Using BEACON to generate embedded software from Simulink models

Computer aided control system design (CACSD) toolsets are used to model, design, and analyze physical plants and the functional requirements of their associated controllers. Embedded software development (ESD) toolset are used during later stages of product development; their purpose is to support the design, generation, and testing of software for embedded controllers. The algorithms that the embedded controllers implement are often initially designed and analyzed in a CACSD toolset. Applied Dynamics has developed a methodology to be used to build bridges between CACSD and ESD toolset. This methodology consists of a software-design level layered on top of the CASCD modeling layer. At present, this methodology has its initial realization as a tool that converts a controller algorithm in Mathworks´ Simulink and state-flow CACSD toolset into a controller implementation in Applied Dynamics´ BEACON ESD toolset. This initial tool serves as a testbed for refinement of the underlying methodology