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Revision as of 12:40, 29 May 2013
Contents
- 1 Woodward MotoHawk® Software
- 2 Benefits of Model Based Design
- 3 MotoHawk's Role in Model Based Design
- 4 Where to Download MotoHawk
- 5 How is MotoHawk Licensed?
- 6 MotoHawk Blockset Help
- 7 Design Principles
- 8 What is Required to Use MotoHawk?
- 9 64-Bit
- 10 Windows 7
- 11 Windows 8
- 12 The MotoHawk Blockset
- 13 External Links
Woodward MotoHawk® Software
Your Rapid Controls Development Software
MotoHawk® is a rapid controls system development tool that allows controls engineers to quickly create controls software within Simulink® diagrams, which run on any MotoHawk-enabled electronic control modules. Successfully used in thousands of production applications, MotoHawk supports control feature development, vehicle calibration, and fleet testing. It allows a variety of applications using both single controller and distributed by-wire implementations.
The MotoHawk Advantage
MotoHawk is a powerful development and prototyping system for Simulink/Stateflow users. Control models prototyped with MotoHawk move seamlessly from development into production.
Benefits of Model Based Design
- Simpler, faster development cycle that is flexible to unanticipated changes.
- Model Re-Use - sections of application logic can be stored in controlled libraries for re-use (on different hardware also)
- Hardware can be used generically for multitude of applications
- Testing can be done using the real produciton control hardware - prototype to produciton with the same hardware
- Readable documentation of system design automatically created from models
Go from concept to production with less time and less cost.
Features
• Auto-code generation of Simulink/Stateflow models using Embedded Coder/Stateflow Coder
• Rugged controllers for prototyping and production
• ControlCore-enabled software
• Off-the-shelf engine control libraries
• Calibration using MotoTune® or open-protocol tools (CCP/XCP)
• Responsive engineering and support services for a wide range of applications
• Electronic control modules available for development, fleet and production
Benefits
• Simpler, faster development
• Better testing using real production ECM hardware
• Quickly develop and enhance software features in Simulink
• Analyze and control real-time OS from Simulink/Stateflow
• Direct access to the production controller’s I/O from Simulink
• Readable documentation of system design automatically created from models
• Lower cost for fleet testing; outfit an entire test fleet with rapid prototyping capability
• Custom block-set allows for integration of both handwritten and auto-code
- Simulink® is a trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
MotoHawk is a critical component in a model-based software design process.
Application developers work directly in the Simulink environment with a one step (CNTL-B) build that goes from application model to flash on Woodward Production Hardware.
MotoHawk's Role in Model Based Design
MotoHawk is a Toolbox to Simulink and is the glue that connects the Model Based Developer with the Woodward MotoHawk Control Core enabled Hardware.
Where to Download MotoHawk
MotoHawk can be downloaded from the Downloads section of the Woodward MCS Website. You will need to Register for an account and then be given access to download permissions. MotoHawk can also be downloaded from Woodward's main website, Woodward.com. At the top pulldown menu select Support, then Software, and enter MotoHawk in the Search field. Registration is also required to download the software, but access is immediate.
Here's a list of all the Wiki articles about MotoHawk. Here is a listing of Wiki MotoHawk block help, by category.
How is MotoHawk Licensed?
MotoHawk is licensed by a silver USB dongle that is placed in the USB port of the computer. All new MotoHawk purchases come with a dongle licensed for 2008a - Current Service Pack Release + 1.
This means that if the current SP release at the time of purchase is 2012b SP0, then the dongle would ship licensed for 2008a-2013a. (next release after 2012b is 2013a).
MotoHawk maintanance can be purchased later to then add additional MotoHawk licensed versions to the dongle.
See MotoHawk and MotoTools Licensing for more information.
MotoHawk Blockset Help
Want to Preview the MotoHawk Blockset?
You can find descriptions for each block in the MotoHawk library below, or by searching by block name.
