In today’s technical world (e.g., in the automotive industry), more and more purely mechanical components get replaced by electro-mechanical ones. Thus the size and complexity of embedded systems steadily increases. To cope with this development, comfortable software engineering tools are being developed that allow a more functionality-oriented development of applications. This paper demonstrat...

Nowadays, the software for electronic control units in embedded systems is often developed using a chain of modelbased development tools. For example, in the field of automotive systems often tools like Matlab/Simulink and related code generation tools such as dSPACE TargetLink are used. To ensure that the produced models can be processed as expected by the employed tool chains, i.e., fulfill a...

This paper presents the design procedure and implementation results of a proposed software defined radio (SDR) using Altera Cyclone II family board. The implementation uses Matlab/Simulink, Embedded Matlab blocks, and Cyclone II development and educational board. The design has first implemented in Matlab/Simulink environment. It is then converted to VHDL level using Simulink HDL coder. The des...

A new educational power electronics laboratory based on state-of-the-art tools and industrial-grade platforms is presented in this paper. The developed laboratory, which is built based upon prior theoretical knowledge and background of the students in power electronics, combines the sophisticated Texas Instruments (TI)’s hardware tools with MATLAB/Simulink software tools to design, test, and ra...

This paper the authors mainly concern with the best order of the FIR filter using Boxcar windowing method. Simulation results give encouraging results regarding best order of the FIR Filters among the orders. A new method of implementation of best order of FIR Filter is proposed using MATLAB SIMULINK. Interesting results are obtained by comparing the different order filter’s cut-off frequency t...

The paper is focused on Predictive Control Algorithm design for time-invariant state space models of dynamic systems with various dynamics, (mechanical system-helicopter, hydraulical system three tanks with interaction). The predictive control algorithm based on state space models is verified by simulation schemes in language Matlab/Simulink using architecture of S-functions of the library Pred...

MATLAB/Simulink based system-level tools are becoming popular for FPGA designs these days. One major advantage offered by these tools is that the designer can make use of the ability of MATLAB/Simulink to perform arithmetic-level simulation, which is much faster than the behavioral and architectural simulations in traditional FPGA design flows. As energy efficiency of a design is becoming more ...

This paper shows real-time implementation of control algorithms from a simulation environment into the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Development of control algorithms is necessary for their use in a simulation environment and verification on simulation models. The real control system should be connected to the simulation environment with a PLC to test the control algorithms on a real phy...

Model based development is increasingly used to minimise costly and time consuming testing of physical prototypes during product development. Modelling and concept evaluation by using computer models for performance prediction will then be a substantial part of the PD process synthesis-analysis loop. However, easy-to-use and flexible methods have to be used for modelling, especially during prod...