More scope for model-based design

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 7, 2004

Simulink 6 brings model-based design to complex projects encompassing large models and multiple design teams.

Simulink 6 brings model-based design to complex projects encompassing large models and multiple design teams and improves the process for design, implementation and verification within and across workgroups.

New capabilities in Simulink for controls, signal processing and communications support a broader range of applications.

The new features of Simulink 6 enable faster development cycle times, eliminate manual coding errors, and facilitate innovation and exploration in control, signal processing and communication system development.

Simulink 6 contains many new features that support large-scale, embedded system development projects.

With new component-based modelling and unified data-dictionary management capabilities, teams can build and share multiple configurations and subsystems design efficiently within and across organisations.

This new capability also provides enhanced performance for engineers integrating, simulating and optimising large models containing hundreds of thousands of parameters and blocks.

"Model-based design from The MathWorks has transformed the way embedded systems are developed by replacing paper documents, physical prototypes, hand-coding and decoupled testing with executable models, simulation, automatic code generation and tests tightly integrated with design", said Will Strauss, President of Forward Concepts.

"By bringing model-based design to larger-scale development projects and demanding real-time applications, and by enabling multiple engineering groups to contribute to a common design, Simulink 6 will have a substantial impact on the way large and distributed teams can design, implement, and test embedded systems".

The new version of Simulink also enables engineers to model, simulate and implement more types of real-time systems and components, including RF electronics for wireless systems and video and image processing systems.

Simulink 6 is also practical for modelling and simulating drivelines for automotive, aerospace, and industrial equipment.

With Simulink 6 and the new fixed-point maths support in Matlab 7, more engineering teams can now design, implement, and verify systems comprised of fixed-point hardware and software.

Additionally, the new version enables Simulink users to write algorithms using a subset of the Matlab language and automatically generate embeddable C code using The MathWorks Real-Time Workshop.

"The release of Simulink 6 is the latest example of our longstanding commitment to provide engineers with the tools they need to build and test more complex and higher performance embedded systems", said Jim Tung, MathWorks Fellow, The MathWorks.

"With support for larger models, integration of control and signal processing design, and new capabilities for design, implementation and verification, Simulink 6 represents the most comprehensive platform for model-based design and system simulation".

Simulink 6 is available immediately for Windows, Unix/Linux, and Macintosh systems.

Pricing starts at GBP 2400.