Simulink® Fixed Point™

Why Use the Simulink^® Fixed Point™ Software?

The Simulink^® Fixed Point™ software allows you to efficiently design control systems and digital filters that you will implement using fixed-point arithmetic. With the Simulink Fixed Point software, you can construct Simulink^® and Stateflow^® models that contain detailed fixed-point information about your systems. You can then perform bit-true simulations with the models to observe the effects of limited range and precision on your designs.

You can configure the Fixed-Point Tool to automatically log the overflows, saturations, and signal extremes of your simulations. You can also use it to automate scaling decisions and to compare your fixed-point implementations against idealized, floating-point benchmarks.

You can use the Simulink Fixed Point software with the Real-Time Workshop^® product to automatically generate efficient, integer-only C code representations of your designs. You can use this C code in a production target or for rapid prototyping. You can also use the Simulink Fixed Point software with the Real-Time Workshop^® Embedded Coder™ product to generate real-time C code for use on an integer production, embedded target.

Why Use Fixed-Point Hardware?

The Development Cycle