10.1. Introduction

Simulink® is a software package and is a graphical extension of MATLAB® for modelling, simulating and analysing a variety of dynamical systems under a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment. In Simulink, models of the systems are drawn on screen as block diagrams. It includes a comprehensive block library for creating standard components such as sinks, sources, connectors, linear and non-linear components. To make a model for any particular system, the components required for the model are selected from the Library Browser and are then dragged and dropped in the Simulink window using the mouse. It is integrated with MATLAB and data can be easily transferred between the programs.

Get MATLAB® and Its Applications in Engineering: [Based on MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)] now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.