acontis technologies is a leading provider for EtherCAT Technology, Windows real-time software and Real-Time Virtualization/Hypervisor Technology. We are known for high quality products "Made in Germany". Many blue chip customers world-wide use our products.
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EtherCAT® is likely the world’s most popular Industrial Ethernet Communication Technologies. EtherCAT®—commonly referred to as the Ethernet Fieldbus— is increasingly popular in automation technology due to its extremely short cycle times, low jitter, high data-througput, ease-of-use and low hardware costs. EtherCAT® is suitable for use-cases with hard or soft real-time requirements, making it a popular choice among developers for applications such as robotics, machine tools, test and measurement, and automation technology. The EC-Master Software Development Kit (SDK), a leading EtherCAT® communication product from acontis technologies, is a full-featured EtherCAT® MainDevice implementation. The EC-Master is compliant with EtherCAT® Master Classes Directive (ETG.1500) and is comes in many ready-to-run adoptions for many operating systems and compilers. EC-Master is available for a wide variety of Intel processors and Ethernet Network Controllers. Many market-leading companies worldwide rely on acontis' EtherCAT® technologies for reliable, optimum, and competitive solutions in industries such as semiconductor tool makers, automation controllers, aerospace and defense, and medical devices.
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Linux is the most popular real-time operating system. Due to its deterministic hard real-time behavior, sophisticated development tools and broad hardware-driver and software support, it is used by leading manufacturers of industrial controllers. Typical applications include PLC, motion control and numeric control systems that have high real-time requirements.The LxWin hypervisor permits to run Windows and an extremely fast, embedded real-time Linux in parallel. Plenty Linux drivers, e.g. for fieldbus interfaces, GigE camera systems, communication stacks (EtherCAT, Profinet, OPC, OPC UA, TSN, ...) as well as software solutions such as CNC controller or software PLCs for RT-Linux can directly be used without any change when using LxWin.LxWin is the way to consolidate any current solution which was so far split into 2 different parts on several computers - e.g. consolidating a Windows-based HMI and a Linux-based controller on one single hardware. The LxWin architecture allows easy usage of Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio for software development.With the perfect real-time performance and consolidation of two operation systems onto one hardware, LxWin is a perfect choice for machine controllers and similar - e.g. to combine motion control with HMI functionality.
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The acontis Type 1 real-time hypervisor is an optional and independent enhancement of the Type 2 real-time hypervisor solutions for Windows. This solution enables customers to fulfil demands for more sophisticated use cases and it is a perfect fit for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices, edge controllers, and high-end real-time hardware and workload consolidation. The RTOSVisor combines the existing virtual machine hypervisor technology for real-time operating systems (RTOS VM), with the industry standard Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor for standard operating systems with acontis' existing, industry proven real-time virtualization technology, multiple hard real-time operating systems (Real-time Linux, VxWorks, etc.) can run in native speed. With the addition of KVM to this solution, multiple standard operating systems like Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.) can operate in parallel. KVM offers virtual hardware access, as well as para-virtualization for improved performance. For best performance, KVM supports hardware passthrough of PCI, USB, and VGA devices. Each guest OS is fully independent and separate and can be restarted, or completely shutdown, while the other guests continue without being affected. The RTOS Virtual Machine hypervisor technology provides an independent layer to run any RTOS in native speed. There is no virtualization overhead introduced and all RTOS drivers, the operating systems and event the applications have direct and fast hardware access. This RTOS VM hypervisor technology is successfully used by customers all over the world for more than 10 years. The new acontis hypervisor solution utilizes this exact same RTOS VM technology without any modifications, so existing customer applications can be used without needing to update or change anything. Key technical features: The RTOSVisor is the perfect synthesis of the widely used KVM virtualization solution and the industry proven RTOS virtual machine hypervisor for real-time operating systems. General supports multiple operating systems: Real-time Linux, VxWorks® RTOS, On Time RTOS-32, Standard Linux, Microsoft® Windows®, proprietary Roll-your-own, bare metal, any unmodified OSRTOS containers including applications run on bare metal core with no virtualization overhead and direct hardware access, fully separated and independent guest operation, user defined guest startup sequence utilize any number of CPU cores per single guest, independent reboot of all guests while others continue operation, virtual networking between all guests, Inter-OS communication: Shared memory, events, interlocked data access, pipes, message queues and real-time sockets for high speed application level communication, hypervisor provided fileserver for all guests, RTOS-VM ,multiple real-time operating systems (Linux, VxWorks, On Time RTOS-32, bare-metal, etc). Fast real-time interrupt handling and short thread latencies, direct hardware access with no virtualization overhead .Compatible with the existing acontis Windows real-time solutions (applications can be shared or cross-migrated between both solutions)KVM, Standard Windows (7, 8, 10) and Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Debian etc.) run under control of the KVM hypervisor. This hypervisor provides many sophisticated features: Multiple Windows and/or standard Linux instances ,Windows/Linux containers with snapshot support to easily switch between different application situations without the need to install multiple OS instances. Snapshots create a view of a running virtual machine at a given point in time. Multiple snapshots can be saved and used to return to a previous state, in the event of a problem. Passthrough support: To increase performance, devices for USB, Ethernet, and/or Graphics (GPU) can be completely passed through to the standard Windows or Linux guests Para virtualization: Para-virtualized devices for the hard disk, the ethernet or graphics controller reduce the amount of necessary hardware without compromising through put graphics virtualization to provide 3D accelerated graphics to multiple guests.