Altair Embed is a comprehensive visual environment designed for embedded system development, enabling engineers to design, analyze, and simulate complex systems using intuitive block diagrams and state charts. It facilitates the automatic generation of compact, optimized firmware for a wide array of microcontrollers, eliminating the need for manual coding. This approach streamlines the development process, reduces errors, and accelerates the edit-debug cycle. With robust support for on-chip peripherals and extensive libraries tailored for electric motor control, digital power design, and image and video processing, Altair Embed is an invaluable tool for developing efficient and reliable embedded applications.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Model-Based Design: Utilize block diagrams and state charts to model and simulate continuous, discrete, hybrid, multi-rate, and event-based systems.
- Automatic Code Generation: Convert models into efficient, fixed or floating-point MISRA-compliant firmware for over 1,200 microprocessor targets without writing code.
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL Prototyping: Verify and test closed-loop virtual plant models in real-time with firmware executing on the target hardware.
- Prebuilt Motor/Drive Controller Diagrams: Access over 170 motor/drive examples from the eDrives library to expedite development.
- Digital Power Designer (DPD: Utilize tools and diagrams for designing, simulating, and testing power converters, compensators, filters, and more.
- Extensive Microcontroller Support: Generate firmware for a broad range of microcontrollers, including STM32, TI C2000, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and others.
Primary Value and User Solutions:
Altair Embed addresses the challenges of embedded system development by providing a model-based design environment that simplifies the creation and testing of complex systems. By automating code generation and offering prebuilt libraries, it reduces development time and minimizes errors associated with manual coding. The integration of HIL prototyping allows for real-time testing and validation, ensuring that embedded applications perform reliably in real-world scenarios. This comprehensive toolset empowers engineers to develop high-quality embedded systems efficiently, meeting the demands of various applications such as robotics, electric motors, IoT devices, and video processing.