Stateflow
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Stateflow Design and simulate state machines 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 Stateflow you can design logic for supervisory control, task scheduling, and fault management applications. Stateflow includes state diagram animation and static and run-time checks for testing design consistency and completeness before implementation. Key Features ▪ Modeling environment, graphical components, and simulation engine for modeling and simulating complex logic ▪ Deterministic execution semantics with hierarchy, parallelism, temporal operators, and events ▪ State diagrams, state transition tables, and state transition matrices representing finite state machines ▪ Flow charts, MATLAB functions, and truth tables for representing algorithms ▪ State diagram animation, state activity logging, data logging, and integrated debugging for analyzing the design and detecting run-time errors ▪ Static and run-time checks for transition conflicts, cyclic problems, state inconsistencies, data-range violations, and overflow conditions ▪ Mealy and Moore finite-state machines Getting Started with Stateflow 3:25 Learn to build and simulate a state machine. Designing Logic Stateflow provides graphical and tabular interfaces for modeling system logic using state machines. In a state machine, you model the system’s modes of operation as states and represent the logic for switching between modes using transitions and junctions. You can model the different components in your system as states that execute exclusively or in parallel. Stateflow lets you manage the complexity of your design by organizing state diagram objects, functions, and components hierarchically. In Stateflow you can represent combinatorial logic graphically with flow charts and in tabular format with truth tables. Designing logic involves defining conditions to be checked and subsequent actions to be performed. Stateflow enables you to define conditions and actions in C or in MATLAB®. You can manage the data used in conditions and actions from the Simulink® Model Explorer. Before executing your design, Stateflow notifies you of possible state inconsistencies, unused data and events, and invalid transitions.

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*j Stateflow (ctwrt) jf_aiKontroVAir Comfoiier ■ Ealt £<Jit Ytew ffisruay Chart Simulation analysis cod* lools Help i%isl_aifConvoi»QAir CorNroller Stateflow Editor with a model of a cooling system. States with overlapping boundaries are highlighted in red. Designing Logic with Tables State transition tables in Stateflow provide a structured environment for modeling state machines. You build a state machine by adding rows for states, and columns for the transitions between states. State transition tables help you create state machines by providing dropdown menus for state names, automatic...

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Integrating Components into your Design You can reuse a component across diagrams and models by right-clicking it, converting it to an atomic subchart, and placing it in a library. To use the component, you drag it from the library and drop it into your diagram or model. When you update a component in the library, all instances of the component are automatically updated. You can organize components and functions hierarchically to represent your system concisely and accurately. Reusing States Multiple Times in a Diagram 3:47 Create and reuse components in Stateflow for large-scale modeling....

Analyzing Results During simulation you can visualize the simulation results by: ▪ Viewing states and data with Simulink displays and scopes ▪ Viewing logged data in the Simulation Data Inspector ▪ Building custom displays with MATLAB Alternatively, you can log diagram and state activity data for post-processing in MATLAB. Simulation data visualization options in Stateflow. Top left: Simulink Data Inspector for comparing specific signals; bottom left: custom MATLAB interface for analyzing data; right: Simulink Signal Selector for comparing specific states. Validating the Design and...