This white paper describes the tools, design flow, and verification of systems using Altera® FPGAs. It discusses the techniques of software simulation and hardware testing, and the challenges associated with them. This paper also describes the advantages of using the Hardware in the Loop (HIL) tool, which is part of Altera’s software tools, to simplify software simulation and hardware testing i...

Paper deals with design and implementation of portable data acquisition unit based on 8-bit microcontroller Freescale 68HC908GP32 in process control and supervision applications. Its hardware design is adopted to fulfill high reliability and immunity against industrial environment, high precision and compact dimensions. Communication with supervision system is performed via standard RS232 inter...

Virtual Reality Simulation plays important role in teleoperation of lunar rovers during exploration phase as well as in the design of rover and its systems, performance evaluation during R&D phase. Present simulation methods for lunar rovers have several drawbacks in terms of difficulty in simulating terrains, rover terrain interfaces, simulating dynamics of slip and slide to realize smooth mob...

Sharing data between GIS software (Arc/Info) and Traffic Demand Modeling Software (EMME/2) has long been an issue of interest to traffic engineers. A literature review and evaluation of current efforts on the data exchange is given in this paper. The authors also developed their own economical method to realize the data transform through Matlab programming. As a practice, a model of the truck f...

This paper presents a rapid software prototyping environment, based on Matlab/Simulink, for realtime simulation and control of a mini-helicopter robot. The application of the environment is illustrated with a software-in-the-loop simulation example. The environment is integrated by own modules (mini-helicopter simulation model, navigation filter, multirate control, filters) and modules based on...

SUMMARY We present SBMLToolbox, a toolbox that facilitates importing and exporting models represented in the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) in and out of the MATLAB environment and provides functionality that enables an experienced user of either SBML or MATLAB to combine the computing power of MATLAB with the portability and exchangeability of an SBML model. SBMLToolbox supports all le...

This report explores the use of multiple computational cores by multithreading in the software package Matlab on a compute node with two dual-core AMD Opteron processors. After testing the built-in functions of Matlab for a small test problem, we consider a classical test problem resulting from a finite difference discretization of the Poisson equation in two spatial dimensions. The results dem...