TargetLink 2.3: Code Efficiency and AUTOSAR Support Enhanced

Efficient code for vector signals and up-to-the-minute AUTOSAR support

Enhanced Code Efficiency

• As an option, code for blocks with vector signals can be generated as loops instead of single statements, which considerably reduces ROM consumption. TargetLink identifies vector sections that have the same characteristics and creates loops for them if a specified threshold is exceeded.
  
• To avoid unnecessary intermediate variables at the borders to atomic subsystems, code optimization now includes analysis functions.
  
• The procedure for analyzing whether to calculate individual blocks in every time step has been refined. This saves execution time, as more blocks can be moved to conditionally executed branches.
  

Support for AUTOSAR Standard 2.1

• Support for AUTOSAR 2.1 in addition to Version 2.0 SP3, particularly addressing calibration and measurement
  
• Mode switch events for switching ECU modes during the execution of AUTOSAR runnables
  
• Code efficiency of implicit sender-receiver communication enhanced by optimizing out superfluous stack variables
  

Choice of Four MATLAB^®-Versions

• Use the same TargetLink version for different MATLAB versions – for example, in different projects.
  
• Upgrade MATLAB without having to install a new TargetLink version.
  
• Upgrade TargetLink without having to install a new MATLAB version.
  

TargetLink 2.3 supports the last four releases: R2006a+, R2006b, R2007a+ and R2007b.

Further enhancements include options for generating table code without a map structure and automatic adjustment of the references to a dSPACE Data Dictionary object when it is renamed or moved. Target simulation support for the Infineon XC2000 processor in conjunction with the TASKING compiler rounds off the new version.