Real-Time Windows Target

What Is the Real-Time Windows Target?

The Real-Time Windows Target is a PC solution for prototyping and testing real-time systems. It is an environment where you use a single computer as a host and target.

In this environment you use your desktop or laptop PC with MATLAB®, Simulink®, and Stateflow® (optional) to create models using Simulink blocks and Stateflow diagrams.

After creating a model and simulating it with Simulink in normal mode, you can generate executable code with Real-Time Workshop®, Stateflow Coder (optional) and a C compiler. Then, you can run your application in real time with Simulink external mode.

Integration between Simulink external mode and the Real-Time Windows Target allows you to use your Simulink model as a graphical user interface for

• Signal visualization -- Use the same Simulink Scope blocks that you use to visualize signals during a nonreal-time simulation, to visualize signals while running a real-time application.
• Parameter tuning -- Use the Block Parameter dialog boxes to change parameters in your application while it is running in real time.

Typical applications for the Real-Time Windows Target include

• Real-time control -- Create a prototype of automotive, computer peripheral, and instrumentation control systems.
• Real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation -- Create a prototype of controllers connected to a physical plant. For example, the physical plant could be an automotive engine. Create a prototype of a plant connected to an actual controller. For example, the prototyped plant could be an aircraft engine.
• Education -- Teach concepts and procedures for modeling, simulating, testing real-time systems, and iterating designs.

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