HDL Code Advisor Checks - MATLAB & Simulink (original) (raw)

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The HDL Code Advisor and the Model Advisor checks in HDL Coder™ verify and update your Simulink® model or subsystem for compatibility with HDL code generation. The Code Advisor has checks for:

Model configuration settings
Ports and Subsystem settings
Blocks and block settings
Native Floating Point support
Industry standard guidelines

When you run a check, the Code Advisor displays the result as a pass, a warning or a failure. You can fix warnings or failures by using the Model Advisor recommended settings.

Model configuration checks

Use the checks in this folder to prepare your model for compatibility with HDL code generation. This folder contains checks that verify whether model parameters are HDL-compatible, whether your design contains algebraic loops, and so on.

Checks for ports and subsystems

This folder contains checks that verify whether ports and subsystems in your model have settings that are compatible for HDL code generation. The checks include whether you have a valid top-level DUT Subsystem and whether you have specified an initial condition for Enabled Subsystem and Triggered Subsystem blocks.

Checks for blocks and block settings

These checks verify whether blocks in your model are supported for HDL code generation, and whether the supported blocks have HDL-compatible settings. The checks include whether source blocks in your model have a continuous sample time and whether Stateflow® Charts and MATLAB Function blocks have HDL-compatible settings, and so on.

Native Floating Point checks

These checks verify whether the model is compatible for HDL code generation inNative Floating Point mode. The checks include whether the blocks in your Simulink model are supported for HDL code generation with Native Floating Point, and whether the model uses single data types, and so on. Native floating-point support in HDL Coder generates target-independent HDL code from your single-precision floating-point model. For more information, see Generate Target-Independent HDL Code with Native Floating-Point.

Industry standard checks

These checks verify whether your Simulink model conforms to the industry-standard rules. industry-standard rules recommend using certain HDL coding guidelines. When generating code, HDL Coder displays an HDL coding standard report that shows how well the generated code adheres to the industry-standard guidelines.

For more information, see: