dSPACE now offers Version 4.4 of TargetLink, its industry-proven production code generator. The main new feature of TargetLink 4.4 is controller modeling with MATLAB code. The software also provides a range of new functions, improved usability, and optimizations that allow for more efficient and faster processes when testing production code.
Support of MATLAB Code in Simulink Models
With a new optional module, under license from MathWorks, TargetLink 4.4 now meets developers' requirements to describe algorithms and behavior directly with MATLAB code in a Simulink model. The TargetLink Module for MATLAB Code can be used to map exactly this modeling process. For the first time, production code developers are able to generate TargetLink's highly efficient C production code directly from control functions described with MATLAB code in Simulink models. In addition to using predefined blocks and state machines, developers can thus use another resource for modeling systems to implement using TargetLink.
Faster Testing and Validation of Production Code in Real Environment
Another new feature is that production code generated with TargetLink can be easily validated and tested on a dSPACE real-time system supported by the ConfigurationDesk implementation software. This allows users to immediately verify how the developed code works in a real-world environment.
New Features for Improved Distributed Development
TargetLink 4.4 complies with the AUTOSAR standard 4.3.1 and offers optimized options for designing AUTOSAR software components. For example, AUTOSAR splittable elements can be used to better separate the roles of software architects and developers during ARXML export. In addition, the visual representation of model libraries in the user interface has been improved, which also simplifies collaboration in distributed development. For processor-in-the-loop simulation, TargetLink 4.4 now supports instruction set simulators (ISS) from Lauterbach, so compiled production code can be executed and validated directly on an ISS as the target, and no hardware is required.
