In industrial practice, for the designers and researchers of the electro-hydraulic servo
system, it is desirable to boost the reliability of controllers, to shorten the design cycle of control
algorithms, to simplify the modification of control algorithms during experiments and to shorten
training period for operators. In this paper, we present a new, complete and integrated method based
on the rapid control prototyping for the real-time digital control applied in electro-hydraulic servo
system. The approach uses a collection of tools that include both software (LabVIEW and Matlab)
and hardware (a host industrial computer and a target developed digital signal processor controller).
An application example of the methodology, synchronous loading test system based on artificial
neural networks, completes the discussion about the performance of the designed system.