higher) Any Intel or AMD processor that runs Windows including single-core, multicore and hyper-threaded processors Ethernet adapters supported: Intel Pro100, Intel Pro 1000, Realtek 100, Realtek 1000, Broadcom 1000* * Visit the TenAsys website or contact us directly for information regarding device driver availability. Ordering information INTIME4-DK-HWKEY (INtime Development Kit) Development license for use on a single Windows computer and two development target run-time licenses. Includes all INtime libraries and APIs; installation and configuration tools; Windows-based performance monitoring, debug and characterization tools; Microsoft Visual Studio wizards, on-line help and debugger plug-in; real-time C/C++ libraries and headers; and numerous sample applications. Also includes one year technical support and maintenance agreement. Support and maintenance for subsequent years available (INTIME-DK-MAINT). INTIME4-DK-NETSRV (INtime Network Development Kit) INtime software development license and development target run-time licenses (see INTIME4-DK-HWKEY for content details) configured as a floating network license for six networked development workstations with twelve target run-time licenses. Additional seats available with INTIME4-DK-ADDNET. INTIME-RT and INTIME-MCRT (INtime Production Run-Time Licenses) One license is required for each INtime kernel deployed. INTIME-RT for single instance of INtime kernel on system, INTIME-MCRT for multiple instances of INtime kernel on the same system. Volume pricing available with signed redistribution agreement. real-time virtualization experts 30 y ears TenAsys Corporation 1400 NW Compton Drive, #301 Beaverton, OR USA +1 (503) fax +1 (503) info@tenasys.com Copyright 2009 TenAsys Corporation.TENASYS, INTIME, EVM and IRMX are registered trademarks of TenAsys Corporation. Other trademarks and brand names are the property of their respective owners