User`s guide

2 Getting Started with the Real-Time Workshop
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Basic Concepts in the Real-Time Workshop
Before going through a step-by-step example of how to target specific hardware
using the Real-Time Workshop, it is important to understand concepts basic to
the product. These include:
• Generic real-time
• Targeting
• Target Language Compiler files
• The Build process
• Template makefiles
• Configuring the template makefile
• Specifying model parameters
Generic Real-Time
The Real-Time Workshop provides a generic real-time development target.
Generic real-time is:
• An environment for simulating fixed-step models in single or multitasking
mode on your workstation
• A means by which you can perform code validation
• A starting point for targeting “in-house” or custom hardware
Targeting
To use the Real-Time Workshop, you must decide on the environment where
you want to place the generated code. This is known as targeting,the
environment itself is called the target.Thehost is where you run MATLAB,
Simulink, and the Real-Time Workshop. Using the build tools on the host, you
create code and an executable that runs on your target system.
The system target file and the template makefile, which are files that you must
specify on the Real-Time Workshop page of the
Simulation Parameters dialog
box, define what type of target you have. The table below lists examples of