Programming of the DSP2 board with the Matlab/Simulink

The DSP2 board, based on the digital signal processor, has been developed at the Institute of Robotic, FERI, University of Maribor. For the mentioned board a set of Simulink blocks, so called DSP2 library for Simulink, was created under a real-time workshop. These blocks enable easy graphical programming of the different control algorithms under the Matlab/Simulink. At the end, with the real-time workshop and the code composer for the C3x4x digital signal processors, the binary executable code can be generated from the Simulink model and downloaded to the DSP2 board, where it is executed in real time. The DSP2 library for Simulink in combination with the DSP terminal, which was also developed at the at same institute, enables easy online monitoring of the DSP2 variables in the text or graphical mode and the parameter tuning, meanwhile the generated code is executed on the DSP2 board. With the DSP2 library for Simulink, the development time of the different control algorithms that are executed on the DSP2 board is reduced.