Simulink Support for xPC Target Turnkey System for Education

xPC Target Turnkey for Education consists of Simulink, xPC Target, and other required MathWorks products together with the Education Real-Time Target Machine from Speedgoat. It is an integrated solution for studying and teaching design concepts in mechatronics, motion control, power electronics and signal processing.

xPC Target Turnkey provides a ready-to-use, real-time testing and simulation platform with built-in analog and digital I/Oconnectivity. It includes all required cables, terminal boards andadapters (power supply, DVI-I to VGA) to connect the target machine to the hardware under test.
Students can gain insight into a system design by monitoring and tuning the performance of the xPC Target application from Simulink while it is running in real time.
The industrial-grade design of the Education real-time target machine allows students to become familiar with components and design methodologies currently used in industry.

Teach Basic and Advanced Mechatronic Design Concepts

Teach hardware-in-the-loop and rapid control prototyping concepts with a lab that's easy to set up. Let students design models and visualize system behavior in Simulink. At the click of a button they can generate code from the model and execute it in real-time on the Education real-time target machine. The xPC Target Turnkey for Education comes with:

32 single-ended or 16 differential analog inputs (16-bit resolution)
8 single-ended analog outputs
Parallel digital I/O (8 input lines, 8 output lines)

Teach advanced mechatronics using the optional Motion Control FPGA Package. This package comes with:

An additional module with a Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA and 64 TTL I/O lines
Motion control I/O functionality (such as multi-channel and multi-phase PWM generation, capture of PWM signals and other pulse train patterns, and high-resolution quadrature decoding)

To study and teach the complete path of VHDL code development and implementation on a FPGA chip running together with your Simulink design, Speedgoat provides the optional Education FPGA Development Kit for xPC Target. The kit includes step-by-step instructions, code examples, and Simulink blocks for FPGA bitstream-download and FPGA application interaction.

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Required
Hardware	Education Real-Time Target Machine
MathWorks Products	MATLAB Simulink Simulink Coder xPC Target
Third-Party Software	Visual C++ Express Edition or any other C/C++ compiler supported by xPC Target Xilinx ISE^® WebPACK™ V. 10.1 (for Motion Control FPGA Package – Type 1) Xilinx ISE Design Suite V. 10.X Logic Edition (for Motion Control FPGA Package – Type 2) ModelSim Xilinx Edition-III (for custom FPGA implementations) Xilinx ISE and ModelSim (for VHDL code generation)

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