2001
Founded by Stefan Zintgraf and Christoph Widmann in Weingarten.
Offering software development services with a focus on Embedded Systems and Real-time operating systems.
Our History
2002
Hiring of the first employees.
Development of the software CeWin.
2003
Market launch of CeWin: Windows Real-time extension (type 2 hypervisor) with Windows CE operating system.
2004
Membership in the EtherCAT® Technology Group.
2005
Start of EtherCAT® Master development and presentation at the SPS trade fair in Nuremberg.
2006
Market launch of EC-Master: EtherCAT® Master Stack for embedded systems.
Delivery of the software to the first customers in Germany, including KUKA Roboter.
2007
Redesign of the previous hypervisor architecture: RTOS Virtual Machine and Virtual Machine Framework. The new technology then became part of the next generation of all KUKA robots. Windows for the graphical user interface and the VxWorks Real-time operating system for controlling the motors are run on a single PC-based controller.
2008
Establishment of sales partners in Japan and South Korea.
2009
Proof of concept development RTOSVisor: Type 1 real-time hypervisor based on the new hypervisor architecture.
Market launch of EC-Lyser: Windows application for diagnosing EtherCAT® networks
2010
Establishment of a sales partner for the USA and Canada.
Development activities on the RTOSVisor put on hold, since the software technologies used and the hardware-based virtualization support were not sufficient at the time.
2011
Market launch of EC-Win: Windows EtherCAT® Real-time solution.
Market launch of EC-Engineer: EtherCAT® configuration tool for Windows.
2012
Website in Japanese and Chinese languages.
2014
Establishment of a sales partner for China.
The continuous growth requires the first relocation to larger office space.
2015
Market launch of EC-EAP: Software stack for the EtherCAT Automation Protocol (EAP).
2017
Start of TSN activities. Membership in the Labs Network Industry 4.0 (TSN Plugfest).
2018
Relocation to the new and fully air-conditioned offices in Ravensburg on Gartenstrasse.
Launch of LxWin: Real-time hypervisor for the parallel operation of Windows and real-time Linux.
2019
Founding of the first foreign subsidiary in the United States.
Establishment of a sales partner for Italy.
Further development of the RTOSVisor with support for the latest virtualization technologies and support for PCI and graphics pass-through.
Market launch of EC-Engineer Web: EtherCAT® configuration tool for Linux and Windows.
2020
New sales partner for France.
Launch of RTOSVisor: Hypervisor software for PCs to run multiple Real-time operating systems and standard operating systems.
Market launch of the EC Simulator: Real-time EtherCAT® network simulation.
2021
Market launch of EC-Inspector: Windows application for troubleshooting of EtherCAT® networks.
Market launch of EC-Monitor: Software library for monitoring and logging of EtherCAT® networks.
Maxburg Capital Partner becomes a shareholder.
2022
Partnership with Intel (Intel Gold Member).
Establishment of a sales partner for Australia and New Zealand.