signed to simulate Discrete Event Systems (DES) and it
is fully embedded in Simulink, who is a traditional timedriven
simulator, so that it is equipped with functionality
that enables an effective co-existence of time-driven and
event-driven components in complex hybrid systems. In
addition, this design allows SimEvents to take advantage
of a rich collection of visualization, data processing, and
computation tools in both Simulink and MATLAB.
Stateflow is an environment for modeling and simulating
combinatorial and sequential decision logic based on
state machines and flow charts. Stateflow lets you combine
graphical and tabular representations, including
state transition diagrams, flow charts, state transition
tables, and truth tables, to model how your system reacts
to events, time-based conditions, and external input
signals.
With these feature Matlab/Simulink is a platform that
offers a multi-paradigm tool for modeling complex systems.