The Embedded World Exhibition & Conference is the world's biggest exhibition of its kind and the meeting-place of the international embedded community. Embedded technologies are in action everywhere - whether in the car, data and telecommunication systems, industrial and consumer electronics, military systems or aerospace.

The exhibition set a new record of 675 exhibitors in 2008 and the number of visitors also reached record levels, when over 17,000 trade visitors from all over the world gained an insight into the latest trends in embedded technologies.

At Embedded World, Rapita Systems will be demonstrating how the RapiTime worst-case execution time (WCET) and performance profiling tool can be used to analyse real-time software running on real embedded hardware (a PowerPC), using TraceBox on-target tracing technology.

The RapiTime demonstration and presentation will be of interest to people involved in the development of real-time embedded systems wanting to:

• Understand and verify software execution time behaviour.
• Reduce the effort required to resolve timing issues.
• Obtain confidence in system reliability; by ensuring that time constraints are met.
• Improve software performance, so that new functionality can be added without the need for costly hardware upgrades.
• Target optimisation effort where it will be most effective, minimising any subsequent maintenance burden.
• Extract the maximum performance from the most cost effective processor variants.
• Build timing correctness into systems, rather than try and get timing bugs out.

Further details of the conference can be found on the Embedded-World 2009 website.