
1 Introduction
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What Is xPC Target?
xPC Target is a solution for prototyping, testing, and deploying real-time
systems using standard PC hardware. It is an environment that uses a target
PC, separate from a host PC, for running real-time applications.
This section includes the following topics:
• xPC Target
• xPC Target Embedded Option
• “Using This Guide”
xPC Target
xPC Target is a high performance host-target prototyping environment that
enables you to connect your Simulink® and Stateflow® models to physical
systems and execute them in real time on PC-compatible hardware. xPC
Target is ideal for rapid controller prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop
simulation of control and data processing systems. It enables you to add I/O
blocks to your models, automatically generate code with Real-Time
Workshop®, and download the code to a second PC running the xPC Target
real-time kernel.
xPC Target lets you use PC-compatible hardware with Intel, AMD, and other
x86-compatible CPUs as your real-time target PC. The target PC can be a
desktop computer, a rack-mount or an industrial computer, a PC/104 or
PC/104+, CompactPCI, or an all-in-one embedded PC computer. This lets you
choose the right platform for your rapid prototyping applications without
changing your development environment.
xPC Target lets you use your Simulink and Stateflow models further into your
design process by:
• Providing real-time target and I/O capabilities on any PC-compatible system
• Eliminating the need to customize or write any code
Using xPC Target, you can solve many specific rapid controller prototyping
applications or hardware-in-the-loop simulations by using a high performance
mainstream environment.
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