MathWorks Extends FPGA Support For Model-Based Design to xPC Target

By DE Editors

MathWorks has announced the availability of xPC Target 5.0, which provides support for FPGAs. Now engineers can leverage automatically generated HDL to program FPGA boards from Simulink models for execution on xPC Target Turnkey systems. As a result, the company says engineers can prototype and validate their Simulink designs in a high-performance, real-time target system and speed up their development cycle.

With xPC Target, computationally intensive algorithms can now run on FPGA boards. Control systems engineers can program FPGA boards for xPC Target Turnkey systems using code generated by Simulink HDL Coder, accelerating designs to meet higher performance requirements. The new capability offers the ability to reconfigure digital input/output (I/O) modules and to implement high-speed algorithms for controls or signal processing within real-time testing and prototyping environments.

In addition to FPGA support, other key new product features include:

• Task-levelprofiling of execution times to help with load balancing
• Supportfor cameras based on the Camera Link interface standard
• Imageacquisition from USB webcams
• Abilityto send and receive UDP packets in real time

xPC Target is available starting at $4,000 US. 

For more information, visit MathWorks.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.