SIMulation Workbench for Real-Time Embedded Electronic Simulation - Concurrent

Concurrent announced its plans to offer SIMulation Workbench, a software environment for developing and executing real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and man-in-the-loop (MIL) simulations. The product is scheduled to be in the market the Q3 of 2007. The SIMulation Workbench will be offered on Concurrent's iHawk RTOS.

As embedded electronic subsystems become more complicated, it is increasingly important for manufacturers to fully test components in an interactive HIL environment. In this environment, hardware and software can be tested prior to installation in actual equipment. SIMulation

Ken Jackson, Concurrent, said:

We specifically designed SIMulation Workbench for simulation engineers desiring a fully-integrated, Linux-based toolset compatible with popular 3rd party modeling software…

…Our goal is to help aerospace and automotive suppliers improve the reliability and quality of their electronic systems at commercial off-the-shelf prices

SIMulation Workbench includes a powerful GUI that enables convenient starting, stopping, recording, playback and configuring of running simulation. With fast, direct shared memory access to all parameters and I/O signals needed by a simulation, SIMulation Workbench optimizes performance and data conversion speed.

SIMulation Workbench will be showcased at the ITEC 2007 Conference and Exhibition, April 24-26, 2007 in Cologne, Germany.

At the heart of SIMulation Workbench is a memory resident database that can be accessed by all simulator processes. The database provides complete I/O independence. All the information needed to configure I/O points and to read, convert, write and store simulation variables is maintained. A powerful data recorder tool is included allowing simulation data points to be logged individually and independently. With a playback tool, recorded test runs can be replayed into the system.

SIMulation Workbench is built upon a client-server architecture. A real-time server provides the runtime environment for simulation while network-based GUI clients control and display real-time activities. Real-time performance is maximized because the GUI clients can run outside of the simulation server.

SIMulation Workbench fully supports simulation models developed using The MathWorks' products. MATLAB/Simulink models can be integrated seamlessly into the workbench environment using Real-Time Workshop. C/C++ and FORTRAN legacy-code models are also supported. SIMulation Workbench runs on Concurrent iHawk multiprocessor platforms running RedHawk Linux. All I/O devices and Linux drivers required for simulations are available directly from Concurrent.

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