Implementation Casts

Implementation casts are a primitive element type. They provide the user with the ability to influence the implementation of intermediate results within arithmetic chains. This allow the user to display knowledge regarding particular physical correlations (for example, that a specific range of values is not exceeded at a defined point in the model) in the model, without requiring the allocation of physical memory.

Note
Implementation casts cannot be used in conjunction with logical elements.

Here is a small example to illustrate this functionality: Example: Implementation Casts

Another application for implementation casts is the targeted allocation of implementations to the inputs and outputs of operators. This function allows you to select target arithmetic services; see Arithmetic Services for specific operators. In this context, implementation casts replace the present operator implementations.

As the name implies, implementation casts only affect the implementation. More accurately, this means that implementation casts are taken into account for the code generation of experiments (see Project Settings) of these types:

implementation experiment and
object based controller implementation

They are ignored for these types:

physical experiment
quantized physical experiment