Benefits of Chrona's Creation Suite

We believe that Chrona technology will prove truly disruptive – it will transform the way safety-critical real-time software is developed – because of its tremendous advantages in simplicity, flexibility, time savings and cost savings.

Here’s how other approaches stack up:

	Chrona—platform-independent components	All others—platform dependent components
Development	Fast, visual, simple, low cost	Complex, high cost
Testing	Fast, certain, low cost, guaranteed	Protracted, costly testing and retesting. Certainty not guaranteed
Integrity	Total. Not impacted by changes in other components or platform	Compromisable. Changes in one area can interfere with timing behavior
Reusability	Yes. Can be used over and over without modification	No. Must be redeveloped for each context

Cost savings by a factor of 20, or more: This is a conservative figure. It is based on measuring the time required to develop a system that executes on a FlexRay cluster with state-of-the-art FlexRay development tools versus the time required to solve the same problem with Chrona’s TDL-based Creation Suite.

The tremendous savings are a result of two key factors:

(1) the developer models the timing visually and simply plugs in the specs. The tool generates faultless code automatically. It’s that simple.

(2) the developer completely sets aside all platform considerations. These are handled by the Chrona VisualDistributor, a tool that automatically maps components modeled with the VisualCreator onto a specific target platform. Chrona takes care of updating and validating all platform requirements.

One tool suite for all platforms: This is a radical departure from today's situation that typically requires specialized tools and extra training for each platform.
Unprecedented, guaranteed quality: Chrona guarantees time and value determinism. That is, a specific sequence of inputs at certain instants in time always causes the same sequence of outputs at corresponding instants in time.
Unprecedented flexibility: You can change the computing platform and/or topology of a single-node or distributed system without changing the behavior of your software. We guarantee it. That includes changing processors, operating systems and bus communications. Just generate the schedule and code again.
Seamless integration with Matlab®/Simulink®: We guarantee that the simulated behavior of Chrona’s TDL-based components will always be identical to the actual behavior when executed on a specific platform.
Migration of existing bus schedules: Our tools can import schedules provided as Fibex files and you can incrementally extend these schedules.