Why Use the Fixed-Point Designer Software?

The Fixed-Point Designer™ software allows you to efficiently design control systems and digital filters that you will implement using fixed-point arithmetic. With the Fixed-Point Designer software, you can construct Simulink^® and Stateflow^® models that contain detailed fixed-point information about your systems. You can then perform bit-true simulations with the models to observe the effects of limited range and precision on your designs.

You can configure the Fixed-Point Tool to automatically log the overflows, saturations, and signal extremes of your simulations. You can also use it to automate data typing and scaling decisions and to compare your fixed-point implementations against idealized, floating-point benchmarks.

You can use the Fixed-Point Designer software with the Simulink Coder™ product to automatically generate efficient, integer-only C code representations of your designs. You can use this C code in a production target or for rapid prototyping. In addition, you can use the Fixed-Point Designer software with the Embedded Coder^® product to generate real-time C code for use on an integer production, embedded target. You can also use Fixed-Point Designer with HDL Coder™ to generate portable, synthesizable VHDL^® and Verilog^® code from Simulink models and Stateflow charts.