An XPad target is a plug-in module you can load from XPad's target-menu.

Each plug-in module of XPad has a compiler supporting a specific family of devices and comes with a large number of libraries. For each family target-definitions can be developed (by GenerExe or by you), customizing the plug-in for specific device and/or (inhouse) platforms. Easy to understand script-files are used to add: fully graphical hardware configuration editors, fully graphical simulation panels (traces), wizards and platform-specific template models. Target-family and/or device specific libraries can be easily added to extend XPad's library suite! A loaded target adds the following target-specific functionality to XPad: An environment/hardware configuration editor, allowing you to specify the "physical" context of your software: hardware interfaces/protocols for embedded targets, but also Windowed user interfaces for Windows-CE and PalmOS targets; Most targets allow you to highly customize the configuration editor to match the look and feel you prefer and/or that fits the specific target-device of the family of devices supported. Built-in libraries of functions which can be called from blocks in the flow-diagrams. These will show up when you use the function-editor to insert/edit an entry in a flow-block. With some knowledge of the target's native instruction-set it is easy to add your own libraries; "Target variables" in the data-browser, which represent global configuration/execution registers of the target. Most of the time you won't need to access these variables. I.e. you can find the status-register of a microcontroller here or some scheduler-option for a higher level environment (i.e. which comes with an Operating System API supported by  XPad); The simulator and control-windows to monitor and control the software's environment during simulation; Resource-editors for targets that support graphical user interfaces; Target specific help-files explaining how to use the different features/functions of this target; An optimizing compiler generating either assembly (for micro controller targets) or runtime executables which can be loaded and executed on targets which come with built-in operating systems (i.e. for PalmOS). Many examples, templates and wizards showing how to maximize the use of the different features; For some targets, third party freeware tools may be included, you can use to assemble/load native target-files.

On the left you can browse the targets which are currently available for XPad.

Note that these targets include both microcontrollers as well as higher level software environments. The latter targets use the existing operating system and their API, allowing you access to built-in -already available- services and sometimes access to third-party (runtime-) libraries. The microcontroller targets -which often consists of bare hardware- generate their own (realtime) executives. XPad's execution model is comfortable and efficient in both types of environments!