Embedded IDE Link 4.0

Working with Embedded IDE Link

Embedded IDE Link enables you to transition your embedded software projects smoothly from specification and modeling to embedded deployment and on-target verification. You can use Embedded IDE Link incrementally with MATLAB, Simulink, Real-Time Workshop, and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder, enabling different features according to the modeling and code-generation product available with your installation.

Debugging with MATLAB

Used with MATLAB alone, Embedded IDE Link lets you create scripts in MATLAB to automate the debugging and analysis of your handwritten embedded code and its output. It also provides IDE automation capabilities from MATLAB.

Cosimulating with Simulink

With Embedded IDE Link and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder, you can cosimulate your MATLAB and Simulink algorithm on the target processor or an instruction set simulator provided by the IDE with the simulation model acting as a test bench. This PIL simulation capability lets you functionally verify your models with the algorithms deployed on the target platform without having to manually create an embedded test harness.

Project Generation and Code Optimization with Real-Time Workshop

When used with Real-Time Workshop, which generates target-independent algorithm ANSI C code from MATLAB and Simulink models, Embedded IDE Link adds real-time embedded framework code that includes the scheduler and interrupt handling mechanisms required to run it in real time on a target processor.

Embedded IDE Link also adds processor-specific optimization tables that automatically replace ANSI C code with optimized intrinsics wherever possible, thus improving code execution performance with few manual changes to the code. With Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder, you can author your own target optimizations to further improve code efficiency.

Four processor support libraries in Simulink corresponding to the four IDEs supported by Embedded IDE Link: Altium® TASKING®, Analog Devices™ VisualDSP++®, Green Hills® MULTI®, and Texas Instruments™ Code Composer Studio™.