4DIAC-RTE (FORTE): IEC 61499 Compliant Runtime Environment

The 4DIAC-RTE (FORTE) is a small portable implementation of an IEC 61499 runtime environment targeting small embedded control devices (16/32 Bit). It provides the execution of basic function blocks, composite function blocks, and service interface function blocks. The following two versions are supported: A PC based version tested on i386 (Cygwin and Linux) and PPC (Linux), and an embedded ARM7 based version.

Current Version

The current version of FORTE is 0.3.7. This version is provided under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). It can be downloaded from here.

Note "EPL for FORTE Development": Changes to the FORTE open source code have to be provided under the EPL, whereas additions to the mentioned software inform of element types according to the IEC 61499 and/or architecture specific modifications are seen as separate modules of the mentioned software and can therefore be distributed in conjunction with the mentioned software under their own license agreement, and are not derivative works of the mentioned software.