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VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer™

Industry leading model-based development for Texas Instruments DSC and Microprocessors

VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer is an environment for model-based development of embedded control systems. Using a block diagram approach you can quickly create a model of your control system, whether complex multi-phase vector control , or simple PID control. With your model in diagram form, you simulate and generate code from the same diagram. In simulation mode, it is fast and easy to prototype, optimize and debug before you ever generate code. Once you are happy with simulated performance, a single compile button will generate generate highly efficient C code and compile it to a target executable. The VisSim target HotLink allows download and interactive debug while your algorithm runs on the target.

VisSim/ECD supports the TI F2833x, F280x, F281x, Piccolo, LF240x, C5510, C6713, MSP430.
VisSim/ECD is unique in its ability to generate highly efficient, high sample rate, low jitter target executables. For example, a closed-loop PID control with encoder input and PWM output and one digital output line take 1.1K flash and 100 bytes RAM on the MSP430, and VisSim/ECD generated code can sample at rates over 1 MHz on the F28335.

highlights

  • VisSim/Fixed Point™ block set performs simulation and efficient code generation of scaled fixed point operations like sin/cos/sqrt/atan2/FIR/IIR. Overflow and precision loss effects are easily seen and corrected at simulation time. Auto-scaling speeds fixed point development. In-line code generation creates fast target code.
  • Peripheral Blocks to generate code for C2000 on-chip devices:
    280x ePWM, eQEP, eCAP, ADC, GPIO, quadrature encoder, event capture (up to 1 MHz resolution)
    CAN 2.0, serial port, SPI, McBSP, watchdog, interrupts
  • Full control of PWM including: dynamic control of PWM period and phase, ADC start of conversion, trip zone, deadband intervals, action selection
  • Interrupt based queue drivers for serial(SCI), SPI, and McBSP. User selectable queue lengths and use of hardware FIFO result in lower system overhead
  • Diagram based Interrupt handlers for XINT, ADC,  PWM, DMA
  • Easy creation of background tasks Simply check a box in the subsystem dialog to create a background task that runs at a user specified rate
  • TI C2000 Digital Motor Control (DMC) Block Setsupporting simulation and code generation of efficient, fixed-point routines for Park and Clarke transforms, rotor speed and flux estimation, PID control, space vector  wave form generation for AC Induction and Brushless DC motor control.
  • Automatic C code generation of production quality fixed-point code, compile, link, and JTAG download to the TI F2833x, F280x, F281x, MSP430,  LF240x, C5510, C6713
  • Retention of the VisSim GUI while algorithm executes on DSP lets you visualize interactive plots of DSP outputs and change DSP gains and parameters in real-time.
  • VisSim-Code Composer Studio (CCS) plug-in for automatic CCS project creation
  • TI C2000 CAN Bus Support
  • Serial port based LCD display support
  • Efficient 7 and 14 Segment LCD display support for MSP430. User Table can customize segment assignments. Auto conversion from scaled fixed point to decimal display uses no floating point and no divide for maximum efficiency on MSP architecture.
  • Flash Burn support tracks processor speed and PLL multiple to safely burn your standalone controller to Flash
  • Conditional execution of subsystems based on any Boolean condition, including occurrence of interrupt.
  • User Control of Execution Order  is done via block placement in diagram. Execution order is top down. Subsystem contents are completely executed before the next block on given layer.
    

The combination of the VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer software and TI's C2000 DSPs provides designers with an excellent embedded DSP control platform.
-- Andrew Soukup
Worldwide Marketing Manager
Digital Controls System Group

Texas Instruments
                                              

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