Code Generation and Experimenting with Projects

The code generation and experimentation facilities are much more powerful for projects than for components. Only offline experimentation with floating-point arithmetic (build option Physical Experiment, see Build Node) is available for components. Projects offer online experimentation, and both offline and online experimentation can be combined with either floating-point arithmetic or quantized floating-point arithmetic (build option Quantized Physical Experiment) or fixed-point arithmetic (build option Implementation Experiment). The same code generation facilities are available for components, when they are experimented with in a project context.

By default, the generated code is stored in the ASCET database/workspace. However, you can activate external code storage, i.e. the generated code is stored on the Windows file system.

For ASCET‑SE targets, you can link existing object files to an executable file without new code generation and compilation. This is primarily of interest when your project contains external C code files which are integrated during the make process.