Focus on Impact - Rapita Systems Ltd

Research from the Real-Time Systems Research Group at the University of York resulted in an innovative Worst-Case Execution time (WCET) analysis technology now called RapiTime, which was transferred to industry via a spin-out company, Rapita Systems Ltd. The technology enables companies in the aerospace and automotive industries to reduce the time and cost required to obtain confidence in the timing correctness of the systems they develop.

The RapiTime technology has global reach having been deployed on major aerospace and automotive projects in Germany, Spain, Italy, India, France, UK, USA, China, Brazil, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, Sweden, and Japan. Since 2014, Rapita has won significant export orders and companies are using RapiTime to analyse timing analysis of next-generation processors. In the 2018-19 financial year, Rapita’s annual revenues exceeded expectations. As of March 2019, Rapita has its offices in York and people based in the USA through Rapita Systems Inc.