MATLAB News & Notes - December 2004
Third-Party Products
Code Generation Targets for Model-Based Design
Model-Based Design enables automatic code generation for Simulink models on a range of real-time systems, including embedded microcontrollers, DSP chips, and FPGAs; rapid prototyping systems; and test systems. MathWorks Connections Partners offer specialized support for many targets in addition to those supported by xPC Target and the Embedded Target products.
Targeting Microcontrollers
@Source provides a complete embedded
development environment from within
MATLAB and Simulink. Using @Source,
you can produce Real-Time Workshop targets
to integrate with almost any hardware, operating
system, or real-time executive as a complete
system, or produce modules to integrate
with legacy code.
Podium Technology Ltd.
RapidHawk embedded targets provide blocksets
and other tools to implement Simulink
and Stateflow models on a range of production
target processors. RapidHawk supports C
code from both Real-Time Workshop and
Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.
MotoTron, Inc.
Targeting DSP Chips
DSPdeveloper integrates MATLAB and
Simulink with the Analog Devices Visual
DSP++ IDE. You can prototype and test
applications for ADI SHARC, Blackfin, and
TigerSHARC processors in Simulink, then
automatically compile, download, and run
them on the DSP hardware.
SDL
SignalMaster combines a development board
and software tools for designing and implementing
signal processing applications on
mixed FPGA/DSP-based hardware architectures. It includes tools to target Simulink
models onto SignalMaster’s DSPs and FPGAs
and to handle data exchange.
Lyrtech Inc.
Targeting FPGAs
Xilinx System Generator is a Simulink plug-in
that enables designers to develop high-performance
DSP systems for Xilinx FPGAs.
You can design and simulate a system using
MATLAB, Simulink, and the Xilinx library
of bit/cycle-true models, and automatically
generate synthesizable HDL code mapped
to Xilinx preoptimized algorithms.
Xilinx, Inc
DSP Builder enables you to create the hardware
representation of a DSP design in a development
environment integrated with MATLAB
and Simulink, using bit- and cycle-true
Simulink fixed-point blocks for basic and
complex operations. DSP Builder can also
write out VHDL files and Tcl scripts for
hardware implementation and simulation.
Altera Corporation
DECOMSYS provides tools for developing, simulating,
and implementing FlexRay-based distributed
systems.
The
tools include
Simulink
blocks to
model the
hardware and
software architecture of the FlexRay systems
and tools to implement code from Real-Time
Workshop onto the actual system.
DECOMSYS
TTP-Matlink is a Simulink blockset for Time-
Triggered Protocol (TTP) communication. It
enables you to develop applications for TTPbased
systems using Simulink and Stateflow,
while other TTTech tools use code generated
from Real-Time Workshop
Embedded Coder for rapid
prototyping and production
of distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time systems.
TTTech Computertechnik AG
Targeting Hardware-in-the-Loop Systems
dSPACE Simulator enables you to test new ECUs
without real vehicles or prototypes. You can
develop your model in Simulink, analyze it with
dSPACE’s ControlDesk interface to Simulink,
and test it on dSPACE Simulator (via code generated
from Real-Time Workshop) using the
same layouts, test scripts, and parameter sets.
dSPACE GmbH
RT-LAB RLX enables design engineers to perform
simulation, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing on Concurrent
iHawk™ Linux®-based, real-time multiprocessing
systems. With RT-LAB RLX, you can
prepare Simulink models for distributed processing
and use Real-Time Workshop to generate
C code for each target processor.
Concurrent Computer Corporation
Targeting Specialized Simulators and Testbeds
ADAPT-SIM is an automotive test system that
enables complex vehicle
behavior to be simulated in
an engine/powertrain test
cell. Those behaviors can be
modeled with MATLAB and
Simulink and generated to the ADAPT-DAC
RTP test cell environment using Real-Time
Workshop.
FEV Motorentechnik GmbH
D-Six is a reconfigurable PC-based simulation
environment for developing and deploying aircraft
simulations. Using the D-Six GUI with
code from Real-Time Workshop, you can
implement multiple Simulink models in a
single D-Six simulation loop without manual
coding.
Bihrle Applied Research Inc.
