Real-Time Interface (RTI)

Implementation software for running models on dSPACE hardware

RTI lets you concentrate fully on the actual design process and carry out fast design iterations. It extends the C code generator Simulink Coder™ (formerly Real-Time Workshop®) for the seamless, automatic implementation of your Simulink and Stateflow models on the real-time hardware.

  • Automatic implementation of MATLAB®/Simulink®/ Stateflow® models on dSPACE hardware
  • Automatic code generation
  • Graphical I/O configuration via comprehensive Simulink block libraries

Application Areas

No matter whether you are performing rapid control prototyping or hardware-in-the-loop simulation: Real-Time Interface (RTI) is the link between dSPACE hardware and the development software MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow from MathWorks®.

Working with RTI

To connect your model to a dSPACE I/O board, just drag the I/O module from the RTI block library onto your model and then connect it to the Simulink blocks. All settings, such as parameterization, are available by clicking the appropriate blocks. Simulink Coder™ (formerly Real-Time Workshop®) generates the model code while RTI provides blocks that implement the I/O capabilities of dSPACE systems in your Simulink models, thus preparing the model for the real-time application. Your real-time model is compiled, downloaded, and started automatically on your real-time hardware, without you having to write a single line of code. RTI guides you through the configuration. RTI provides consistency checks, so potential errors can be identified and corrected before or during the build process.

Comprehensive Functionalities

 RTI handles any kind of continuous-time, discrete-time, and multirate system. Depending on the I/O hardware, different channels of the same I/O board can be used with different sample rates, and even in different subsystems. RTI supports asynchronous events and lets you set task priorities and task overrun strategies for executing the interrupt-driven subsystems. It also supports time-triggered tasks and timetables, which let you implement tasks and groups of tasks with variable or predefined delay times in relation to an associated trigger event. This makes task handling in your model very flexible. In addition, RTI offers checks that help avoid double or improper use of channels.

Key Benefits

RTI lets you concentrate fully on the actual design process and carry out fast design iterations. It extends the C code generator Simulink Coder™ (formerly Real-Time Workshop®) for the seamless, automatic implementation of your Simulink and Stateflow models on the real-time hardware. The implementation time is greatly reduced. RTI guides you through the hardware configuration and provides automatic consistency checks to avoid parameterization errors. For maximum flexibility, each RTI version supports several different MATLAB releases (see www.dspace.com/go/Compatibility). Models from most previous MATLAB and RTI releases are migrated automatically when newer versions of RTI are used.

Functionality Description
I/O configuration
  • Comprehensive block library for specifying the hardware setup
Generating real-time code
  • Generation of C code by Simulink Coder™ (formerly Real-Time Workshop®)
  • C code optimization for real-time implementations
  • Support of Simulink Coder (formerly Real-Time Workshop) code optimizations
  • Generation of initialization functions and I/O function calls
Automatic task definition
  • Support of multirate systems and preemptive, priority-based multitasking
  • Single timer and multiple timer task mode
  • Asynchronous tasks
  • External hardware interrupts
  • Software interrupts
  • Configurable priority and overrun handling for each task
  • Turnaround time measurement for each task
  • Optional synchronization of periodic timer tasks to external events
  • Time-triggered tasks and timetables
  • Non-real-time simulation modes
Invoking the compiler
  • Automatic compiler call that compiles and links the model
Loading and starting the application
  • Program download to the real-time hardware
  • Simulation control
  • Interactive control, monitoring, and data acquisition with ControlDesk
  • Data acquisition with time stamps, directly on MicroAutoBox II for long-term simulation

RTI-MP Pour une installation graphique des structures multiprocesseurs RTI CAN Blockset Configurer toutes les interfaces CAN dans Simulink RTI CAN MultiMessage Blockset Pour combiner les systèmes dSPACE aux réseaux de communication CAN dSPACE FlexRay Configuration Package Pour la configuration graphique des systèmes de communication FlexRay RTI Bypass Blockset Configuration des applications de bypass et accès au calculateur en temps réel basés sur dialogue RTI LIN MultiMessage Blockset Configuration de nœuds et de bus LIN à partir de Simulink RTI FPGA Programming Blockset Intégrer des modèles FPGA dans des systèmes dSPACE RapidPro Control Unit Sous-système intelligent d’E/S pour les systèmes de prototypage dSPACE.
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