Are there alternatives to Simulink Real-Time byte packing/unpacking blocks for MacOS?

Hello,

I am working on a project where I need Simulink Real-Time byte packing and unpacking blocks to enable real-time communication via Ethernet with a microcontroller. Unfortunately, this library is not available for macOS.

Does anyone know of any alternative solutions or approaches that could work on macOS?

Thank you in advance for your valuable help!

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

Indeed the product Simulink Real-Time is not supported on Mac. Please have a look at Simulink Desktop Real-Time. I could not find "communication via Ethernet with a microcontroller" quickly, but maybe it is possible. I also like to show this options as maybe you are in early stages of the project or lab setup plan and can achieve the same goal differently.

[Lorenzo]

Thank you for your response!

From my understanding, Simulink Desktop Real-Time cannot be used for my purpose. However, I found equivalent byte packing and unpacking blocks in the Motor Control Blockset library (https://www.mathworks.com/products/motor-control.html).

It may be helpful for future users to know that the Embedded Coder library also includes byte packing and unpacking blocks, but without the option to choose the port output type (which is set to 'uint8' by default).