Real-Time Workshop

Help and Documentation

Real-Time Workshop software is shipped with this Getting Started guide. Users of this book should be familiar with

• Using Simulink and Stateflow to create models as block diagrams, and running such simulations in Simulink, and interpreting output in the MATLAB workspace
• High-level programming language concepts applied to real-time systems

While you do not need to program in C or other programming languages in order to create, test, and deploy real-time systems using Real-Time Workshop, successful emulation and deployment of real-time systems involves working familiarity with their parameters and design constraints. The Real-Time Workshop documentation assumes you have a basic understanding of real-time system concepts, terminology, and environments. The documentation is available online at http://www.mathworks.com, through the MATLAB Help browser, and also in the form of PDF documents that you can view online or print.

This section includes the following topics:

• Online Documentation--Where to find Help online (HTML documents)
• Printing the Documentation--Printable versions (PDF documents)
• For Further Information--A guide to major help topics

Online Documentation

Access to the online information for Real-Time Workshop is through MATLAB or from the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com/support/. Click on that page's Documentation link. To access the documentation with the MATLAB Help browser, use the following procedure:

1. In the MATLAB window, and from the View menu, click Help. Or from the Help menu, click Full Product Family Help.

1. The Help browser window opens.

2. In the left pane, click the Real-Time Workshop book icon.

1. The Help browser displays the Real-Time Workshop Roadmap page in the right pane. Click on any link there, or click on the "+" sign to the left of the book icon in the left pane to reveal the table of contents. When you do so, the "+" changes to a "-", which will hide the topics under it when you click on it.

Printing the Documentation

The following manuals are available on the documentation CD as PDF files. You can also download them from the Real-Time Workshop Roadmap Web page: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/rtw/rtw.shtml

The CD locations listed below assume your CD-ROM drive is listed as Z:.

• Getting Started with Real-Time Workshop--Located at Z:\help\pdf_doc\rtw\rtw_gs.pdf
• Real-Time Workshop User's Guide--Located at
  Z:\help\pdf_doc\rtw\rtw_ug.pdf
• Target Language Compiler Reference Guide--Located at
  Z:\help\pdf_doc\rtw\targetlanguagecompiler.pdf

The last two books are not distributed in printed form. You are welcome to print the PDF versions. When preparing to print, please be aware that each one has more than 500 pages.

For Further Information

The Real-Time Workshop User's Guide documents in detail the capabilities of Real-Time Workshop. For a topical overview of its contents, see How Do I....

You can extensively customize output from Real-Time Workshop at the block, target, and makefile levels. For advanced uses, you may have to prepare or modify Target Language Compiler files. See the Target Language Compiler documentation for further descriptions.

Real-Time Workshop Demos

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