TwinCAT Runtime for Real-Time Linux

With TwinCAT Runtime for Linux®, Pepperl+Fuchs opens up new application possibilities for real-time control.

In the future, several independent TwinCAT Runtime can be executed on the same industrial PC.

Users will be able to combine different system components on a single high-performance computer, thus simplifying programming and diagnostics.

It also provides access to the GPU (graphics card) in the real-time environment, hardware gas pedals for high-computing applications such as machine vision, and much more.

The new TwinCAT Runtime is based on Pepperl+Fuchs' Linux® distribution.

TwinCAT Runtime for Linux® is based on Pepperl+Fuchs' own Linux® distribution and offers a wide choice of operating systems in addition to Windows and TwinCAT/BSD.

The distribution is based on the open-source Debian operating system and includes as standard a Linux® real-time kernel for the real-time execution of TwinCAT Runtime.

Additional software can be easily installed via the Debian package management system.

All features combine to provide TwinCAT Runtime for stable real-time control on the Linux® platform.

Using container technologies such as Docker®, Podman and LXC, multiple TwinCAT Runtimes can be executed on a single industrial PC.

This enables the modularization of machine control and other control applications.

Individual execution of multiple TwinCAT runtimes on a single Industrial PC facilitates hardware consolidation, which increases the utilization of available computing resources and provides corresponding cost advantages.

Linux® users can take advantage of the increased possibilities offered by automation technology while maintaining the familiar application programming environment of TwinCAT.

Benefits include optimized execution of multiple real-time applications on a single CPU, increased user flexibility through modular control code, simplified addition or replacement of application modules, and the ability to perform updates for individual applications.

and the execution of updates for individual applications. In addition, it reduces the overall cost of time and money invested in engineering.

TwinCAT Runtime for Linux® is available first.

The Pepperl+Fuchs Linux® distribution will follow on all other industrial PCs and embedded controllers.