Real-Time Workshop

Getting Started

Real-Time Workshop® builds applications from Simulink diagrams for prototyping, testing, and deploying real-time systems on a variety of target computing platforms. Users of Real-Time Workshop can direct it to generate source code that accommodates the compilers, input and output devices, memory models, communication modes, and other characteristics that their applications may require.

This guide summarizes the concepts, capabilities, user interface, and applications of Real-Time Workshop, to help you become productive with it as quickly as possible. It includes the following chapters:

• Introducing Real-Time Workshop -- Presents an overview of installation procedures, Real-Time Workshop demos, available documentation, and descriptions of related products.
• Building an Application -- Describes how Real-Time Workshop compiles models to construct stand-alone applications, what files are generated, and how they are organized.
• Working with Real-Time Workshop -- Summarizes Real-Time Workshop concepts and terms, and provides a set of tutorials to get you started generating code right away.

This Getting Started guide is an introduction to the Real-Time Workshop documentation, which covers in detail technical topics such as code formats, rapid prototyping, communications, optimizations, and targeting. You may further customize code for targets and blocks by preparing Target Language Compiler scripts. The Target Language Compiler Reference Guide, which is also part of this documentation set, describes these advanced techniques.

Introducing Real-Time Workshop