New Features and Migration - dSPACE

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■▼ Key Features of dSPACE Release 5.0▲■■■■■■■■■New MTest element foradditional documentsFaster access toinitialization filesUpdating a test frameFixed-point supportConfiguring evaluationmethods for MTest testelementsTesting of TargetLinkmodulesNFor large descriptions, additional data information or other relevantsources for a test, you can now add a Document element to yourMTest project and manage it via MTest.All Properties dialogs in which you can specify an initialization file nowhave a button to open the initialization file in an editor.If you have customized the generated test frame, for example, byadding blocks or subsystems to the test frame, or modifying theeffective test interface, you can now update the containing test object– with the same interface – without creating a new test frame andrecustomizing the interface.MTest now supports fixed-point data types. MTest recognizesfixed-point data types used in the interface of the test object. You canalso specify additional signals in fixed-point data type notation to beused for the test interface.Formerly, you specified an evaluation configuration for each testexecution environment type (Simulink, MIL, SIL, PIL). You can nowspecify an evaluation configuration for the MTest test element. Eachchild element then uses this evaluation method. You can still specify anindividual evaluation method for each test execution environmenttype.TargetLink modules are now selectable as test objects in MTest. If aTargetLink module contains a TargetLink Function block and itsinterface has TargetLink inports and outports, the test results for themodel and the generated code will be comparable. If the interface ofthe TargetLink module does not have TargetLink inports and outports,MTest automatically inserts the required TargetLink ports in the testframe. To achieve comparable results in SIL and PIL mode as well, youmust configure the ports before starting a test.The dSPACE tool for updating AutomationDesk projects cannot beused for MTest projects.dSPACE Release New Features and Migration November 2005 27▲■■■■■■■■■■■■