Chrona's Timing Definition Language (TDL) allows you to specify platform-neutral real-time components in a straight-forward textual way. So a text editor is all you need to come up with your TDL components.
Nevertheless, developers often prefer a visual and interactive tool. For this reason we provide the Chrona VisualCreator tool, for an intuitive, syntax-driven modeling of Chrona components.
The Chrona VisualCreator tool offers the most straight-forward way to explicitly define timing behavior:
- group MATLAB®/Simulink® subsystems into a TDL module
- set the time for each subsystem (that is, the Logical Execution Time in TDL jargon)
- if you need you can add modes and mode switches
- simulate the behavior in MATLAB®/Simulink®—we guarantee that the simulation behavior and the behavior on your particular execution platform that you select later (eg, a time-triggered Ethernet cluster) will be identical
