Product Overview

Real-Time Windows Target™ rapid prototyping software is a PC solution for prototyping and testing real-time systems. Real-Time Windows Target software uses a single computer as a host and target. On this computer, you use the MATLAB^® environment, Simulink^® software, and Stateflow^® software (optional) to create models using Simulink blocks and Stateflow diagrams.

After creating a model and simulating it using Simulink software in normal mode, you can generate executable code with Simulink^® Coder™ code generation software and the Open Watcom C/C++ compiler. Then you can run your application in real time with Simulink external mode.

Integration between Simulink external mode and Real-Time Windows Target software allows you to use your Simulink model as a graphical user interface for

• Signal visualization — Use the same Simulink Scope blocks that you use to visualize signals during a non-real-time simulation to visualize signals while running a real-time application.

• Parameter tuning — Use the Block Parameter dialog boxes to change parameters in your application while it is running in real time.

Typical uses for Real-Time Windows Target applications include

• Real-time control — Create a prototype of automotive, computer peripheral, and instrumentation control systems.

• Real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation — Create a prototype of controllers connected to a physical plant. For example, the physical plant could be an automotive engine. Create a prototype of a plant connected to an actual controller. For example, the prototyped plant could be an aircraft engine.

• Education — Teach concepts and procedures for modeling, simulating, testing real-time systems, and iterating designs.

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