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Start and Terminate Actions Within Legacy Functions

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This example shows you how to use the Legacy Code Tool to integrate legacy C functions that have start and terminate actions.

The Legacy Code Tool allows you to:

  • Provide the legacy function specification,

  • Generate a C-MEX S-function that is used during simulation to call the legacy code, and

  • Compile and build the generated S-function for simulation.

Providing the Legacy Function Specification

Functions provided with the Legacy Code Tool take a specific data structure or array of structures as the argument. The data structure is initialized by calling the function legacy_code() using the initialize first input. After initializing the structure, you have to assign its properties to values corresponding to the legacy code being integrated. The prototypes of the legacy functions being called in this example are:

  • void initFaultCounter(unsigned int *counter)

  • void openLogFile(void **fid)

  • void incAndLogFaultCounter(void *fid, unsigned int *counter, double time)

  • void closeLogFile(void **fid)

To open the model and files, click Open Model. The legacy source code is found in the files your_types.h, fault.h, and fault.c.

% sldemo_sfun_fault
def = legacy_code('initialize');
def.SFunctionName                = 'sldemo_sfun_fault';
def.InitializeConditionsFcnSpec  = 'initFaultCounter(uint32 work2[1])';
def.StartFcnSpec                 = 'openLogFile(void **work1)';
def.OutputFcnSpec                = 'incAndLogFaultCounter(void *work1, uint32 work2[1], double u1)';
def.TerminateFcnSpec             = 'closeLogFile(void **work1)';
def.HeaderFiles                  = {'fault.h'};
def.SourceFiles                  = {'fault.c'};
def.IncPaths                     = {'sldemo_lct_src'};
def.SrcPaths                     = {'sldemo_lct_src'};
def.Options.useTlcWithAccel      = false;

Generating and Compiling an S-Function for Use During Simulation

The function legacy_code() is called again with the first input set to generate_for_sim in order to automatically generate and compile the C-MEX S-function according to the description provided by the input argument def. This S-function is used to call the legacy functions in simulation. The source code for the S-function is found in the file sldemo_sfun_fault.c.

legacy_code('generate_for_sim', def);

### Start Compiling sldemo_sfun_fault
    mex('-I/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tpb6f6d8cc/simulink_features-ex33158503/sldemo_lct_src', '-I/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tpb6f6d8cc/simulink_features-ex33158503', '-c', '-outdir', '/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tp5ff26da0_4bbc_4094_ba54_e8a052c7b8bc', '/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tpb6f6d8cc/simulink_features-ex33158503/sldemo_lct_src/fault.c')
Building with 'gcc'.
MEX completed successfully.
    mex('sldemo_sfun_fault.c', '-I/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tpb6f6d8cc/simulink_features-ex33158503/sldemo_lct_src', '-I/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tpb6f6d8cc/simulink_features-ex33158503', '/tmp/Bdoc24a_2528353_1294735/tp5ff26da0_4bbc_4094_ba54_e8a052c7b8bc/fault.o')
Building with 'gcc'.
MEX completed successfully.
### Finish Compiling sldemo_sfun_fault
### Exit

Generating an rtwmakecfg.m File for Code Generation

After the TLC block file is created, the function legacy_code() can be called again with the first input set to rtwmakecfg_generate in order to generate an rtwmakecfg.m file to support code generation through Simulink® Coder™. Generate the rtwmakecfg.m file if the required source and header files for the S-functions are not in the same directory as the S-functions, and you want to add these dependencies in the makefile produced during code generation.

Note: Complete this step only if you are going to simulate the model in accelerated mode.

legacy_code('rtwmakecfg_generate', def);

Generating a Masked S-Function Block for Calling the Generated S-Function

After the C-MEX S-function source is compiled, the function legacy_code() can be called again with the first input set to slblock_generate in order to generate a masked S-function block that is configured to call that S-function. The block is placed in a new model and can be copied to an existing model.

% legacy_code('slblock_generate', def);

Integrate the Legacy Code

The model sldemo_lct_start_term shows integration with the legacy code. The subsystem TestFixpt serves as a harness for the call to the legacy C function, and the scope compares the output of the function with the output of the built-in Simulink® product block; the results should be identical.

open_system('sldemo_lct_start_term')
open_system('sldemo_lct_start_term/TestFault')
sim('sldemo_lct_start_term');

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