The Signal & Scope Manager :: Working with Signals (Using Simulink)

Using Simulink

The Signal & Scope Manager

The Signal & Scope Manager lets you globally manage signal generators and viewers.

Note The Signal & Scope Manager requires that you start MATLAB with Java enabled (the default).

To display the Signal & Scope Manager, select Signal & Scope Manager from the model editor's Tools or context menu. The Signal & Scope Manager appears.

The Signal & Scope Manager contains the following groups of controls.

Generator and Viewer Types

This group of controls lets you create signal generators and viewers of various types and associate them with your model.

The tree control displays a list of the types of generators and viewers installed on your system. The tree's second-level nodes group the generators and viewers by the products that provides them (i.e., Simulink and any MathWorks blocksets installed on your system). Expand a product's nodes to see the generators and viewers that it provides.

For information on the attributes and usage of the generators and viewers, see the documentation for the identically named source (i.e., generator) and sink (i.e., viewer) blocks in the product's documentation. For example, for information on the generators and viewers provided with Simulink, see the documentation for the corresponding blocks in the Simulink Sources and Sinks libraries.

Note The Scope viewer cannot display signals originating from the toplevel inports of a referenced model.

To create an instance of a generator or viewer and associate with the currently selected model, select its type in the type list and then click the Attach to model button beneath the list. Or to create a viewer and attach it to the currently selected signal, select Create Viewer from the signal's context menu to display a list of viewer types, select a type to display a list of viewers of that type, then select a viewer. For example, to create a Simulink Scope viewer and attach it to a signal, select Create Viewer->Simulink->Scope fromt the signal's context menu.

To connect an existing viewer to a signal, first select Connect To Viewer from the signal's context menu, next select the viewer from the list of viewers that pops up, then select an axes from the list of axes that pops up.

Note You can connect multiple signals to a single axes of a Simulink Scope viewer.

Scalar Expansion of Inputs and Parameters Generator and Viewer Objects