Simulink HDL Coder

Documenting and Tracing Code

Simulink HDL Coder helps you verify your generated code with:

• User-controlled comments and descriptions to improve code readability
• Model-to-code and code-to-model traceability
• Support for including requirements in the generated code, enabling DO-254 compliance

Model-to-code and code-to-model traceability. Simulink HDL Coder facilitates DO-254 compliance and design verification and validation.

Simulink HDL Coder documents the generated code in an HTML report that comprehensively describes the code modules and model optimization settings applied during HDL code generation. The report includes a summary section and a table of generated source files that are linked to your Simulink model. Selecting a source file in the MATLAB Help browser highlights the corresponding block in your model, making the code easy to trace and review. You can also highlight HDL code from Simulink blocks, Stateflow transitions and states, and MATLAB for bidirectional tracing. When used with Simulink Verification and Validation™, Simulink HDL Coder can embed system requirements within HDL code as comments. As a result, you can achieve complete transparency throughout the entire workflow, from system requirements to implemented HDL code.