Press releases


2023

June 1st, 2023

New Partnership with SP Vision Technology in Thailand

Kithara Software has announced its partnership with the company SP Vision Technology Co., Ltd.. Read the latest press release here: Further information ...


2022

September 6th, 2022

Windows 11 22H2 in real time already at release

Kithara has announced the support for the upcoming Windows 11 Version 22H2. Read the latest press release here: Further information ...

March 31st, 2022

100 Gigabit Ethernet in Real Time with Intel E810

The Kithara real-time operating system now also support network card with 100 Gigabit Ethernet. Read the latest press release here: Further information ...


2021

October 19th, 2021

CPU offload thanks to GigE Vision frame grabber

Kithara has successfully finished development of a real-time driver for the frame grabber card PGC-1000 by PLC2 Design, allowing for the CPU to be almost completely relieved during image capturing operations. Further information ...

August 26th, 2021

Kithara at the Vision 2021

Kithara Software is exhibitor at this year’s VISION trade fair from October 5 to 7. At booth 8C12 in hall 8, the Berlin software company will showcase the latest technologies for image capturing and processing in real time. Further information ...

February 10th, 2021

Precise GPS Synchronization with NMEA

Kithara Software has announced support for synchronization of GPS devices as part of the PTP Module. Read the latest press release here. Further information ...


2020

October 20th, 2020

Accurate synchronization for distributed systems with gPTP

Kithara Software has announced support for gPTP (generalized Precision Time Protocol). This streamlined PTP profile can now also be accessed with Kithara RealTime Suite. Read the latest press release here. Further information ...

October 18th, 2020

RAID 0 in Real Time

Kithara Software has announced support for real-time data storage via RAID 0. This way, Kithara RealTime Suite allows for multiple linked SSDs to read and write data in real time, while multiplying storage capacity and throughput rate accordingly. Further information ...

October 16th, 2020

Real Time for Multifunction Cards from National Instruments

Kithara Software now also supports multifunction data acquisition cards by National Instruments. Read the latest press release here. Further information ...

January 8th, 2020

Kithara at the Embedded World 2020 in Nuremberg

Kithara Software will be attending this year’s Embedded World in Nuremberg from February 25 to 27 as exhibitor at booth 446 in hall 4. Read the latest press release here. Further information ...


2019

November 8th, 2019

Machine Learning with Dlib in Real Time

Kithara reveals real-time support for machine learning. Read the latest press release here. Further information ...

November 7th, 2019

Faster: Real Time for 40 Gigabit Ethernet

New milestone at Kithara for real-time Ethernet: The 40 gigabit mark has been reached. Read the latest press release now. Further information ...

July 24th, 2019

Kithara at the All About Automation in Leipzig

Kithara Software will be exhibiting at this year’s All About Automation in Leipzig from September 11 to 12 while presenting the latest developments for software-based real-time solutions at booth C-108. Further information ...

March 22nd, 2019

Mobile Real Time with Thunderbolt

Kithara Software has announced the support for the communication interface Thunderbolt. In conjunction with Kithara RealTime Suite, this way, all devices in a system connected via Thunderbolt can be registered and controlled in real time. Read the press release here. Further information ...

March 7th, 2019

Big Automotive Data with Real-Time MDF

Kithara Software has announced the implementation of the standard for measurement data MDF into Kithara RealTime Suite. The integration of the data format into the real-time system allows for deterministic storing of measurement data, especially for the development of automotive systems. Read the press release here. Further information ...


2018

November 26th, 2018

Real-Time Data Storage in PCAPng

Kithara Software has announced the support for PCAPng within Kithara RealTime Suite. This will allow for any measurement data to be written and read in real time and in a Wireshark-compatible format. Further information ...

September 17th, 2018

Kithara is Exhibitor at the Vision 2018

Kithara Software has announced its participation at this year’s Vision trade show in Stuttgart from November 6 to 8. The Berlin software company will present the latest developments for PC-based image capturing and processing in real-time at booth 1A68 in hall 1. Further information ...

August 8th, 2018

Kithara with real-time for PCAN USB FD adapter

Kithara Software has announced support for the PCAN-USB FD adapter by Peak Systems with the real-time environment RealTime Suite. In doing so, Kithara expands its long-standing cooperation with the Darmstadt-based company. Further information ...

May 18th, 2018

Kithara at the automatica 2018 in Munich

Kithara Software has announced they will be participating as an exhibitor at this year’s automatica in Munich from June 19 to 22 at booth B6.126. Further information ...

March 8th, 2018

Kithara PR: Kithara expands business in Asia

Kithara Software has announced two new distribution partnerships in South Korea as well as Malaysia. With these two new representations, the Berlin software enterprise will expand its market presence within the Asian region. Further information ...


2017

December 7th, 2017

BroadR-Reach Ethernet in Real Time

Kithara has announced support for BroadR-Reach within Kithara RealTime Suite. With real-time capabilities for the BroadR-Reach standard, automobile developers are able to directly control and test physical Ethernet networks for vehicles. Further information ...

