INtime SDK Help
About INtime Help
This documentation introduces you to INtime: how it makes real-time applications possible, and how to use the INtime development tools. Use this documentation to get acquainted with INtime and to obtain detailed information about INtime components.
You can access INtime Help to:
To access Help, use one of these methods:
As a Microsoft Visual Studio extension: Select Help>Contents. INtime Help displays.
As context-sensitive Help in your code: For a specific topic, highlight a system call in your source code, then press F1. Help for that system call displays.
As a stand-alone Help file: Select Start>All Programs>INtime>Documentation>INtime Help.
On the web: Point your browser to http://support.tenasys.com/intimehelp
These are a few things you can do when INtime Help runs:
Note: In INtime help, the term Windows means Windows XP, or Windows XP Embedded, or Windows Server 2003, or later versions, both 32- or 64-bit editions. See the TenAsys support website for full details:
http://support.tenasys.com/helpdesk/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=37
| Sections | Description |
|---|---|
| New in this release | Lists and briefly describes new features and capabilities. |
| Overview | Describes how INtime software works together with Windows to create and run real-time applications, and lists INtime features. It also tells you where to find detailed information about INtime topics. |
| System Description | Explains how the INtime kernel works with Windows to provide RT functionality. It also lists and describes INtime components. |
| INtime kernel | Describes the INtime kernel and its objects, the basic building blocks that application programs manipulate. |
| Real-time programming concepts | Describes processes unique to RT programming. |
| Distributed applications | Provides information about distributing applications across multiple nodes. |
This explains how to start INtime software and how to use the INtime software development tools.
| Sections | Description |
|---|---|
| Configuring INtime software | Describes how to configure INtime software. |
| INtime operations | Describes how to start and run INtime software. |
| Developing INtime applications | Provides general guidelines for INtime application design. |
| Debugging tools | Explains how to use the debugging tools included with INtime software. |
The main INtime functional interface.
| Sections | Description |
|---|---|
| About system calls | An overview of the entire INtime API. |
| Distributed system management (DSM) | Operations related to distributed system management. |
| Exception handling | Operations on exception handlers and exception system calls. |
| Global objects | Operations that allow a real-time process to access objects which exist on another instance of the INtime kernel. |
| Interrupts | Operations for interrupts and interrupt system calls. |
| Mailboxes | Operations on mailboxes and the mailbox system calls . |
| Memory management | System calls related directly to memory management. |
| Object directories | Operations on objects (mostly handles) in object directories. |
| Ports | Operations on ports. |
| Processes | Operations related to processes. |
| Regions | Operations related to regions. |
| Scheduler | Operations related to scheduling. |
| Semaphores | Operations on semaphores. |
| Status | Operations related to support tasks. |
| System data calls | Lists INtime system data tasks you can perform. |
| Threads | Common thread tasks. |
| Time management | Operations related to time and alarms. |
INtime functional interface for C Library, Registry, TCP/IP, PCI library, etc.
| Sections | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| C lib calls | A comprehensive collection of C Library calls. | |
| Heap management calls | Operations related to C library heap management. | |
| High-performance Gigabit Ethernet calls | Operations related to High-performance Gigabit Ethernet. | |
| INtime C++ class library | The standard INtime C++ library. | |
| INScope | INscope | Interface libraries and an API that you can call to instrument application. |
| Network stack | An API used with communications resources. | |
| PCI library calls | An API to interact with the PCI bus. | |
| Real-time shared library (RSL) calls | An API for managing Real-time shared libraries. | |
| Registry calls | Operations on the registry and registry keys. | |
| Serial communications | Operations related to Serial communications tasks. | |
| USB | Operations related to USB tasks. |
For those familiar with the Windows environment, the 'iwin32' (the INtime subset of Win32) API provides an alternative that includes a subset of the Win32 functions.
| Sections | Description |
|---|---|
| iwin32 Overview | Real-time development for Windows developers. |
| iwin32 Architecture | Handles, Named Objects, Processes, Threads, Mutexes, etc. |
| iwin32 Design | Managing interactions between INtime and iwin32 processes. |
| iwin32 Development | Project settings and Exception codes. |
| iwin32 Porting | A discussion of the porting process with an example. |
| iwin32 API | The standard iwin32 API. |
| iwin32x API | The extended iwin32 API. |
This provides additional information about INtime software.
| Sections | Description |
|---|---|
| Adding INtime software to XP Embedded | A brief description of how to incorporate INtime with an XP Embedded system. |
| Status codes | Lists INtime software status codes, provides a description for each code, and identifies the system calls that use each code. |
| Support and service | Describes how to contact TenAsys when you have questions about INtime software. |
| Software license and warranty | Includes your INtime software and license warranty. |
| TCPIP configuration parameters | Tables of parameters and values. |
| Troubleshooting | Provides a strategy for resolving INtime software problems, and lists remedies for commonly encountered problems. |
| Utilities | Describes the utilities that come with INtime software. Also provides access to those utilities' Help files. |
| Virtual Ethernet Configuration | Describes the means by which applications which rely on TCP/IP protocols and have a Windows and real-time target networking component can be migrated to the INtime real-time environment. |
You can access INtime Help to:
To access Help, use one of these methods:
For a specific topic, highlight a system call in your source code, then press F1. Help for that system call displays.
Before you can access context-sensitive Help within source code, you must enable context-sensitive Help with the Microsoft Visual Studio. To enable context-sensitive Help:
To re-enable the Microsoft online books, select the Use Extension Help option entry again.
Go to http://support.tenasys.com/intimehelp_6 to view the help content online.