Integrated, Model-based Development Environment Needed Today
Manufacturers recognize that the cost-feasibility gap between increased product complexity and shorter development times can only be closed by streamlining development tasks for embedded systems. In essence, tasks must be optimized and run in parallel, requiring highly efficient development processes and systems that integrate every development stage.

• Rapid prototyping
• Automatic Production Code Generation
• Hardware-in-the-loop Co-Simulation

The Lyrtech Development Solution
Lyrtech platforms leverage the widely recognized V-Cycle process for the development of control embedded systems. This approach integrates three key features:

Rapid Control Prototyping MatLab/SimuLink® allow to architecture the modules and model your functions. It also provide fast iteration cycles.

Automatic Production Code Generation As soon as your functions are modeled and validated, Lyrtech DSPLink and FPGALink generates highly efficient C and VHDL code directly from SimuLink®.

Hardware-in-the-Loop Co-Simulation Lyrtech Signal Master allows you to capture test and optimize your functions in real time. Any errors that occur can be reproduced at any time.

These modules are compatible with SignalMaster Development Platforms:

Platform	DSP/FPGA	Modular design	I/Os	Simulink Integration
SignalMaster Product page: Benchtop form factor Product page: cPCI form factor	Texas Instruments TMS320C6701 @ 150/167MHz XC2V3000 and XC2V6000 Xilinx VirtexII FPGA	Yes: VIMTM I/O site (ADACMaster II)	Audio: 2 In / 6 Out, 24-bit @ 96kHz See "Add-On Modules" section	Yes
SignalMaster Quad Virtex-4 Product page	4 Texas Instruments TMS320C6416 DSP (720 MHz or 1 GHz) (4x) Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA (LX100 or LX160) (2x)	Yes: 2 LYRIO sites	See "Add-On Modules" section about compatible modules	Yes
SignalMaster Quad Virtex-II C6713 Product page: Benchtop form factor Product page: cPCI form factor	4 Texas Instruments TMS320C6713 @ 225MHz 2 XC2V3000 to XC2V8000 Xilinx VirtexII FPGA	Yes: 2 LYRIO sites	See "Add-On Modules" section	Yes
SignalMaster Quad TMS320C6416 Product page GSPX 2004 Award Winning	4 Texas Instruments TMS320C6416 @ 720MHz 2 XC2V3000 to XC2V8000 Xilinx VirtexII FPGA	Yes: 2 LYRIO sites		Yes

Rapid prototyping
Rapid prototyping is used to develop and optimize new control concepts. Design tools such as MATLAB/Simulink^® enable you to design controllers directly in the block diagram. Real-time code is generated from the block diagram and automatically implemented on flexible prototype hardware such as the Lyrtech SignalMaster. In a closed loop, you can record time histories in real time, change parameters on-line, and run various scripts. Perform these tasks during early development, and you can lower overall development costs.

Automatic Production Code Generation
Why spend hours and days on programming controllers manually, only to find scores of errors in the code later? The solution is automatic production code generation directly from the block diagram. DSPLinK and FPGALink generate highly efficient production code from Simulink/Real Time WorkShop^®.

Hardware-in-the-loop Co-Simulation
Once the control software has been implemented in the prototype, it has to be put through tests and simulations. Now, time-to-market pressures are forcing engineers to perform these tests and simulations before field tests. Hardware in the loop co-simulation is the trusted, cost-effective method of performing system tests in a virtual environment. Most of the environment components are replaced by mathematical models, while the components to be simulated are inserted into the closed loop. Since all this process is reproducible, it also allows traceability for increasing safety requirements.