Application Areas

Speedgoat real-time systems together with xPC Target from The MathWorks allow you to run and test your Simulink designs with your hardware in an early-as-possible stage using a flexible and independent development environment to prove your designs and continuously try new ideas.

Development platform:







Host/Target

Simulation and real-time testing development platform running your control design or plant simulation.






System under test
(Plant or controller prototype)

Depending on whether you design a control system or a plant simulation the following main application areas can be distinguished:

Application Areas

Rapid Control Prototyping Test your control design with your physical plant/ system running on a target machine (Target machine acts as your controller)
Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation Test your control hardware using a simulation of your physical plant/system running on a target machine (Target machine acts as your physical plant/system)

In addition, the xPC Target Embedded Option available separately at The MathWorks and extending xPC Target allows you to deploy your Simulink system design on Real-time target machines for one-off or small-medium quantity production series.

Benefits of real-time testing include:

  • prove the functional correctness of system designs in an early-as-possible stage
  • continuously try and implement new ideas using a production independent platform
  • automate and repeat test conditions and test interactions between all components
  • avoid the risk of test damages to expensive hardware and humans
  • test controller algorithms even in cases where a physical prototype isn’t available

Customer quote

"Up and running in less than a day!"

Darren Hartman,
HUSCO International

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