Scicos-FLEX Code Generator
Scicos-FLEX allows the development of a single-click digital control automatic code generation tool supporting ERIKA Enterprise targets, based on ScicosLab.
The code generator of scicos-FLEX is a direct derivation from the Linux/RTAI Code Generator for Scicoslab.
As depicted in the figure above, the process of code generation is as follows-
- Design of a control system in Scicos.
- Simulation and tuning of the control system in Scicos.
- Single-click code generation for ERIKA Enterprise
- Automatic flashing of the FLEX board.
- Integration in the Scicos HIL support using the FLEX USB/wireless connection.
The Scicos-FLEX project currently contains:
- Code generator for ERIKA Enterprise.
- Finite State Machine Simulation using SMCube.
- Over 100 Scicos blocks ready for code generation!
- Automatic generation and compilation of the Scicos generated application.
- Manual flashing of the generated application on the dsPIC device on the FLEX board.
- Working examples using the FLEX board.
- Tutorial for the creation of a sample application included in the documentation.
- Hardware in the loop working.
Additional documentation
- Documentation about the ScicosLab course made in Florence, October 2010
- Documentation about the ScicosLab course made in Malaysia, November 2010
This work has been done in collaboration with:
- The ScicosLab Team
- Simone Mannori
- Roberto Bucher , SUPSI (Lugano, CH)
Download latest version:
ScicosLab Pack 11.1 - for ScicosLab 4.4.1
ScicosLab Pack 11.1 is now distributed in two versions:
- ScicosLab Pack 11.1 WITH SMCube and WITH the FLEX Demo Board Simulator (download page on the Evidence website)
- ScicosLab Pack 11.1 WITHOUT SMCube and WITHOUT the FLEX Demo Board Simulator (zip file on the TuxFamily website)
Simplified installation procedure (please note the fact that Windows 64 bit needs a few patches highligted in the wiki page)
The following information is common to the two distributions:
- Documentation about Scicos FLEX on the ERIKA Wiki
- ScicosLab 4.4.1 (official mirror) WE TESTED IT USING THIS VERSION!!!
- ERIKA Enterprise and RT-druid are included in the ScicosLab Pack.
- ScicosLab Pack requires cygwin to compile Erika Enterprise. Here is a minimal installation pack for Cygwin.
Changelog:
This version of the ScicosLab-Pack for Erika includes:
- SMCube and SMCube Blockset
(only for the version of the ScicosLab PACK with SMCube)
SMCube is a tool to create, simulate and generate code for discrete time finite state machines. - FLEX DEMO board SIMULATOR
(only for the version of the ScicosLab PACK with SMCube)
a Qt-based application for interactive simulation of the FLEX Demo Board. Documentation is available on the SMCube Manual. - Complete support for the EASYLAB board, for simulation and code generation. More information about the EasyLab board.
and some improvements:
- New palettes: SMCube and Miscellaneous.
- New Blockset for the FLEX DEMO board.
- A more performant installer.
- New documentation of the blocks, available in the ScicosLab Help.
- New Scicos CodeGen menu to save user preferences.
- New communication blocks for Flex and Easylab (RS232, UDP, CAN, USB, ...).
- Added DLL to enable diagram simulation with the ScicosLab-Pack blocks, try the tutorial!
- Other improvements: blocks images loaded in the palette tree, Flex encoder blocks updated, ...
Changelog between version 11 and 11.1:
- Fixed compilation problem on a limited number of blocks
- More controls on the installer
- Fixed library creation in SMCube
