User`s guide

5 Embedded Option
Introduction
The xPC Target Embedded Option software allows you to boot the xPC Target
kernel from a 3.5-inch disk drive a n d other devices, including a flash disk or a
hard disk drive. By using the xPC Target Em bedded Option software, you
can configure a target PC to automatically start execution of your embedded
application for continuous operation each time the system is booted. You
can use this capability to deploy your own real-time applications on target
PC hardware. You can also control the target application using custom GUIs
or the W eb browser interface when de ploy ing the application w ith the xPC
Target Em be dded Option so ftw are. You can deploy GU I s that you develop
with the xPC Target API and the COM API on any host Microsoft
®
Windows
®
system without MATLAB software.
The xPC Target Embedded Option software has Standalone mode. This mode
bundles the kernel and target application into one e ntity that you can copy
onto a device such a s the target PC hard drive. This mode allows the target
PC to run as a stand-alon e PC with the target application alre ad y loaded.
You can control the real-time application with the command-line interface
using a keyboard on the target PC.
This feature uses the xPC Target API with any programming environment,
or the xPC Target COM A PI with any p rogram ming environment, such as
Visual Basic
®
, that can use C OM objects. See the xPC Target API Guide for
further information.
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