Introduction and Key Features

Introduction
Simulink is a platform for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design of dynamic systems. It provides an interactive graphical environment and a customizable set of block libraries that let you accurately design, simulate, implement, and test control, signal processing, communications, and other time-varying systems.

Add-on products extend the Simulink environment with tools for specific modeling and design tasks and for code generation, algorithm implementation, test, and verification.

Simulink is integrated with MATLAB, providing immediate access to an extensive range of tools for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis and access, and numerical computation.


Key Features
1. Extensive and expandable libraries of predefined blocks
2. Interactive graphical editor for assembling and managing intuitive block diagrams
3. Ability to manage complex designs by segmenting models into hierarchies of design components
4. Model Explorer to navigate, create, configure, and search all signals, parameters, and properties of your model
5. Ability to interface with other simulation programs and incorporate hand-written code, including MATLAB algorithms
6. Option to run fixed- or variable-step simulations of time-varying systems interactively or through batch simulation
7. Functions for interactively defining inputs and viewing outputs to evaluate model behavior
8. Graphical debugger to examine simulation results and diagnose unexpected behavior in your design
9. Full access to MATLAB for analyzing and visualizing data , developing graphical user interfaces, and creating model data and parameters
10. Model analysis and diagnostics tools to ensure model consistency and identify modeling errors