xPC Target

Software Environment

The software environment is a place to design, build, and test a target application in nonreal-time and real-time. It also includes communication between the host and target computers.

This section includes the following topics:

• Host-Target Communication - Control the target application, upload signal data, and download parameter values.
• Rapid Prototyping Process - Design and build a target application on a host PC. Download the target application to a target PC. Run and test the target application with interactive tuning of parameters and acquisition of data.
• Embedded Process - Boot the kernel from a device other than the floppy disk drive, but download the target application from the host PC. Or boot the kernel/application from the floppy disk drive or another device, and run the target application completely separate from the host PC.

Input/Output Driver Support

Host-Target Communication