Modeling Guidelines

Best Practices for TargetLink^® Models

• More productivity in the development process
• Seamless transition from control design to software development
• Tips on efficient code, MISRA conformity, transparent models, and many others

Boost Development Productivity
New modeling guidelines for TargetLink, produced jointly with a German OEM, aim to optimize the generation of efficient C code from control algorithms. Currently, models often require reworking at the interface between control design and software development. The new guidelines cut out a lot of this extra work and boost development productivity.

Contents of the Modeling Guidelines
The TargetLink Modeling Guidelines comprise around 150 rules, covering the following aspects:

• Transparent controller layout
  Like coding guidelines at software level, modeling rules enhance transparency and readability at model level.
• Suitable language subset
  The defined subset of language elements from MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow allows optimum implementation by TargetLink.
• Optimum fixed-point code
  The rules provide a guide to converting models into highly efficient fixed-point code, complementing the features (autoscaling, etc.) that TargetLink already contains.
• Code generation options
  The guidelines describe optimization settings for handling variables and functions to generate efficient code.
• MISRA compliance
  The rules help to ensure that the generated code will have maximum compliance with MISRA C.

TargetLink users can obtain the Modeling Guidelines (PDF document) free of charge from Technical Sales at info@dspace.com