Windows + INtime Node Architecture
In order to let the real-time environment operate with Windows, additional software is necessary on the host:
Context switching (only for Shared mode): management of the concurrent operation of both Windows and the real-time kernel is done by the Windows/INtime interface encapsulating the operating systems. This interface is one of the innovations that differentiates INtime from the competition and it is the reason that INtime can fully integrate with the Windows architecture. It is designed to minimize the impact that future revisions of Windows might have on this solution.
NTX API: RT interface extensions for Win32 API. Windows applications can interact directly with INtime applications using NTX calls. NTX allows access to INtime objects and facilitates both communication and synchronization between real-time processes and non-real time processes.
On a host system that does not include an INtime node, the only addition is the NTX API, installed to communicate with INtime nodes on remote hosts.