Course Highlights

This hands-on, three-day course focuses on developing models in the Simulink® environment to deploy on embedded systems. The course is designed for Simulink users who intend to generate, validate, and deploy embedded code using Embedded Coder™.

Topics include:

• Generated code structure and execution
• Code generation options and optimizations
• Integrating generated code with external code
• Generating code for multirate systems
• Customizing generated code
• Customizing data
• Deploying code

Course Objectives

The aim of this course is to show the capabilities of Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder for development of production code that is optimized for speed, memory usage, and simplicity.
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Course Benefits

Upon the completion of the course, the participants will be able to generate code for a particular development board, and deploy the code on target hardware with cross-development system.

Course Outline

Day 1
Generating Embedded Code
Objective: Configure Simulink models for embedded code generation and effectively interpret the generation code.

• System Specification
• Data Structures in Generating code
• Generating ERT code
• Real-Time workshop software build in process
• Code Modules

• Overview of Model entry points
• Configuring Data exchange with external code

• Using an execution harness
• Generating code for multirate system
• Including custom routines

• Optimization considerations
• Removing unnecessary code

• Code Generation objective
• Removing unnecessary data support
• Optimizing Data storage
• Configure wizards

• Data Characteristics
• Data Type classification
• Simulink Data type configuration

• Simulink Storage classes
• Setting signal storage classes
• Setting parameter storage classes
• Impact of storage classes on symbols
  
  

Customizing Data Characteristics Using Data Objects
Objective: Control data types and design custom storage using data objects

• Simulink data objects overview
• Controlling data types with Data object
• Creating reconfiguration data types
• Effect of storage classes on symbols
• Custom storage classes
• Using predefined custom storage classes
• Designing custom storages classes
• Controlling Data types names
• Controlling variables names
  

• Simulink model architecture
• Controlling Simulink code partitioning
• Generating reusable code
• Data placement options
• Priority of data placement controls

• Review of code generation process
• Overview of code generation templates
• Defining code generation templates
• Using code generation templates

• Motivation for custom target
• Custom target development process

• Target directory structure
• The system target file
• Configuring the PRT custom target
• Template make files
• Intervening in the build process
• Setting up configuration pararmeters.

Introduction to Developing Device Drivers
Objective: Identify the necessary components templates and steps for developing device drivers.

• Overview of device drivers
• Using the legacy code tool
• Customizing device drivers components
• Creating Device driver library

• Model based Design for embedded systems development
• System specification
• Algorithm Simulation
• Software-in-the-Loop(SIL)
• Code generation

• The Model adviser
• Hardware Implementation parameters
• Compliance with standards and guidelines