Installation

System requirements

Initially, the same requirements apply to the target for MATLAB^®/Simulink^® as for TwinCAT 3 C/C++. For a detailed description of the TwinCAT 3 C/C++ requirements, please refer to Chapter 4, "Requirements", of the TwinCAT 3 C++ manual.

In the following sections, these requirements are only referred to briefly, not in detail.

On the engineering PC

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (with Service Pack 1), 2012, 2013, 2015 or 2017 Professional, Premium, Ultimate or Community Edition

Installation under Windows always with right-click run as admin…
For Visual Studio 2015 check the Visual C++ checkbox during installation
For Visual Studio 2017, manually select "Desktop development with C++"

Microsoft "Windows Driver Kit" version 7.1.0 (only required for TwinCAT versions older than TwinCAT 3 build 4024.0)

It is sufficient to install the "Build Environments".
Set the environment variable (variable name WINDDK7, variable value <Installation directory> e.g. C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1)

TwinCAT 3 XAE

On the runtime PC

IPC or Embedded CX PC with Microsoft operating system based on "Windows NT kernel" (Win XP, Win 7 and corresponding embedded versions, Win 10)
TwinCAT 3 XAR

TwinCAT 3.0 only supports 32-bit operating systems on the target
TwinCAT 3.1 supports 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. If the target is a x64 system, the created drivers must be signed. The TE1400 supports OS driver signing. See "x64: driver signing" in the TwinCAT 3 C++ manual

In addition to the above requirements, which originate from the requirements of TwinCAT 3 C/C++, the following requirements apply to the engineering PC:

MATLAB^®/Simulink^® R2010b up to and including R2019a. As of and including R2019a, the use of TE1400 version 2.x.xxxx.x is recommended.
Simulink Coder^TM (in MATLAB^® versions prior to R2011a: Real-Time Workshop^®)
MATLAB Coder^TM (in MATLAB^® versions prior to R2011a: part of the Real-Time Workshop^®)
Installing the TE1400 Target for MATLAB^®/Simulink^®

Setup instructions

Install one of the supported Visual Studio versions, if not already installed. Pay attention to the installation of the C++ components.

1. Start TwinCAT 3 Setup, if it does not already exist.

If a Visual Studio and a TwinCAT installation already exists but the Visual Studio version does not meet the requirements mentioned above (e.g. Visual Studio Shell or Visual Studio without Visual C++), you first have to install a suitable Visual Studio version (install Visual C++, if necessary). Then run TwinCAT 3 Setup to integrate TwinCAT 3 into the new (or modified) Visual Studio version.

2. If necessary, install the Microsoft Windows Driver Kit (see Installation "Microsoft Windows Driver Kit (WDK)" in the TwinCAT 3 C/C++ manual).
The order in which the Windows Driver Kit was installed is irrelevant.

3. If you do not have a MATLAB^® installation on your system, install it. The order in which MATLAB^® was installed is irrelevant.

4. Start the setup TE1400-TargetForMatlabSimulink to install the TE1400.
The TE1400 is installed in the TwinCAT folder, i.e. it is separate from the MATLAB^® installation. A MATLAB^® version that exists on the system can be linked to the TE1400 according to point 6.

5. Start MATLAB^® as administrator and execute %TwinCAT3Dir%..\Functions\TE1400-TargetForMatlabSimulink\SetupTwinCatTarget.p in MATLAB^®.

A setup window opens. See the following section.

Installation 1:

The p-file links the MATLAB^® version used to the TE1400. If a new MATLAB^® version is installed on the system, the p-file must be executed in the new version.
If a new TE1400 version is installed on top of an existing TE1400 version, the p-file should also be run again.

	User Account Control If MATLAB^® is executed in a system with activated User Account Control (UAC) without administrator rights, the MATLAB^® path cannot be stored permanently. In this case, SetupTwinCatTarget.p must be executed every time MATLAB^® is started, since otherwise some files required for generating TwinCAT modules cannot be found.

	Driver signing for targets with x64 operating system To use an x64-operating system as runtime PC, the drivers must be signed. Details can be found in the TC3 C++ manual under Driver signing.