See: MotoHawk Blockset Help
Design Principles
As a developer of MotoHawk, these are the fundamental rules that must be obeyed. It is a mission statement of sorts that drives the high quality, flexibility and consistency of MotoHawk. It also illustrates the direction of our technology as we strive to improve our tool.
All input/output ports are integer types
With many different module types and interfaces, it is possible to have modules that do not support floating point. Therefore all edges to the OS must have integer types.
All blocks are as complicated as they need to be
Due the variation in applications developed by MotoHawk, developers want to use different behaviors in vastly different ways. Therefore, blocks that overcomplicate a basic behavior are not desired.
Optimized Build Process
Woodward's build process uses Mathworks Embedded Coder, a full featured production intent coder. The MotoHawk build process also features MotoCoder Technology - which optimizes the build for memory use (less Flash and less RAM used per build) using Optimized Driver Inclusion. If an output is not used, it is not included in the build. MotoCoder technology also allows ports to new hardware to occur very rapidly via software re-use, and behavior added for one module is often easily applied to another module.
MATLAB version support
MotoHawk versions support a subset of MATLAB versions. In older versions (2008b and earlier), MATLAB versions 6.5.1 to 2009a were supported. Beginning with MotoHawk 2009a, the subset is smaller. See table below for MotoHawk / MATLAB version support:
MotoHawk Compatibility Matrix
| MATLAB Version | MotoHawk Version | |||||||||||
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| 0.8.3 | 2008a | 2008b | 2009a | 2009b | 2010a | 2010b | 2011a | 2011b | 2012a | 2012b | 2013a | |
| 6.5.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.0.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.2 (R2006a) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.3 (R2006b) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.4 (R2007a) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.5 (R2007b) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.6 (R2008a) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.7 (R2008b) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| 7.8 (R2009a) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| 7.9 (R2009b) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 7.9.1 (R2009bSP1) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 7.10 (R2010a) | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 7.11 (R2010b) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes(*) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 7.11.1 (R2010bSP1) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes(*) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 7.11.2 (R2010bSP2) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 7.12 (R2011a) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 7.13 (R2011b) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 7.14 (R2012a) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 8.0 (R2012b) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 8.1 (R2013a) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
- (*) in SP1 only
- (A) in current beta
- (B) planned in future beta or service pack
Toolchain independent
Beginning with MotoHawk 2009b, alpha level support for GCC is included in MotoHawk. GCC is considered Alpha level in 2009b and 2010a, and Beta forward.
For more information, see Using GCC with MotoHawk.
What is Required to Use MotoHawk?
MotoHawk requires the following software be installed -
1. Matlab
2. Simulink
3. Embedded Coder
4. Simulink Coder
A Supported Compiler is also required. For the 5xx and 55xx modules, the Open Source GCC compiler as well as Greenhills compiler is supported. The S12's require Code Warrior by Freescale. See Compilers for more information.
MotoTune is used to Program the ECU, and for Calibration. Industry Standard tools that use CCP or XCP may also be used for calibration.
64-Bit
MotoHawk Versions Prior to 2010a Do Not Support 64-Bit Windows, Windows 7, or 64-Bit Matlab.
Support for 64-bit Windows 7 was added in MotoHawk 2010a. Only 32-Bit MATLAB is supported by MotoHawk 2010a. 64-Bit Matlab is NOT supported in MH2010a.
64-Bit MATLAB is supported in MotoHawk 2010b and Higher.
Windows 8 is not Currently Supported in any MotoHawk Release.
Windows 7
MotoHawk support for Windows 7 was added in MotoHawk 2010a.
Windows 8
MotoHawk is not currently supported on Windows 8 for any version of MotoHawk. The development team is working on Windows 8 support for a future release.
The MotoHawk Blockset
The MotoHawk Blockset supports many different behaviors including I/O, fault management, calibration, plus many many more. It is a rich set of behaviors available in a palette in Simulink.
External Links
Motohawk - MotoHawk Official Website
