1988–2006: The Founding and Early Years
1988 Founding of Litronic AG as a consulting and engineering company for embedded and real-time systems by Roland Lips.
1990-1991 Expansion into sales and support of development tools for embedded systems.
Partnership with the Swedish Enea Data AB starts. Litronic AG becomes one of the first distributors for the OSE real-time operating system. Sales and support of OSE in Switzerland and Austria.
1995–1997 Roland Lips creates Enea Data GmbH in Munich, Germany, which was rebranded in 1996 as Enea OSE Systems GmbH to support and sell the OSE real-time operating system.
Litronic AG develops and ships the first OSE Kernel.
1998–1999 After the successful introduction of OSE in German speaking Europe, shares are sold to Enea OSE Systems AB, and the joint‑venture Enea OSE Engineering GmbH is established as the global competence center for OSE Epsilon.
2003-2006 Transition from Litronic AG to SCIOPTA Systems GmbH/AG with the official introduction of the SCIOPTA brand and product line, culminating in the renaming of the mother company in 2006.
2006–2024: The Growth and Innovation Era
2006 The SCIOPTA real-time kernel is certified by TÜV Germany according to the IEC 61508 standard at Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3).
2007-2008 Launched the SCIOPTA Simulator and USB Host Stack, expanding support across diverse embedded platforms.
2009-2010 SCIOPTA IEC61508 SIL3 and EN50128 SIL3/4 Safety Real-Time Operating System for ARM certified by TÜV.
SCIOPTA RTOS Kernel Awareness for iSYSTEM winIDEA.
Expanding support across diverse embedded platforms.
2011 SCIOPTA Safety Kernel for ARM and Cortex certified to IEC 61508 and EN50128:2011 by TÜV.
Expanded SCIOPTA to additional microcontroller platforms.
2012-2013 SCIOPTA Safety Kernel with Data Integrity for PowerPC certified to IEC 61508 and EN50128 by TÜV. Expanded SCIOPTA to additional microcontroller platforms.
2014 SCIOPTA Safety Kernel certified to ISO 26262 by TÜV SÜD. Expanded the RTOS portfolio for advanced microprocessor platforms.
2015 Launched the SCIOPTA Safety RTOS for Freescale i.MX6 and certified according to IEC61508 SIL3, EN 50128 SIL3/4 and ISO 26262 ASIL D.
2016 SCIOPTA Safety RTOS Available for Infineon Aurix and ARM Cortex‑A53 and certified according to IEC61508 SIL3, EN 50128 SIL3/4 and ISO 26262 ASIL D.
Introduced the SAFE FAT File System for flexible file handling.
Expanding support across diverse embedded platforms.
2017 Launched the Protektor Hypervisor, enabling secure separation of operating environments using ARM TrustZone.
Updated Safety RTOS Certificate from TÜV Süd.
2018 Released safety‑certified device drivers for the MPC57x series.
Introduced the SCIOPTA CONNECTOR for Xilinx’s UltraScale.
2019-2024 Expanded the SCIOPTA RTOS portfolio with new platform support, updated certifications of the SCIOPTA Real-Time System, and enhanced product offerings.