Specifications

2 RS232 I/O Support
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xPC Target interfaces the target PC to an RS-232 device using either the
COM1 or COM2 port.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Introduction to RS-232 Drivers — Description of hardware connections,
Simulink blocks, and MATALB message structures associated with the
Simulink blocks.
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RS-232 Synchronous Mode — Procedures to add an RS-232 driver block to
your Simulink model, and create the message structures associated with
those blocks.
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RS-232 Asynchronous Mode — Procedures to add RS-232 driver blocks to
your Simulink model, and create the message structures associated with
those blocks.
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RS-232 Simulink Block Reference — Description of block parameters for
Simulink RS-232 driver blocks.
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RS-232 MATLAB Structure Reference — Description of the fields in the
message structures, and data types supported in the message fields.