xPC Target Release Notes

New Features

This section introduces the new features and enhancements added to xPC Target 1.1 and xPC Target Embedded Option 1.1 since xPC Target 1.0 (Release 11.1).

Web Browser Interface

If the target PC is connected to a network, you can use a Web browser to interact with the target application from any computer connected to a network. Currently, this feature is limited to one browser connection at a time. xPC Target supports Netscape Navigator 4.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and later versions.

Target PC Command Line Interface

You can interact with the xPC Target environment through the target PC command window. Enter most of the xPC Target commands in the command window on the target PC. This interface is useful with stand-alone applications that are not connected to your host PC.

MATLAB Command Line Interface

The behavior for the commands getparamid and getsignalid has been changed. The default behavior is to return the parameter or signal name (P0, P1 . . . or S0, S1, . . .), and you can also return the parameter or signal index (0, 1, 2 . . .) by setting an argument flag.

The behavior for the command getsignalid in xPC Target 1.1 is different from xPC Target 1.0 and may break scripts that use this command. The default behavior for the command getsignalid with Version 1.0 was to return the signal index.

Signal Monitoring

This is the process for acquiring signal data without time information. The advantage of this process is that there is minimal CPU overhead for collecting the data.

I/O Device Driver Support

xPC Target 1.1 includes new device drivers blocks:

• New blocks to support additional I/O boards
• Blocks to support a GPIB fieldbus using a National Instruments GPIB controller and an RS232 connection to the target PC

xPC Target 1.1 Release Notes

Known Software and Documentation Problems