The Model Interface Toolkit provides the Model Interface VIs, which you use to run and interact with models. However, this toolkit does not provide support for compiling models that are compatible with the toolkit. The following free components, available on the same VeriStand DVD from which you install the Model Interface Toolkit, install support for compiling compatible models:

  • VeriStand Model Generation Support - Provides a tool for compiling models in Mathworks Simulink.
  • VeriStand Model Framework—Provides tools for compiling models designed in C/C++ or third-party modeling environments, such as MathWorks Simulink® software.
  • LabVIEW Model Support—Provides a tool for generating models from LabVIEW VIs.
  • FMI Support—Standard for compiling models designed in C/C++ or third-party modeling environments.
Note   If you install only the Model Interface Toolkit and not these components, environments like LabVIEW and the Simulink software do not support compiling compatible models.

VeriStand Model Generation Support

The VeriStand Model Generation Support allows compiling models using Mathworks Simulink for running in Model Interface Toolkit. When you run your test application, designed using the Model Interface Toolkit, the application executes functions defined in the vsmodel binaries that execute your model code.

VeriStand Model Framework

The VeriStand Model Framework provides tools for compiling models created in third-party modeling environments and for designing custom models in C/C++. When you run your test application, designed using the Model Interface Toolkit, the application executes functions defined in VeriStand Model Framework files. These functions then call functions in your model code to execute the model.

  • Finding the Model Framework Files and Documentation—The VeriStand installer installs the Model Framework files and documentation at RootDrive:\VeriStand\xxxx\ModelInterface\, where RootDrive is the drive where NI software installs and xxxx is the VeriStand version number. If you cannot locate the files at that location, run the VeriStand installer again and select the VeriStand Model Framework item from the list of features to install. You do not need to reinstall other NI software to install the Model Framework.