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To help automotive customers streamline model-based software
development, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has
introduced the RAppID ToolBox, a software solution that supports
on-target, rapid prototyping for Freescale’s
32-bit MPC5500 automotive microcontroller (MCU) family.
The RAppID ToolBox is designed to help control engineers reduce
development time and cost when migrating from their application modeling
environment to real-world implementations on automotive MCU platforms
intended for production. The toolbox provides an ideal prototyping
solution for a variety of automotive applications, such as engine and
transmission control, anti-lock braking systems and chassis/suspension
systems. Developers also can use the toolbox for non-automotive
applications ranging from avionic systems to industrial printers to
power generators.
“As microcontrollers become more powerful and
feature-rich to address more complex applications, developers need
access to more sophisticated yet easy to use prototyping solutions like
the RAppID ToolBox,” said Salim Momin,
director of Freescale’s Virtual Garage
software and services business unit. “Control
engineers can use the RAppID ToolBox to determine how their applications
will perform on target MCUs early in the development cycle and then work
on optimization at the model level rather than at the code level.”
Streamlined development through on-target rapid prototyping
Control engineers often validate their control models functionally by
running auto-generated C code on commercially available rapid
prototyping hardware. However, the prototyping hardware usually does not
represent the MCU targeted for production. As a result, the engineers
may not know the control algorithm’s actual
performance on the production MCU. In addition, engineers prefer to run
their control algorithms on target MCUs early in the development cycle
to validate their device selection. However, this can be a difficult,
time-consuming task if they have to write the initialization, device
drivers and scheduler code by hand, which adds to the development cycle
time.
Freescale’s RAppID ToolBox addresses these
challenges by enabling engineers to execute their control models on
MPC5500 MCU family hardware without writing code and to profile the
execution of the code on their target MCU. The RAppID ToolBox thus helps
reduce development time by allowing engineers to work in their actual,
real-world control environment.
Using the profiling feature of the RAppID ToolBox, application
developers can study the performance of their control strategy on the
target microcontroller early in the design cycle. The toolbox eliminates
the need to invest in expensive prototyping hardware by supporting rapid
prototyping on cost-effective evaluation boards for MPC5500 family
devices, such as the MPC5554 MCU. Optimized DSP blocks enable developers
to take advantage of the single-instruction/multiple-data (SIMD)
capabilities of the MPC5554.
Integrated with industry-standard modeling and code-generation
environments
The RAppID ToolBox leverages the powerful modeling and simulation
environment provided by The MathWorks product family with an add-on
blockset for MATLAB® and Simulink®,
and an embedded target for Real-Time Workshop®
and Real-Time Workshop® Embedded Coder. It
supports Signal Processing Toolbox for optimized single instruction
multiple data (SIMD) functions and Stateflow®
for interactive design and simulation.
Using the RAppID ToolBox, developers can quickly execute and evaluate
their complex control algorithms on MPC5500 family platforms. The
toolbox automatically generates the necessary software, from
initialization to device drivers to schedulers, including support for
Freescale's OSEKturbo real-time operating system (RTOS). The
toolbox-generated code integrates seamlessly with commercial automatic
code generation tools, such as TargetLink from dSPACE and Real-Time
Workshop and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.
About Freescale’s Virtual Garage
The Virtual Garage is a Freescale strategic business unit that provides
software solutions and services to the transportation industry. The
Virtual Garage mission is to enable customers to adopt a true “systems
engineering” methodology based on modeling
and simulation; these systems engineering solutions help decrease
traditional development cycle times and cost while improving overall
system quality. In addition to providing software solutions to
developers in the automotive, aerospace/defense, printing and industrial
automation industries, the Virtual Garage also collaborates with
universities by providing software tools, such as the RAppID ToolBox for
use as curricula in control engineering classes.
RAppID system requirements and compatibility
-- Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP
-- 512MB RAM recommended
-- Minimum 1GHz processor recommended
-- Standard screen resolutions supported
-- Modeling Environment: MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, Signal
Processing Toolbox
-- Code-generators: Real-Time Workshop, Real-Time Workshop Embedded
Coder from The MathWorks or TargetLink from dSPACE
-- Embedded targets:
-- Support for Freescale, Green Hills Software and Wind River
(DIAB) compilers
-- Generic schedule target with multi-rate,
synchronous/asynchronous task support
-- Freescale OSEKturbo target
-- Built-in consistency checks between target and model
-- Compatible with:
-- MATLAB Version R14sp1, R14sp2, R14sp3 and R2006a
-- TargetLink Version 2.1
RAppID ToolBox availability
The first RAppID ToolBox offering for the MPC5554 MCU is available now
from Freescale’s Virtual Garage. Software
support for additional MPC5500 family devices is planned for the future.
For more information about the RAppID ToolBox, visit http://www.freescale.com/files/pr/vg.html.
Freescale: The leader in automotive semiconductors
Freescale is the No. 1 supplier of automotive semiconductors, with more
than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Freescale
technology is used in an overwhelming majority of new vehicles. Freescale’s
sensors, analog products, and 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontroller
families provide intelligence and connectivity for advanced safety, body
electronics, chassis, engine control, powertrain, driver information and
telematics. Freescale is a pioneer in FlexRay™
technology and was the first supplier to integrate CAN, LIN and flash
memory technologies on automotive MCUs.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader
in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the
automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.
Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company is
based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development,
manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale,
a member of the S&P 500®, is one of the
world’s largest semiconductor companies with
2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
www.freescale.com.
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Denver, CO 80217 USA
Freescale™ and the Freescale logo
are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or
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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 2006.
