Simulink's Audio Reverberation demo with ADSP-BF537 EZ-KIT Lite - unable to connect

Hi,

I'm a seasoned Matlab user but a newbie with Simulink and embedded systems, and I'm trying to run Simulink's Audio Reverberation demo (bf537ezkitlite_afxr) using the ADSP-BF537 EZ-KIT Lite. I'm also using ADI's VisualDSP++ 5.0 Update 9.1, and my OS is Win 7 v6.1 (Build 7600). The problem is that I cannot connect to the EZ-KIT from simulink. When double-clicking the ADSP-BD537-icon, I get the window showing the board properties, etc., but when pressing the "Get from IDE"-button on the "IDE Support"-section, I get the following error message:

"Could not get settings from the IDE: You cannot invoke LISTSESSIONS on a 64-Bit Microsoft® Windows® platform. The IDE Link adaptor for use with Analog Devices™ VisualDSP++® is not supported on this platform. Refer to the IDE Link System Requirements for platforms supported by this adaptor."

I noted that a similar problem was reported in http://ez.analog.com/message/24946 , but it is unclear if it was solved or not. Does the above error mean that there is no way to run the reverberation demo due to the 64-bit os? When trying to run an incremental build, simulink gives the error:

"The call to idelink_ert_make_rtw_hook, during the entry hook generated the following error: Could not connect to the board specified in Target Preferences block.

The build process will terminate as a result."

Obviously, it's really not only the reverberation demo I'm interested in; I'm going to implement a real-time effect algorithm, and the simulink demo just seemed like a nice place to start (it'd speed up things if I could use simulink and matlab in the coding).

Any help much appreciated, Jyri

Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

What version of MATLAB are you using? It looks like the latest release (R2011a) does support Windows 64-bit: http://www.mathworks.com/products/embedded-coder/requirements.html

(Note that Embedded IDE Link and other related products has been re-organized into a single product called Embedded Coder starting in R2011a)

[Jyri]

Thanks for the swift action!

I'm using version 7.12.0.635 (R2011a) of Matlab with Embedded Coder 6.0, so things should be OK in that sense.

[Kaustubha Govind]

Hmm.. In that case, I would recommend contacting Tech Support to get official word on support of IDE Link for Visual DSP++ on 64-bit Windows machines. I'm not sure if it might be acceptable to run 32-bit MATLAB on a 64-bit Windows machine to attain this functionality.

[abeer jaradat]

Hi, I'm using visualdsp++ 5.0, MATLAB 2010a and my OS is win XP sp3. I'm using the same kit but the c-code "generated by embedded IDE link for the Audio reverberation algorithm" doesn't work properly when i ran it on bf537 ez-kit lite

thanks in advance, Abeer