Performance real-time target machine - xPC Target compliance

The Performance real-time target machine is made and optimized for the use with Simulink and xPC Target. Together they form a complete software/hardware development platform for Rapid Controller Prototyping and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation.

For further information about this complete solution visit the xPC Target Turnkey webpage of The MathWorks.

I/O connectivity with Simulink and xPC Target
Each Speedgoat real-time target machine comes with an extensive set of drivers and tools for xPC Targt. Furthermore a Simulink test model is provided exercising the installed I/O modules.

Required third-party software
The required software from The MathWorks is listed here. Supported C/C++ compilers for the current release of xPC Target can be found here. An overview of supported compilers for xPC Targer for previous releases is available here. Make sure that you scroll down to the supported Compiler for xPC Target and not Simulink.

Speedgoat recommends the use of the freely available Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition for R2011a and the 2008 Express Edition for previous releases.

Ethernet controller compatibility with xPC Target
Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000Mb/s) support for host-target communcation is supported by xPC Target version 3.1 and higher. If the machine has to be used in conjunction with a former version of xPC Target the machine can be delivered with a 10/100Mb/s compatible Ethernet card installed into one of the PCI slots

Boot and kernel transfer methods
The standard BIOS works in quick boot mode and loads the xPC Target kernel within seconds from the Compact Flash device. This device or if required a hard disk can be accessed by xPC Target's real-time file system.

The kernels can be booted via the Compact Flash disk and DOS (DOS is discarded after kernel load process completed). For this, Speedgoat pre-installs FreeDOS on the Compact Flash disk. This version of DOS also supports accessing USB memory devices. This simplifies the exchange of kernels and other files between host and target machine. As an alternative, it is still possible to boot via an external USB floppy drive (classic method).

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