November 8th, 2017

Real-time support for Precision Time Protocol

Kithara Software, specialist for industrial real time, has announced the support for the Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588 v2). With PTP, multiple network participants in a distributed system can be precisely synchronized and triggered in real time with Kithara RealTime Suite. Further information ...


2016

October 7th, 2016

Kithara at the Vision Stuttgart 2016

Kithara will be once again an exhibitor at this year’s Vision in Stuttgart from November 8–10. At booth 1A68 in hall 1, visitors are granted an insight into the newest developments for the field of real-time vision technologies as well as their implementation into automation systems. Further information ...

June 28th, 2016

Real-Time Data Storing with Storage Module

Kithara has integrated the Storage Module into Kithara RealTime Suite, a groundbreaking technology for fast real-time data storage via solid-state drives. Industrial real-time applications in test environments, especially with Big Data specifications, benefit particularly from the increased read and write speeds. Further information ...

May 4th, 2016

A New Level of Real-Time Image Processing

Kithara now also supports Halcon 12 with its real-time system Kithara RealTime Suite. In this manner, the new features of the recent generation of the wide-spread image processing library are applied with guaranteed jitter times. Further information ...

April 27th, 2016

Kithara auf der Vision Show 2016 in Boston

Kithara Software will be exhibiting again at this year’s AIA Vision Show in the Boston Hynes Convention Center from May 3–5. Kithara will grant interested visitors an insight into the newest software-based machine vision solutions at Booth 1035. Further information ...

March 8th, 2016

Kithara RealTime Suite Enters the Next Phase

Kithara has released version 10 of Kithara RealTime Suite. The most recent version of the real-time extension for Windows includes a variety of improvements and changes in order to establish a more optimized development basis for the function library. Further information ...


2015

October 27th, 2015

Fast Field­bus for Auto­motive Net­working

Kithara has integrated the support of the network protocol FlexRay into the company’s real-time extension. This way, the field bus system, commonly used in automotive networking, can be controlled with hard real-time capabilities, which is often employed in fields such as test system development and the supplier industry. Further information ...

September 8th, 2015

Better with Standards

Founded by German premium automobile manufacturers, the Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems (ASAM) welcomes its newest member. This move will enable Kithara to expand its collaboration potential in the field of automotive testing. Further information ...

March 18th, 2015

OpenCV is Open for Real-Time

Kithara Software has successfully finished the connection of the open-source image processing library OpenCV to the company’s own real-time extension. Run Machine Vision in real-time on Windows platforms! Further information ...

January 13th, 2015

A Close View on USB3 Vision™

Following the real-time support of USB 3.0, Kithara now also provides real-time for the machine vision standard USB3 Vision. Further information ...


2014

October 16th, 2014

USB 3 or not to be

Kithara, has successfully finished the real-time support of USB 3.0, which allows for all USB-based interfaces and devices to be used with guaranteed reaction times. Further information ...

September 16th, 2014

Bean Counting in Real-Time

Kithara, in cooperation with US-based company VMEK, has developed a machine solution for the optical quality control of bulk material. Further information ...

July 18th, 2014

A Different Side of EtherCAT

Kithara has completed the support of PCIe EtherCAT slave cards as a complement to the popular Kithara EtherCAT Master functionality. Further information ...

June 25th, 2014

GigE Vision with 10 Gbit/s

Kithara has successfully completed the development of a software solution for 10 Gbit Ethernet cameras. Further information ...

May 14th, 2014

The Automotive Future with LIN

Kithara has announced the real-time support for the Local Interconnect Network—a serial network protocol commonly used in automotive engineering for the implementation of cost-efficient car networking. Further information ...

February 26th, 2014

Road to China

Kithara has announced a cooperation agreement with a Chinese distributor to expand its presence in the Asian region. Further information ...


2013

December 10th, 2013

Real-Time under Windows with EtherCAT and DIAdem

The German company A-solution GmbH successfully introduced their new product DIAdem EtherCAT Driver to the public at the Technology and User Conference VIP 2013 this year. Further information ...


2012

July 10th, 2012

Kithara with Safety over EtherCAT®

The real-time EtherCAT Master from Kithara now also supports the Safety-over-EtherCAT protocol, which allows for the implementation of safety-critical solutions up to SIL3. Further information ...

June 12th, 2012

GigE Vision® and Image Processing in Real-Time

The new Camera Module of Kithara RealTime Suite allows for real-time image capture with GigE Vision® cameras. Further information ...

May 31st, 2012

New Tool: Kithara PCI Toolkit

Kithara has finished the new Kithara PCI Toolkit, which provides all necessery mechanisms for the fast development of hardware drivers, especially for PCI/PCIe boards. Further information ...

May 8th, 2012

New Tool: Kithara USB Toolkit

Kithara USB Toolkit provides all the necessary functions for the efficient development of Windows drivers for USB devices. Further information ...