Patent ID: 7983879

Claim:
A physical medium holding computer-executable instructions for controlling at least one of data acquisition and logging in a real-time modeling environment, the data acquisition carried out according to data acquisition logic, the medium comprising: instructions for accessing a real-time graphical model that includes a plurality of components, the plurality of components including at least one inspection component for exposing at least a part of the data acquisition logic such that the data acquisition logic is provided as a part of the real-time graphical model, the data acquisition logic including parameters configurable by a user, the parameters controlling data acquisition during an execution of the real-time graphical model; instructions for configuring at least one of the parameters of the data acquisition logic in the inspection component; and instructions for generating code for the real-time graphical model that includes the at least one inspection component, the instructions comprising instructions for generating the data acquisition logic in the code based on the at least one configured parameter.