Version 1.1 (R2007b) Embedded IDE Link™ VS Release Notes

Version 1.1 (R2007b) Embedded IDE Link™ VS

This table summarizes what's new in V1.1 (R2007b):

Features introduced in this version are described here:

Link and Target Products Regrouped in New Start, Help, and Demos Category

A new product category, Links and Targets, now contains all MathWorks™ software products that link, target, or cosimulate code.

Compatibility Considerations

This change impacts you in the following ways:

• Finding and viewing these products through the MATLAB^® Desktop Start button and in the Help browser Contents and Demos panes.

• Using the demo command to access the product demos.

For more about this new product category, see Demos and Help Browser Contents Now Include New Category for Links and Targets, in the MATLAB Release Notes.

Blocks for Accessing Memory in Generated Projects

Two blocks let you access memory from models. The blocks apply to all ADI processors. Find the blocks in the Core Support (vdsplinklib_coresupport) in Embedded IDE Link™ VS block library (vdsplinklib).

Memory Allocate and Memory Copy let you configure memory, initialize memory, and move data to and from memory on a processor or board.

Support for Real-Time Workshop^® Target Function Library Replacement

If you are using vdsplink_ert.tlc as your system target file, Embedded IDE Link VS software now supports generating code that is optimized for the processor by using compiler intrinsics and assembly code to replace certain mathematical operator functions. Embedded IDE Link VS accomplishes this optimization through the Target Function Library (TFL) replacement mechanism that Real-Time Workshop^® software provides.

TFL replacement requires Real-Time Workshop^® Embedded Coder™ software and the embedded real-time target—vdsplink_ert.tlc.

For more general information about TFL, look for TFL in the Interface options in Configuring Real-Time Workshop^® Code Generation Parameters. For information about using TFL in Embedded IDE Link VS, refer to Target Function Library and Embedded IDE Link™ VS Software.

set and get Methods with Updated Syntax

set and get now require both an object variable and property name input arguments to work. In earlier releases, you could use set and get with only the object variable name input to see a list of all of the properties for an object.

The following command syntaxes are no longer supported by set and get. In the examples, vd is an adivdsp object created by adivdsp:

• get(vd)

• value = get(vd)

• set(vd)

• set(vd,'propertyname1',propertyvalue1,'propertyname2',propertyvalue2,...)

• value = set(vd)

The following syntax options work as before:

• get(vd,'propertyname')

• value = get(vd,'propertyname')

• set(vd,'propertyname',propertyvalue)

Compatibility Consideration

The syntax changes to set and get affect any scripts you might have that use set and get to return lists of object properties.

Refactored PIL Project Options in Model Configuration Parameters

The existing PIL block option—Configure model to build PIL algorithm object code—has been replaced by a new option Create_Processor_in_the_Loop_project on the Build action list and a new parameter called PIL block action.

To build the PIL block with the new options, select Create_Processor_in_the_Loop_project for the Build action, and then select an option from the PIL block action list. For more information about the new configuration parameters and using PIL blocks, refer to Processor-in-the-Loop Overview.

Version 2.0 (R2008a) Embedded IDE Link™ VS Software

Version 1 (R2007a+) Embedded IDE Link VS