ABSTRACT
The best way to view the MATRIXx 1 Product Family is as an application development methodology that begins with conceptual system design and results in a completed software program. The methodology combines embedded and control system modeling, simulation, code generation, and documentation in an integrated collection of software and hardware products. The tool set has proven invaluable in a number of roles—application development, simulation, production testing, system analysis and modeling, and general purpose research and development. Although originally intended to support control system design, the MATRIXx Product Family also plays an extensive role in general-purpose real-time embedded systems development, reflecting the fact that almost all embedded systems involve control processes of one kind or another.
