Building Embedded Displays Using

Model-Based Design

Jason Moore
Pilot Engineering

© 2015 The MathWorks, Inc.1

Example Target Applications
Instrument Cluster Center Stack

Command/Control
Heads-up display Center

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 Traditional Display Design Process

SPECIFICATIONS

Display

Business Other
Visual Graphics
Logic Application
Design
Embeddable Embeddable Embeddable
Graphical Images
Text
Graphics Algorithms Algorithms
Illustrations
Fonts

Physical Prototypes
• Hardware/drivers not available early
Manual Integration • Low-level designs prevent rapid iteration
• Cumbersome to map components
• Error-prone to keep make changes Hardware
Prototype
Embedded
Software
Traditional Testing
• Design and integration issues found late

INTEGRATION AND TEST

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 Model-Based Design of Displays

Test requirements and analyze

SPECIFICATIONS
behavior of complete design using
simulation on desktop

Verify and validate designs using

testing and error detection through
Display desktop simulation

Business Other
Visual Graphics
Logic Application
Design
Embeddable Embeddable Embeddable
Graphical Images
Text
Graphics Algorithms Algorithms
Illustrations
Fonts

Physical Prototypes
• Hardware/drivers not available early
Manual Integration integration of
Out-of-the-box • Low-level designs prevent rapid iteration
• Cumbersome
businessto mapwith
logic components
graphics
• Error-prone to keep make changes
tools through published API Hardware
Prototype
Embedded
Software
Traditional Testing
• Design and integration issues found late

INTEGRATION AND TEST

INTEGRATION AND TEST
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 DiSTI GL Studio Integration for HMI Applications
Purpose: Demonstrate a workflow that is tailored to developers who focus
on embedded HMI applications

Graphics Application
Typical Automotive Applications
Logic Application (GL Studio/Disti Blockset)
(Stateflow)

Instrument Cluster

Center Stack

Focal point of the demonstration is on early validation and verification in

Simulink for HMI development
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 Key Takeaways
• Co-Simulation/Development Environment in Simulink
• Automated Test Case Execution
Input Vectors Simulink Simulation Expected vs Actual
SDI Signal Comparison

Image Comparison

• Deployment to Target
• Embedded Coder code and GL Studio code can be built into a single
application
• Application can deploy to an embedded target or desktop 6
Existing Automotive Graphic Vendor Integrations

Altia (Altia)
http://www.altia.com/

DiSTI (GL Studio)

http://www.disti.com/

Digia Qt (technology)

http://www.qt.io/

Fujitsu (CGI-Studio)
http://www.cgistudio.at/