This section provides a general description of Typhoon HIL Control Center and lists the
main software components accessible from it, as well as additional software tools which can be
invoked from its interface.
The Typhoon HIL Control Center integrates all the standard software components. The Welcome
screen (Figure 1) opens on the application startup,
containing shortcuts to all standard toolchain components. Each tool started from the Typhoon
HIL Control Center will be shown in an independent window.
The Welcome screen contains links to the following tools:
By clicking on the Additional tools button you will show/hide links from which you can
start all other tools. These tools can also be started using appropriate shortcuts which are
created during software installation (in the Start menu, Typhoon HIL Control Center->
Tools subsection).
In the upper left corner, you will find the button () that opens the small Hardware Info panel whose purpose
is to show information about all connected HIL devices (Figure 2).
After Examples Hub, you can find the () button which opens
the Documentation Hub (Figure 5) with a searchable list of available documentation that come with the Typhoon HIL Control
Center installation.
Figure 5. Documentation Hub
Next to the Documentation Hub button the license info button () is located which opens the License Information Panel
(Figure 6). In this
panel all License related information is located, including information about the Toolbox
licenses.Figure 6. License Information Panel
Note: Each time you start the Typhoon HIL Control Center, the License Information Panel will check
if a new license is available and update it if necessary.
Note: It is possible to define a global license which will be shared among all users on a given
PC. To do this on the Windows platform, create the following folder structure on your operating
system drive root: .typhoon_hil\license\ (example: C:\.typhoon_hil\license) and place
the license file into that license folder. On Linux, the global license folder is defined as
TYPHOON_LICENSE_DIR/license where TYPHOON_LICENSE_DIR is the environment variable.
This global license will always take priority over the license in the user folder. To stop
using the global license, just delete the folder structure of the global license.