Introduction This document is part of the “Introduction to Using Simulink” seminar. This seminar is designed for
people that have never used Simulink. There are two components to the seminar. There are
exercises in a separate document that will take you step by step through the tasks required to
build and use a Simulink model. Once you get started using Simulink, you will find a lot of the
functionality is self-intuitive. Inevitably, there are things that need a bit more explanation. So the
other part of the Seminar is a talk and demonstration. This document contains the notes for the
talk.
It would be impossible to put everything about Simulink into such a short document, so this
document concentrates on the parts of the package that are considered the most useful. It also
aims to highlight features that are not obvious to the casual user. The intention is that you use
these notes as a reference when carrying out the exercises and when building your own models.
Although these notes have their limits, I hope that they should be sufficient to get you started
using the package and that they cover most of your modelling needs.
This is not a Simulink manual. Sooner or later you will need to know more detail about something
within Simulink. This document is intended to be used in conjunction to the documentation
available within the package. Mathworks, creators of MATLAB & Simulink, provide extensive online
documentation for Simulink that can be accessed using the MATLAB help system. There is so much
online documentation that not many people have the time or inclination to read all of it. So an
aim of the Seminar is to emphasize the things that you ought to know about Simulink and to give
you some idea about where you can find any other information that you require.