User`s guide

5 Software Environment and Demos
5-4
This pane contains all the objects in your xPC Target hierarchy. As you add
objects to your system, xPC Target Explorer adds their corresponding nodes
to the
xPC Target Hierarchy pane. The most important node is the HostPC
node. It represents the host PC. The most important node is the
TargetPC
node. Each time you add a target PC node to xPC Target Explorer, a
corresponding node is added to the
xPC Target Hierarchy pane, starting
with
TargetPC1 and incrementing with the addition of each new target PC
node.
The right pane displays information about the an item selected in the left
pane. This pane also displays xPC Target environment properties for the
HostPC and TargetPC nodes. You edit these properties in the right pane.
To change the size of the left or right pane, select and move the divider
between the panes left or right.
The
Configuration node under the Target PC node has the property Target
boot mode
. If your license does not include the xPC Target Embedded
Option, the
Target boot mode box is grayed out, with BootFloppy as your
only selection. With the xPC Target Embedded Option, you have the
additional choices of
DOSLoader and StandAlone.
2 Change properties in the environment in the right pane by entering new
property values in the text boxes or choosing items from the lists.
xPC Target Explorer applies changes to the environment properties as soon
as you make them in the right pane.
To change environment properties for target PCs, see “Configuring
Environment Parameters for Target PCs” on page 5-4.
Configuring Environment Parameters for Target PCs
You can optionally configure the environment parameters for the target PC
node in your xPC Target system. This section assumes that
• You have already added target PC nodes to your system.
• You have already configured the communication parameters between the
host PC and the target PC.