xPC Target

Hardware for Network Communication

You must install the following hardware before you install the xPC Target software and configure it for network communication:

• Network adapter card - When using xPC Target with TCP/IP, you must have a network adapter card correctly installed on both your host PC and your target PC. Then, you connect the host and target computers with a coaxial cable or unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable to your local area network (LAN).

Also, you can directly connect your computers together. Use a cross-over UDP cable with RJ45 connectors, or add BNC T-connectors to your Ethernet boards, connect with a normal coaxial cable, and add BNC-terminators at the ends.

• I/O boards - If you use I/O boards on your target PC, you need to correctly install the boards.

Supported Ethernet cards - xPC Target includes device drivers for specific network cards. The MathWorks supplies a PCI-bus Ethernet card with the xPC Target software for you to use in your target PC. This card is NE2000 compatible.

Note    The Ethernet card included with xPC Target supports a data transfer rate of 10 Mbit/s. We do not support a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet card.

The following are cases where you cannot use the Ethernet card we provide with xPC Target:

• You do not have an available PCI slot in your target PC
• You do not have a PCI-bus in your target PC
• You need to use an Ethernet card other then the card we provide with xPC Target

If one of the above cases applies, purchase one of the boards from the following list. We have tested these boards to be compatible with xPC Target.

Board Type	Board Number	xPC Target Driver
PCI	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1208T (RJ45)	NE2000
	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1208BT (RJ45, BNC)	NE2000
	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1208BTA (RJ45, BNC, AUI)	NE2000
ISA	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1660T (RJ45)	NE2000
	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1660BT (RJ45, BNC)	NE2000
	SMC EZ Card 10 SMC1660BTA (RJ45, BNC, AUI)	NE2000
PC/104	Real Time Devices USA CM202 (RJ45, BNC, AUI)	NE2000
	WinSystems Inc. PCM-NE2000-16 (RJ45)	NE2000
	WinSystems Inc. PCM-NE2000-16-BNC (BNC)	NE2000
SBC	Versalogic VSBC-6	SMC91C9X

Network Communication

Ethernet Card for a PCI-Bus