User`s guide

4 Embedded Option
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Introduction
The xPC Target Embedded Option allows you to boot the xPC Target kernel
from a 3.5 inch disk drive and other devices, including a flash disk or a hard
disk drive. By using the xPC Target Embedded Option, you can configure a
target PC to automatically start execution of your embedded application for
continuous operation each time the system is booted. You can use this
capability to deploy your own real-time applications on target PC hardware.
The xPC Target Embedded Option has two modes, DOSLoader and
StandAlone, that create two different types of embedded target applications:
• DOSLoader mode allows you to boot a target PC from a device other than a
3.5 inch disk, such as a hard disk or flash memory. You can then download a
target application from the host PC to the target PC.
• StandAlone mode bundles the kernel and target application into one entity
that you can copy onto a 3.5 inch disk or alternate device. This allows the
target PC to run as a stand-alone PC with the target application already
loaded.
Additionally, the xPC Target Embedded Option allows you to deploy
stand-alone GUI applications running on the host PC to control, change
parameters, and acquire signal data from a target application.
Without the xPC Target Embedded Option, you can create, but not deploy,
stand-alone GUI applications running on the host PC to control, change
parameters, and acquire signal data from a target application. This feature
uses the xPC Target API with any programming environment, or the xPC
Target COM API with any programming environment, such as Visual Basic,
that can use COM objects. See the xPC Target API documentation for further
information about this feature.