National Tsing Hua University Chooses Ardence RTX for Real-Time Training in Taiwan.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- National Tsing Hua University, a highly respected research university recognized as a central authority for education in the design, development and operation of real time systems and mechatronic controls throughout Taiwan, announces the selection of Ardence RTX as its choice for a hard real time software platform as part of a newly created educational curricula. Ardence, a Citrix Company, develops hard real time extensions for the Windows operating system.

The university frequently provides its expertise to develop and deploy industrial automation solutions to national business. As an effort to expand these services, it created both basic and advanced courses in program design and mechatronic system design for industrial automation systems. These educational programs will extend the university's technology transfer capabilities, enabling engineers to design, develop and deploy their own real time automated systems within the EDM, PCB equipment and CNC metal cutting markets in Taiwan.

"Our decision to use the Windows platform with Ardence RTX was easy," said Professor Dr. -Ing. Lei, Wei-Tai, of National Tsing Hua University. "The wide availability of development tools for Windows, together with the popularity and convenience of a PC based system made this a logical choice. The Ardence RTX extension provides the hard real time control required for our critical applications while allowing us to minimize training costs."

About National Tsing Hua University:

National Tsing Hua University is located in Hsinchu, 72 kilometers south of Taipei. The scenic campus, covering an area over 105 hectares (260 acres) is conveniently located near neighboring research institutions such as the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC), National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), Food industry Research and Development Institute (FIRDI) and the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park (HSIP). These establishments have made Hsinchu known as the 'Science city of Taiwan'. Tsing Hua features seven colleges, with over 500 full time faculty in 17 departments and 18 independent institutes including the College of Science, Engineering, Nuclear Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Technology Management. The University designs curricula with courses that transcend collegiate and departmental boundaries, emphasizing interdisciplinary cooperation in teaching as well as research while holding its more than 8500 students to the highest of educational standards.

About Ardence, a Citrix Company:

Ardence develops real-time software platforms for the embedded world. The Ardence Embedded OEM Development Platform delivers market-leading operating system control capabilities that enable OEMs to increase system performance, device configuration and management. The Ardence product portfolio encompasses RTX[R], ReadyOn[R], Select[R], and ETS. RTX is the leading solution to provide hard real-time performance to the Microsoft Windows[R] operating system on single and multicore architectures. ReadyOn[R] and Select[R] manage and greatly reduce the boot-up time of the Windows operating system while eliminating the need to shutdown the computer before turning off power. ETS, the Ardence real-time operating system, was one of the first operating systems supported on Real-Time Systems'hypervisor.

With more than 25 years of industry experience, Ardence is the leader in hard real-time embedded solutions for Windows environments.

About Citrix

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