Real-Time Windows Target

Signal Acquisition and Analysis

Signals may be acquired, displayed, and saved by using Simulink Scope blocks and Simulink external mode. This lets you observe the behavior of your model during a simulation or your application while it runs in real time.

You can acquire signal data while running your real-time application using:

• Signal Tracing - This is the process of acquiring and visualizing signals during a real-time run. It allows you to acquire signal data and visualize it on your computer while the executable is running.
• Signal Logging - This is the process for acquiring signal data during a real-time run. After the run reaches its final time or you manually stop the run, you can plot and analyze the data.

You can save (log) data to variables in the MATLAB workspace or save data to your disk drive with MAT-files.

Signal logging differs from signal tracing. With signal logging you can only look at a signal after a run is finished.

For more information, see the sections Signal Logging to the MATLAB Workspace and Signal Logging to a Disk Drive.

Real-Time Application

Parameter Tuning