This application was made by the Vienna University of Technology - Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) as demonstrator in order to analyze the real-time and reconfiguration performance/capability of the FORTE runtime environment.

An ATMEL ARM7 micro controller with a Phytec Development Kit was used equipped with the FORTE on an eCOS real-time operating system. As a result of this investigation the usage of a IEC 61499 real-time execution approach implemented in the FORTE has shown its applicability. Furthermore the reconfiguration capability was presented by dynamically exchanging a simple PID controller with a more complex state-space controller.