IntervalZero - RTX Real-Time Platform for Windows

IntervalZero’s symmetric multiprocessing-enabled RTX, a hard real-time extension to the Windows operating system, is a vital component of a Real-Time Platform that replaces real-time hardware – such as DSPs – with multi-core software components. The RTX platform reduces the complexity and cost of developing embedded systems; increases system performance; and accelerates innovation.

By eliminating proprietary real-time hardware, OEMs are free to build the systems they envision not just the systems that pre-determined hardware configurations can accommodate.

Five elements of the Real-Time Platform combine to deliver system-development cost reductions, increased scalability, better performance, improved quality, product differentiation, and extended market reach:

1. Single Integrated Development Environment

• Maximizes development and support productivity
• System-wide debugging directly improves quality
• Immersive interface leads to superior product differentiation

2. Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Multicore PC Boards

• Standards drive costs down by 25 to 50% for computing
• Staying on x86 doubles performance every 18 months; proprietary hardware limits continuous performance gains

3. Parameter-Driven Scalability for Real-Time “Engine”

• Can move from a 2-core system to a 24-core system without redesign
• Scale up with x86 to create next-generation product

4. Delivers Hardware Independence

• Create new products and revenue by re-hosting from Atom to x86 to x64 to ARM: from one source code base
• Real-time engine could be repurposed for new product moved to a different form factor

5. Pre-tested Components/Drivers/Applications

• Engineering team can focus on adding Intellectual Property
• Many core functions pre-tested and available from 3 rd party, or in SDK