Model dynamic situations in DSP or mechanical Engineering

Simulink is a block-diagram modelling environment for simulating dynamic systems, evaluating performance, and refining control, DSP, and communications system designs. Simulink block diagrams provide a highly interactive environment for nonlinear simulation. You can run simulations from both pull-down menus or in batch mode from the command line. Results are displayed "live" during simulations using scope and graph blocks.

  Where MATLAB offers a familiar programming environment, Simulink and Stateflow provide a graphical design environment for modelling and simulating complex control, DSP and supervisory logic systems.  Built on MATLAB, these products can call any MATLAB function including user-written routines, allowing you to combine the best of both approaches. Even toolbox functions can be embedded within Simulink block-diagram models.

Simulink Blocksets

Blocksets provide specialist block components for use in your Simulink Models. There are blocksets for DSP, Fixed Point, Power Systems, Dials and Gauages, Communications, CDMA reference, nonlinear control design, aerospace, mechanical systems, virtual reality and various DSP targets. A list of all Simulink related products can be found here.

Code Development From Simulink Models.

Generate C and C++ code from Simulink and Stateflow models

Simulink Coder™ (formerly Real-Time Workshop^®) generates and executes C and C++ code from Simulink^® diagrams, Stateflow^® charts, and MATLAB^® functions. The generated source code can be used for real-time and nonreal-time applications, including simulation acceleration, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. You can tune and monitor the generated code using Simulink or run and interact with the code outside MATLAB and Simulink.

Generate C and C++ code optimized for embedded systems

Embedded Coder™ generates readable, compact, and fast C and C++ code for use on embedded processors, on-target rapid prototyping boards, and microprocessors used in mass production. Embedded Coder enables additional MATLAB Coder™ and Simulink Coder™ configuration options and advanced optimizations for fine-grain control of the generated code’s functions, files, and data. These optimizations improve code efficiency and facilitate integration with legacy code, data types, and calibration parameters used in production. You can incorporate a third-party development environment into the build process to produce an executable for turnkey deployment on your embedded system.

Using other MathWorks and third party products, code from Simulink models can also be generated for embedded systems, Texas Instruments DSP's as well as Xilinx and Altera FPGA's and Motorola DSP's.

Simulink Demo. (Click image to enlarge).