The usage of SIMULINK interactive tools include modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems, including controls, signal processing, communications, and other complex systems. It supports linear and nonlinear systems, modeled in continuous time, sampled time, or a hybrid of the two. Systems can also be multirate for example there have different parts that are sampled or updated at different rates.
It also can be used to access to all the MATLAB analysis tools, so user can take the results and analyze and visualize them. A goal of Simulink is to give a sense of the fun of modeling and simulation through an environment that encourages user to pose a question, model it, and see what happens.
SIMULINK encourages the user to try things out. User can easily build models from scratch or take an existing model and modify it. Simulations are interactive, so user can change parameters on the spot and immediately see what happens.
The relation between MATLAB and SIMULINK are incorporated together so that user can simulate, analyse, and revise the models in either environment at any point.
Tool for Model-Based Design
Simulink provides user with demos and the tools to model and simulate almost any real-world problem. Simulink provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for building models as lock diagrams, allowing user to draw models as draw with pencil and paper.
Simulink also includes a comprehensive block library of sinks, sources, linear and nonlinear components, and connectors. If these blocks do not meet user needs, however user can also create your own blocks. The interactive graphical environment simplifies the modeling process, eliminating the need to formulate differential and difference equations in a language or program. Models are hierarchical, so user can build models using both top-down and bottom-up approaches.
There also can view the system at a high level, then double-click blocks to see increasing levels of model detail. This approach provides insight into how a model is organized and how its parts interact.
Tool for Simulation[6]
After define a model, user can simulate it, using a choice of mathematical integration methods, either from the Simulink menus or by entering commands in the MATLAB® Command Window. The menus are convenient for interactive work, while the command line is useful for running a batch of simulations. Using scopes and other display blocks, user can see the simulation results while the simulation runs.
Then can change many parameters and see what happens for “what if” exploration. The simulation results can be put in the MATLAB workspace for post processing and visualization.
Tool for Analysis[6]