real time windows

RTX provides functionality that gives developers deterministic control of Windows-based systems that require a high level of performance and scalability. This real-time control solution allows developers to reduce system costs, improve reliability, speed the time to market and increase the performance of their applications.

Ardence RTX 7.0, with continued support of multi-core architectures, introduces a powerful new feature for RTX developers – support for Host/Target debugging using Visual Studio 2005 and .Net 2003. Host/Target debugging allows the debugging of an RTSS application on target hardware running an RTX runtime environment from a development system. Host/Target debugging includes a debug agent that resides on the target and provides Ethernet-based communications back to the host machine running the debugger.

Additional features introduced in RTX version 7.0 include:

Windows Server 2003 Support
RTX 7.0 now fully supports Windows® Server 2003 in both shared mode and dedicated mode. In shared mode, RTX Subsystem shares one processor with Windows, and in dedicated mode RTX Subsystem has a dedicated processor unavailable to Windows. Both shared and dedicated modes were tested with Windows Server 2003 on high-end server platforms. Testing platforms included a 4 dual core CPU system with hyper-threading disabled and eight GB of RAM. RTX Server 2003 support includes both Standard and Enterprise versions, with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Release 2 (R2) for those versions.

Visual Studio 2005 Support
Use of consistent and well-known development tools has been a hallmark of RTX since its inception. The RTX software development kit (SDK) was conceived and designed from the beginning as a plug-in to the Microsoft Visual Studio development tool set. RTX 7.0 provides support for the latest Microsoft IDE, Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 support includes wizards to configure project settings and provides templates for common RTSS functionality. RTSS and RT-TCP/IP debugging support (local or Host/Target), and Intellisense to support F1 Help within the IDE.

PerformanceView
PerformanceView provides the developer with a true view of overall system CPU utilization. PerformanceView provides two graphs: one detailing RTX, Windows and system idle time CPU utilization, and a second showing the maximum time spent in RTX in the last sample period to flag instances which exceed a specified threshold highlighted for easy identification.

RTX Debugger Data Extension
RTX Debugger Data Extension provides increased visibility into RTX internal data structures through a set of extension commands. These are accessible through Microsoft’s WinDbg and the Visual Studio IDE (.NET 2003 and 2005). Extension commands can obtain the state of RTX processes, threads, memory information, process handles, objects and RTX subsystems, as well the RTX version.
RTX is deployed widely in industrial automation, military and aerospace, simulation, robotics, test and measurement and medical devices. As a COTS-based software solution, RTX can enable the elimination of costly and aging proprietary hardware-based systems. Evaluation versions of RTX can be downloaded at no cost from our online shop.