Benefits of time-triggered technology
Products and tools from TTE Systems Ltd are based on time-triggered (“TT”) technology. We provide some background on TT technology on this page, plus some links to sources of further information.
Why work with TT architectures?
Tools for the creation of high-reliability embedded systems have focussed historically on safety-critical markets (e.g. the aerospace, medical and automotive industries), where system failures can have fatal consequences. These markets remain important, but embedded processors now also have an enormous impact in much broader areas of product development, including relatively simple consumer applications such as washing machines and set-top boxes. Manufacturers now wish to maximise the reliability of all such systems in order to reduce the cost of warranty repairs, minimise product recalls and ensure repeat orders.
When developing high-reliability embedded systems, the benefits of time-triggered (TT) technology are widely recognised, which is why this approach has been used in the aerospace industry for some 30 years. However, the cost of developing TT designs has put this technology out of the reach of many developers. Now - after more than a decade of research (and several patent applications) - the advent of the cost-effective RapidiTTy™ family means that the benefits of TT technology are available for use in a much wider range of applications.
Our experience is that the patent-protected RapidiTTy™ product suites and toolboxes from TTE Systems can enable developers with little previous experience or knowledge of TT technology to create, debug and optimise reliable embedded applications very quickly, resulting in a shorter time to market and reduced development and testing costs.
Want to know more about TT technology?
- We have created some pages which provide some further information about the benefits of time-triggered technology, as well as some more advanced topics.
- If you are not familiar with phrases such as “firmware” and “deeply embedded systems”, we’ve created a foundations page which may answer some of your questions.
Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems
If you want to explore some simple time-triggered (TT) architectures in more depth, “PTTES” is a good starting point. It illustrates how you can create a range of reliable embedded systems with minimal resource requirements using a TT approach.
“PTTES” can be downloaded in PDF form (free of charge) from the PTTES download page.
The code examples for “PTTES” are available (also free of charge) from the PTTES download page.