RTAI Codegenration

WORKS ONLY with SCILAB 4.1.2!!!

1. Starting scilab

scilab

2. Loading HART-Toolbox

3. Starting scicos

scicos

4. Adding needed blocks to scicos

• Open the sources palette
• Select the activation clock and add it to the scicos-diagramm
• Open the HART RTAI palette
• Select the sin generator and add it to the scicos-diagramm
• Select the scope and add it to the scicos-diagramm

• Connect the sine output with the scope input
• Connect the output of the clock with the sine and the scope activation input

• Select region to super block
• Draw a rectangle over the sine generator and the scope block

• Change the Period of the activation clock to 1 msec
• Save the diagram as demo1.cos
• Open the Super block
• Rename the superblock to demo

• Close the super block
• Select Code generation from the menu
• Click on the super block
• Change the file path if needed

• If everthing works properly, the output in the scilab main window should be like this one:

• Scilab / Scicos can be closed
• Open a terminal and go to the directory with the generated code
• Be shure, that all rtai modules are loaded properly
• start the program: ./demo

• Start QRtailab
• Click on Target/Connect
• Clock on View/Scope
• Enable the scope by clicking on Show/Hide

• Stop the program by clicking on Target/Stop
• Close Qrtailab

Gratulation! You have generated your first real time program.