xPC Target 4.2

Introduction

xPC Target™ provides a high-performance host-target environment that enables you to connect your Simulink® and Stateflow® models to physical systems and execute them in real time on low-cost PC-compatible hardware. xPC Target includes proven capabilities for rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and application deployment in an open hardware architecture.

With xPC Target, you design your models on a host PC, generate code with Real-Time Workshop® and Stateflow Coder™, and download the code to a target PC running the xPC Target real-time kernel. You can use 32-bit or 64-bit x86-based computers as real-time target PCs. The software runs in 32-bit mode.

Using xPC Target Embedded Option™, available separately, you can deploy real-time embedded systems on standalone target PC hardware for production, control, signal processing, data acquisition, calibration, and test applications. A host PC is not required to use xPC Target Embedded Option.

Key Features

• Real-time kernel for running applications generated from Simulink and Stateflow models on PC-compatible hardware
• Real-time operation using a variety of PC platforms including desktop PC, PC/104, PC/104+, CompactPCI, industrial PC, and single-board computers
• Flexible boot options, including CD, hard disk, CompactFlash, network, and floppy disk
• Sample rates approaching 50 KHz, depending on processor performance level, model size, and I/O complexity
• Real-time tuning of application parameters
• Real-time signal display and data logging for post-test analysis
• Support for more than 300 commercial off-the-shelf I/O boards in an extensive device driver library
• Open hardware driver environment, supporting third-party drivers from system integrators and hardware manufacturers
• C and COM APIs, letting you programmatically develop graphical user interfaces to access and control real-time applications

Host-target prototyping environment using a laptop PC as the host computer and an industrial PC as the real-time target. Click on image to see enlarged view.