The dSPACE Real-Time Control Environment

Introduction

The dSPACE Real-time Control Environment allows easy prototyping of controllers within the SIMULINK environment and downloading of these controllers to dedicated Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based systems for implementation.

Within the Faculty of Engineering we have two target dSPACE systems (Miniboxes) and can control them from SIMULINK running on SUN Workstations.

It is also possible to program the dSPACE miniboxes directly from C (using the Clib functions) and from within MATLAB (using the Mlib functions). This is not covered by any of the tutorials below.

Locally Written Tutorials available

• Getting Started with dSPACE describes what you need to do to start using the dSPACE system and introduces a simple example which does not use input/output.
• dSPACE Input/Output Example describes a dSPACE/SIMULINK example which uses the Analogue to Digital (ADC) and Digital to Analogue (DAC) capabilities of the Minibox systems.
• A Brief Guide to the SIMULINK Accelerator describes the use of the SIMULINK Accelerator and what is required to make it work. (Not written yet)
• A Brief Guide to the SIMULINK Real-Time Workshop describes the use of the SIMULINK Real-Time Workshop in general and its use with dSPACE hardware. (Not written yet)
• A Brief Guide to the Real-Time Interface to SIMULINK provides an introduction to using the SIMULINK real-Time Interface with dSPACE hardware, and in particular the Minibox computers. (Not written yet)
• A Brief Guide to TRACE provides a brief description of the capabilities of the TRACE program. (Incomplete)
• A Brief Guide to COCKPIT provides a brief description of the capabilities of the COCKPIT program.

Other Online Information

• Pinouts for dSPACE DS1102 Floating Controller Board

Paper Manuals Available

Most Useful dSPACE Manuals

• Real-Time Interface to SIMULINK, RTI31 ... User's Guide.
• Real-Time TRACE Module ... User's Guide, Reference Guide.
• COCKPIT Instrument Panel ... User's Guide, Reference Guide.
• Floating-Point Controller Board, DS1102 ... User's Guide.

Other dSPACE Manuals

• Getting Started.
• General Software Installation Guide.
• DSP Daemon Environment ... User's Guide.
• Network-Kit ... User's Guide.
• Slave-DSP Applications
• MLIB, MATLAB-DSP Interface Library ... User's Guide.
• Host-DSP Interface Library, CLIB ... Migration Guide.
• Host-DSP Interface Library, CLIB ... User's Guide.
• DS1102 Software Environment ... Reference Guide.
• DS1102 Program Loader, LD31 ... User's Guide.

Matlab Manuals

• Real-Time Workshop, For Use with SIMULINK ... User's Guide.
• SIMULINK, Accelerator ... User's Guide.

Texas Instruments TMS320 Manuals

• Microprocessor Development Systems ... Customer Support Guide.
• TMS320 Floating-Point DSP Code Generation Tools, Release 4.60 ... Getting Started.
• TMS320 Floating-Point DSP Optimizing C Compiler ... User's Guide.
• TMS320 Floating-Point DSP Assembly Language Tools ... User's Guide.
• TMS320C3x Peripheral Control Library ... User's Guide.
• TMS320C4x Parallel Runtime Support Library ... User's Guide.

Texas Instruments On-line

• Texas Instruments DSP Solutions
• Texas Instruments DSP Solutions On-Line Literature