Chrona offers two revolutionary tool suites to the real-time community:

Chrona Creation Suite: This tool suite offers a radical rethinking of the development methodology based on cutting-edge advances in the science of timing description.

Chrona deploys a Timing Definition Language (TDL) to model timing. This frees development from platform considerations, radically cutting the time and cost of development while delivering guaranteed timing behavior.

Products in the development suite include:

• Chrona VisualCreator for platform-neutral modeling of timing behavior
• Chrona VisualDistributor for automatically mapping Chrona-components with timing behavior to your target platform, producing executable software components

Chrona Validation Suite: The core of this suite is an advanced tool that overcomes the traditional limitations of software-in-the-loop simulators.

Unlike the alternative simulators, the Chrona Validator:

• Offers the advantages of Software-In-the-Loop (SIL) simulations in terms of costs and simulation speed as well as the advantages of Instruction-Set-Simulators (ISS) or Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulations in terms of accuracy.
• Fills the gap between HIL and SIL by replacing ISS
• Factors in the effect of preemption on data flow
• Accounts for the actual elapsed time that platforms require to execute task functions

These features significantly cut time and cost for validation and deliver far more reliable results. Additional tools for execution time estimation will be added to the suite in the future.

• Chrona‘s Validator allows the software-in-the-loop simulation of the real-time behavior of an entire control system to validate its behavior