Soft-Control Architecture
Changing the Rules for Embedded OEMs
The Power of a Soft-Control Architecture
Increased Competitiveness and Clear Production Differentiation
- Better yields and throughput on machines of similar footprint
- Same yields and throughput on machines with smaller footprint
- Dramatically increased quality for machines with same footprint
Reduced Cost of 25-50% in the Compute Platform
- Elimination of the additional PC to perform the HMI
- Elimination of proprietary controller and communications cards
- Improved asset utilization – i.e. using available multi-core capacity rather letting it sit idle
Improved Operational Efficiencies and Cost Reduction
- Reduced manufacturing costs and fewer BOM/physical parts
- No need to physically manufacture part
The foundation for a Soft-Control Architecture in hard real-time environments is an Integrated Real-Time Development Platform comprising Microsoft Windows Embedded, multiprocessor x86 architectures, and IntervalZero’s RTX 2009, which provides real-time operating system functionality extension to Windows and enables SMP. OEMs that will benefit most from a Soft-Control Architecture have complex Human-Machine Interfaces require the precise coordination of multiple tasks and the deterministic hard real-time performance capabilities that RTX delivers; and also want to benefit from innovative technologies and industry trends.
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| Key Characteristics of an SMP Embedded Solution |
RTX 2009 SMP | Benefit |
| Single Common Integrated Development Environment & World-Class GUI – Microsoft Windows |  |
Productivity |
| Single Real-time Subsystem Instance Executes Directly On Multiple Assigned Processors | |
Scalability & Maintainability |
| All Resources Visible To All Real Time Processes | |
Control |
| Schedule RT Threads Across Multiple Processors Or Dedicate Certain Logic To Specific Cores | |
Control & Performance |
| Direct Access To Shared Data Without Additional Copies And IPC Usage. | |
Quality & Performance |
| Minimize System Memory Requirements (Footprint/Power Usage) | |
Performance |
| Minimize System Memory Requirements (Footprint/Power Usage) | |
Scalability |
