Real-time automation device having a real-time data bus

A real-time automation device comprising:

• a real-time data bus;
• a memory device;
• and
• a bus database assigned to the real-time data bus, at least one of (i) a bus variable source and (ii) a bus variable receiver being one of assigned or assignable to a bus variable within the bus database;
• wherein the real-time data bus is configured to transmit values assigned to predefined or predefinable bus variables;
• wherein the real-time data bus is further configured for cyclic data transport with a cycle time which is predefinable or predefined by a clock generator;
• wherein the real-time data bus is further configured to communicate a value assigned to the bus variable from a bus variable source assigned to the bus variable in accordance with the bus database via the real-time data bus to a bus variable receiver assigned to the bus variable in accordance with the bus database such that, in an event of a transfer of the value from the bus variable source to the real-time data bus within a first bus cycle, the value is then transferable or is transferred to the bus variable receiver within a predefined or predefinable bus cycle succeeding the first bus cycle;
• wherein the memory device comprises a software application configured to one of (i) receive values assigned to the bus variable from the real-time data bus and (ii) send values assigned to the bus variable to the real-time data bus;
• and
• wherein the real-time automation device is further configured to register the software application as the bus variable receiver or respectively as the bus variable source for the bus variable within the bus database.