Integrated Systems

Real-Time Systems

Technology Selection

Not all PC’s, motherboards, and single board computers (SBCs) are suitable for every real-time application.  Our team is continuously benchmarking the latest hardware offerings and can provide guidance to ensure that the delivered solution will meet your requirements.

There is a virtually endless array of IO interface boards available on the computer board market.  Even when a computer board meets its published specification (often they don’t), how that board performs under real-time load varies widely from board to board.  What is the computational load associated with performing read/writes on a given board?  Once your system is assembled with all devices reading/writing and serial communication scheduled, packed/unpacked, and made available for inspection and override, will you still have enough time in your real-time frame to execute your simulation or your control code?

Evaluating commercially available products, understanding your application requirements, and designing a COTS solution that matches your balance between performance and budget is what our Hardware Solutions Team brings to the table as your technology partner.

Custom Solutions

Applied Dynamics is a full-service solutions provider and we’re ready to help make your next project successful.  With each real-time system we deliver, we provide end-to-end value that includes:

• Collaboration with your team to achieve the right system specification
• Hardware design and documentation
• Procurement, assembly, and integration
• Device drivers and logical devices for easy connection to your models or code
• System connectivity documentation
• Factory acceptance testing and test documentation

Depending on your project needs and budget, we can also provide:

• Project design reviews
• Custom circuit, electrical, cabling, and other design services
• Project management
• Alignment and documentation to your quality processes
• Site acceptance testing and installation
• Integration services and a range of other services

rtX

The rtX is a high-performance, standards-based, open-architecture, real-time system for hardware-in-the-loop simulation, controller prototyping, and test applications. The rtX features the latest Intel multi-core processors for the primary computational power. A wide range of PCI, PXI, PCIe, and other off-the-shelf IO interface cards may be used to customize each rtX real-time system.

As of ADEPT V10, the rtX supports both an open-source, Real-Time Linux OS and the high-performance POSIX-compliant QNX RTOS. The rtX combined with the ADEPT Framework provides a complete, integrated solution for development, integration, and verification testing.

rtX Models

Name	Image	Slots / Types	Cores	Processor	Power Supply	Size
rtX Quad Core – rtX MX-4P-6 RM		3 PCIe, 3 PCI	4	Intel Xeon 2.5GHz E5-2609	650W	7″x17″x22″
rtX Eight Core – rtX MX-8P-5 RM		3 PCIe, 3 PCI	8	Intel Xeon 3.3GHz E5-2667	650W	7″x17″x22″
rtX PXI-MX-2		14 PXI Slots	2	Intel® Core™2 Duo T7500 2.2 GHz	500W	7″x17.5″x18.5″(incl. handles)

rtX-V

The rtX-V is a high-performance, standards-based, open-architecture, real-time system for hardware-in-the-loop simulation, controller prototyping, and test applications.  The rtX-V is a VME-based solution that features Intel multi-core VME single board computers (SBCs) for the primary computational power.  A wide range of VME, PMC, and IP off-the-shelf IO interface cards may be used to customize each rtX-V real-time system.

As of ADEPT V10, the rtX-V supports both an open-source, Real-Time Linux OS and the high-performance POSIX-compliant QNX RTOS. The rtX-V combined with the ADEPT Framework provides a complete, integrated solution for development, integration, and verification testing.

rtX-V Models

Open Hardware

As of V10, ADEPT now supports ARM-based processors running the Linux OS!

The Open Hardware solutions, combined with the ADEPT Framework, provide a complete, integrated solution for development, integration, and testing.

Open Hardware Models

Name	Image	Main Processor	Additional
BeagleBone-Black		AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8	512MB DDR3 RAM 4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage 3D graphics accelerator NEON floating-point accelerator 2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
BeagleBone-Blue		Octavo Systems OSD3358	AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor 512MB DDR3 RAM 4GB 8-bit eMMC flash storage Integrated power management 2×32-bit 200-MHz programmable real-time units (PRUs) NEON floating-point accelerator ARM Cortex-M3
BeagleBone-X15		TI AM5728 2×1.5-GHz ARM® Cortex-A15	2GB DDR3 RAM 4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage 2D/3D graphics and video accelerators (GPUs) 2×700-MHz C66 digital signal processors (DSPs) 2×ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers (MCUs) 4×32-bit programmable real-time units (PRUs)

Controllers

The ADEPT Framework can be layered on a virtually limitless range of commercially available single board computers (PCI-104, AMC modules, etc.) to create a solution for controller prototyping or deployment that meets your exact needs.  With an ADvantage controller solution, Applied Dynamics can assist with hardware component selection, signal conditioning circuit design, mechanical design, system procurement and integration, and testing… or you can do-it-yourself.  To discuss your real-time controller requirements with an application engineer, please contact us.

Interface Boards

The ADEPT Framework supports a wide range of IO boards supplied by industry-leading computer board manufacturers.  Refer to our Product Index for a listing of supported IO boards.  If you don’t find a board of interest listed, please contact us.  We are constantly supporting new IO interface boards and update the Supported IO periodically.  If there is an IO board you would like to use in your solution, we can nearly always add support for your project.  We also offer a DDK so you can write ADEPT drivers on your own.