To help automotive customers streamline model-based software
development, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has
introduced the RAppID ToolBox, a software solution that supports
on-target, rapid prototyping for Freescale's 32-bit MPC5500 automotive
microcontroller (MCU) family.
The RAppID ToolBox is designed to help control engineers reduce
development time and cost when migrating from their application
modeling environment to real-world implementations on automotive MCU
platforms intended for production. The toolbox provides an ideal
prototyping solution for a variety of automotive applications, such as
engine and transmission control, anti-lock braking systems and
chassis/suspension systems. Developers also can use the toolbox for
non-automotive applications ranging from avionic systems to industrial
printers to power generators.
"As microcontrollers become more powerful and feature-rich to
address more complex applications, developers need access to more
sophisticated yet easy to use prototyping solutions like the RAppID
ToolBox," said Salim Momin, director of Freescale's Virtual Garage
software and services business unit. "Control engineers can use the
RAppID ToolBox to determine how their applications will perform on
target MCUs early in the development cycle and then work on
optimization at the model level rather than at the code level."
Streamlined development through on-target rapid prototyping
Control engineers often validate their control models functionally
by running auto-generated C code on commercially available rapid
prototyping hardware. However, the prototyping hardware usually does
not represent the MCU targeted for production. As a result, the
engineers may not know the control algorithm's actual performance on
the production MCU. In addition, engineers prefer to run their control
algorithms on target MCUs early in the development cycle to validate
their device selection. However, this can be a difficult,
time-consuming task if they have to write the initialization, device
drivers and scheduler code by hand, which adds to the development
cycle time.
Freescale's RAppID ToolBox addresses these challenges by enabling
engineers to execute their control models on MPC5500 MCU family
hardware without writing code and to profile the execution of the code
on their target MCU. The RAppID ToolBox thus helps reduce development
time by allowing engineers to work in their actual, real-world control
environment.
Using the profiling feature of the RAppID ToolBox, application
developers can study the performance of their control strategy on the
target microcontroller early in the design cycle. The toolbox
eliminates the need to invest in expensive prototyping hardware by
supporting rapid prototyping on cost-effective evaluation boards for
MPC5500 family devices, such as the MPC5554 MCU. Optimized DSP blocks
enable developers to take advantage of the
single-instruction/multiple-data (SIMD) capabilities of the MPC5554.
Integrated with industry-standard modeling and code-generation
environments
The RAppID ToolBox leverages the powerful modeling and simulation
environment provided by The MathWorks product family with an add-on
blockset for MATLAB(R) and Simulink(R), and an embedded target for
Real-Time Workshop(R) and Real-Time Workshop(R) Embedded Coder. It
supports Signal Processing Toolbox for optimized single instruction
multiple data (SIMD) functions and Stateflow(R) for interactive design
and simulation.
Using the RAppID ToolBox, developers can quickly execute and
evaluate their complex control algorithms on MPC5500 family platforms.
The toolbox automatically generates the necessary software, from
initialization to device drivers to schedulers, including support for
Freescale's OSEKturbo real-time operating system (RTOS). The
toolbox-generated code integrates seamlessly with commercial automatic
code generation tools, such as TargetLink from dSPACE and Real-Time
Workshop and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.
About Freescale's Virtual Garage
The Virtual Garage is a Freescale strategic business unit that
provides software solutions and services to the transportation
industry. The Virtual Garage mission is to enable customers to adopt a
true "systems engineering" methodology based on modeling and
simulation; these systems engineering solutions help decrease
traditional development cycle times and cost while improving overall
system quality. In addition to providing software solutions to
developers in the automotive, aerospace/defense, printing and
industrial automation industries, the Virtual Garage also collaborates
with universities by providing software tools, such as the RAppID
ToolBox for use as curricula in control engineering classes.
RAppID system requirements and compatibility
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-- Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP
-- 512MB RAM recommended
-- Minimum 1GHz processor recommended
-- Standard screen resolutions supported
-- Modeling Environment: MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, Signal
Processing Toolbox
-- Code-generators: Real-Time Workshop, Real-Time Workshop Embedded
Coder from The MathWorks or TargetLink from dSPACE
-- Embedded targets:
-- Support for Freescale, Green Hills Software and Wind River
(DIAB) compilers
-- Generic schedule target with multi-rate,
synchronous/asynchronous task support
-- Freescale OSEKturbo target
-- Built-in consistency checks between target and model
-- Compatible with:
-- MATLAB Version R14sp1, R14sp2, R14sp3 and R2006a
-- TargetLink Version 2.1
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RAppID ToolBox availability
The first RAppID ToolBox offering for the MPC5554 MCU is available
now from Freescale's Virtual Garage. Software support for additional
MPC5500 family devices is planned for the future. For more information
about the RAppID ToolBox, visit
http://www.freescale.com/files/pr/vg.html.
Freescale: The leader in automotive semiconductors
Freescale is the No. 1 supplier of automotive semiconductors, with
more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Freescale
technology is used in an overwhelming majority of new vehicles.
Freescale's sensors, analog products, and 8-, 16- and 32-bit
microcontroller families provide intelligence and connectivity for
advanced safety, body electronics, chassis, engine control,
powertrain, driver information and telematics. Freescale is a pioneer
in FlexRay(TM) technology and was the first supplier to integrate CAN,
LIN and flash memory technologies on automotive MCUs.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global
leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for
the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.
Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company
is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development,
manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.
Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest
semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
www.freescale.com.
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Reader Inquiry Response:
Freescale Semiconductor
P.O. Box 17927
Denver, CO 80217 USA
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Freescale(TM) and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the
property of their respective owners. (C) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
2006.