Glossary (xPC Target™)

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application: See target application.
build process: Process of generating a target application from your Simulink model, compiling, linking, and downloading the generated code to create a target application.
execution: Running the target application on the target PC in real time.
executable code: See target application.
kernel: Real-time software component running on the target PC that manages the downloaded target application.
model: Simulink and/or Stateflow model.
parameter tuning: Process of changing block parameters and downloading the new values to a target application while it is running or not running.
sample rate: Rate the target application is stepped in samples/second. Reciprocal of the sample time.
sample time: Interval, in seconds, between the execution of target application steps.
signal logging: Acquiring and saving signal data created during a real-time execution.
signal monitoring: Getting the values of one or more signals without time information.
signal tracing: Acquiring and displaying packages of signal data during real-time execution.
simulation: Running a simulation of the Simulink and Stateflow model on the host PC in nonreal time.
target application: Executable code generated from a Simulink and Stateflow model, which can be executed by the xPC Target kernel on the target PC.

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