5.1.39. DTC enable periodic lamp updates (pdtc_EnablePeriodicLampUpdates)

Allows an application to enable or disable periodic processing of the pdtc lamp status.

5.1.39.1. Supported targets

All targets

5.1.39.2. Required license

None (Main library). (See Section 2.3, “Licensed Features”.)

5.1.39.3. Description

By default, the platform software will periodically determine the appropriate lamp status by examining the state of all DTCs in all tables. For applications with a large number of DTCs, this processing can take a significant amount of time.

This block allows an application to programmatically disable and enable this processing.

5.1.39.4. Inports

  • enable

    Set to 0 to disable periodic lamp updates, 1 to re-enable them. Note: Changing the value to 0 while the lamps are currently being processed will not interrupt that processing, but take effect at the next iteration of the DTC processing task.

    Range: 0 or 1

    Value type:Boolean
    Calibratable:No

5.1.39.5. Outports

None.

5.1.39.6. Mask parameters

5.1.39.7. Notes

If an application does not need to disable periodic lamp updates, this block is not required. If this block is not present in a model, periodic lamp updates will always be performed.