2008 headquarters waltham massachusetts usa key people jeffrey d. hibbard ceo website www.intervalzero.com footnotes references formerly ardence inc. venturcom intervalzero inc. develops hard real time software and its symmetric multiprocessing smp enabled rtx and rtx64 software transform the microsoft windows general purpose operating system gpos into a real time operating system rtos . intervalzero and its engineering group regularly release new software cf its history . 1 its most recent product rtx64 focuses on 64 bit and symmetric multiprocessing smp to replace dedicated hardware based systems such as digital signal processors dsps or field programmable gate arrays fpgas with multicore pcs . 2 for instance an audio mixing surface manufacturer which largely deployed dsp based systems switched to personal computer pc based systems dedicating multi core processors for the real time audio processing . founded in july 2008 by a group of former ardence executives intervalzero is headed by ceo jeffrey d. hibbard . the firm has offices in waltham ma ; nice france ; munich germany and taiwan roc . this global presence is important because these solutions are deployed worldwide primarily in industrial automation military aerospace medical devices digital media and test and simulation software . the corporate name intervalzero comes from the firm s mission to deliver deterministic hard real time functionality . an interval of zero is the technical definition of the optimal experience between a system command and execution . contents 1 history 2 products 3 executive officers 4 references 5 external links history edit intervalzero s lineage traces back to 1980 when a group of massachusetts institute of technology mit engineers started venturcom and began to develop expertise in embedded technology . it was during this time that venix was developed and marketed . their first innovation was to focus on windows nt 4.0 as a possible real time solution for the industry in 1995 by releasing rtx . 3 since then a lot of controllers are pc and windows based . their second innovation came as a second product component integrator which makes windows nt 4.0 an embedded os . it was licensed by microsoft a few years later and became the origin of windows nt embedded . 4 in 2004 venturcom was renamed ardence . on 20 december 2006 citrix systems announced an agreement to acquire ardence s enterprise and embedded software businesses and integrated the software streaming products into the citrix portfolio in 2007 and early 2008 . 5 in early 2008 citrix agreed to sell the embedded business to intervalzero and citrix has retained a minority ownership the firm . on 28 july 2008 intervalzero announced that it acquired the ardence embedded software business from citrix systems inc. 6 intervalzero officially completed the acquisition on july 15 2008 . products edit intervalzero develops the following products rtx and rtx64 hard real time software transforms microsoft windows into a real time operating system rtos . executive officers edit jeffrey d. hibbard chief executive officer mark van vranken chief financial officer brian calder vice president north america sales & marketing daron underwood vice president cto brian carter vice president strategic communications bryan levey vice president engineering references edit recognizing excellence among windows embedded partners intervalzero rtx software outperforms digital signal processors realtime windows nt microsoft licenses venturcom s component integrator technology citrix acquires ardence for pc server provisioning network world citrix sells its ardence embedded software business to intervalzero tmcnet external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title intervalzero & oldid 687383013 categories computer companies of the united statessoftware companies based in massachusettscompanies based in massachusettsreal time operating systemscompanies established in 2008hidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 25 october 2015 at 06 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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