Programmer Interfaces

ADvantage is designed to enable users to get up and running quickly. However, our customers often want to integrate external software and hardware components. This may include the integration of legacy software and hardware systems, or may be the addition of new third party tools.

ADvantage is the most open and extensible HIL development tool set available, and the ADvantage Programmer Interfaces play a significant role in that extensibility. ADI offers the following programmer interfaces:

ADvantageVI COM Interface
COM, Component Object Model, is the most widely used component software model in the world. It provides the richest set of integrated services, the widest choice of easy-to-use tools, and the largest set of available applications.

The COM interface is an integral part of ADvantageVI. It allows you to build custom applications that integrate ADvantageVI real-time simulations with COTS ActiveX products. In addition, you could seamlessly integrate ADvantage projects with low cost, high functionality software applications, such as Visual Basic, Excel, Access, Matlab, LabVIEW, or any application with its own COM interface.

  ADvantageVI COM Interface data sheet

COSIM API
The COSIM API is a C/C++ callable function library that allows the user to control the RTS through a custom user interface application. This exposes all the run-time functionality of ADvantage through function calls. ADvantage functionality can thus be integrated into user-developed C/C++ applications. This enables users to have any level of system customization. Applications of the COSIM API include the following:

		Development of custom visualization and graphics
		Integration with legacy test and development systems
		Integration with company standard development tools
		Addition of new third-party tools
		Development of custom test interfaces

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