ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as an introduction to the continuous simulation program, Simulink®. It is similar in many ways to its predecessors such as CSMP (Continuous System Modeling Program), ACSL (Advanced Continuous Simulation Language), TUTSIM (Twente University of Technology Simulator), MATRIX-X, STELLA, and EASY5. The major advantage of Simulink stems from its tight integration with MATLAB®, the data analysis and visualization program with its own structured programming language. The numerous (37 at the time of this printing) MATLAB toolboxes in diverse areas of engineering, science, and business extend the capabilities of Simulink.
