Difference between Simulink Inport and Veristand Inport

[martym]

I made a simple model in Simulink that used the default Simulink InPort and Outport and was able to successfully import it into Veristand and deploy to RT target.  I recently noticed that I have a Veristand specific Inport available in my simulink Library Browser. 

Does anyone know the difference?

[Jarrod_S. · Accepted solution]

The VeriStand inport and outport offers two additional features:

1. You can place a VeriStand inport or outport in a subsystem, and they turn into inputs and outputs in the model that you can directly map from VeriStand, rather than inputs or outputs to the subsystem block itself.

2. If you are doing co-simulation (running the MDL file directly instead of building it into a DLL and running it in VeriStand), you will need to use the VeriStand inports and outports to communicate properly. Since you are compiling a model and deploying it to an RT target, this use-case does not apply to you.