Best Product Award 2008 goes to Kithara

The readers of the professional journal E&E have decided: Winner of the Best Product Award 2008 under the heading "design tools & software" is the »RealTime Suite« of Kithara Software.

It contains new features like preemptive multitasking, real-time Ethernet with TCP/UDP, automation protocol EtherCAT and many other new functions.

As our customers admire our innovative products and improvements the Kithara »RealTime Suite« has been medalled with the title Best Product Award 2008.

The company Kithara Software GmbH located in Berlin was founded in 1996 and has become a specialist for hardware dependent programming, real-time, multi-tasking and communication solutions for the Windows operating systems.

Simply applicable tools allow programmers to realize PCI and USB hardware access as well as the development of real-time solutions using Ethernet and automation with EtherCAT. Basic principle of the product range is moving the usual program code to the kernel-level, where it is executed in real-time. The programmer stays in his usual development environment, like C/C++ or Delphi. Instead of working with a Black Box the user implements the required code from functional libraries into his application. At any time he is in control of the process.

Kithara enhanced real-time capabilities with highly precise timers with a jitter in a range of only a few microseconds, preemptive multitasking with up to 255 priorities, UDP and TCP communication in realtime supplements the well-known functions for hardware-dependent programming with support of user and kernel level for I/O ports and physical memory, interrupts, serial interfaces and USB devices.

The EtherCAT Master has been enhanced by the new Master Monitor.This software program serves as a visualization tool for the connected EtherCAT topologies and simplifies and catalyzes their management. This is an important requirement, because using the functional enhancements, like process and service data communication (PDO/SDO), CANopen over EtherCAT (CoE), Ethernet over EtherCAT (EoE), File over EtherCAT (FoE) and Distributed Clock (DC) the software is used in more complex solutions and drives automation processes in the industry.

Companies are saving therefore time for self-development while having reasonable costs. In order to evaluate the software with all functions, it can be requested for download on the home page of Kithara.