Background
Apitronix team have a passion for making the embedded software in everything we use better by simplifying the process of building complex safety-critical systems.
It was founded on the technical understandings of Dr Ken Tindell, founder of LiveDevices (now Bosch ETAS). With his deep experience of embedded systems, especially in automotive, Ken observed how complex embedded MCU's had become. The manual for the latest devices often runs to many thousands of pages with hundreds of pages of Errata.
At the same time he saw a route to make it much simpler to build reliable systems and nearly eliminate the undesireable side-effects between the many processes running on these devices.
The result of this journey is Apitronix revolutionary new processor.
The company has engaged with key partners: automotive OEMs, Tier 1 vendors and UAV companies.
History
With Volvo's backing, Dr Tindell started his first automotive real-time company based on his research work into determinism at the University of York. That grew into a successful company that was purchased by Bosch and to a real-time operating system that's been used in 4,000,000,000 automotive ECUs since then.
His experience working with automotive manufacturers led him to realise that the chips being used were increasingly becoming bloated and complex, requiring huge manuals and with a steep learning curve. In pursuing maximum performance for each core, the complexity had grown exponentially. A simpler more scalable solution was needed in order to be able to deliver simpler, but more powerful systems. These systems could then provide the performance needed to allow dramatic reductions in the cost of real-time compute in vehicles, and make it easier to bring safety-critical systems to production rapidly.
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