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VisSim 6.0 now Available
25 October, 2005
VisSim version 6.0 is now available in Australia and New Zealand. VisSim version 6.0 adds new blocks, an improved simulation engine, and enhanced user interface.
VisSim is an award winning program for the modeling and simulation of complex nonlinear dynamic systems. VisSim combines an intuitive drag and drop block diagram interface with a powerful simulation engine. The main additions to the program are;
New blocks
The new blocks, audioIn and audioOut, read and write audio from .WAV files or a Windows audio device. The delayed-Switch block enables the user to control the delay for the ‘on’ and ‘off’ commands found in process control. Version 6.0 provides new options for more accurate control over how the Display Block formats numeric data. Other new blocks include: maxElement, minElement, time of day, and video. The export and import blocks have been improved to allow ‘,’ as decimal point, and allow ‘.’ as a field separator. The import block now understands hh:mm:ss.ff as a time specification format.
The new Maple interface blocks communicate with Maple, mathematical problem-solving software. These blocks allow the reading and writing of scalar and matrix data to the Maple workspace, as well as execution of Maple scripts. This brings a fast smooth interface between VisSim and Maple.
The new add-on ‘Knobs and Gauges’ block set lets the user specify various blocks to give high quality graphical behavior of interactive gauges, meters, dials, switches and knobs. This allows the user to create a ‘dashboard’ face plate to drive and monitor your VisSim model.
Enhanced user interface
VisSim Version 6.0 brings an improved user interface. The addition of the VisSim Tutor allows the user to annotate a VisSim diagram with interactive help balloons so that the user can read and understand it better.
The new VisSim Diagram Explorer Window now allows the user to explore the VisSim menu hierarchy. This makes it very convenient to insert blocks from deeply nested menu trees.
Simulation engine enhancements
Subsystem Superclocking, which allows all blocks within a Compound block to run at a user defined rate faster than the overall sym rate. It allows for containment of high frequency components, iterating through matrixes, or modeling of partial differential equations.
Two new integration methods for solving adaptive step stiff systems.
A real time scale factor which allows the user to run real time simulations at multiples or fractions of real time.
Auto check pointing lets the user automatically save diagram state to a file name with a time stamp suffix. The file contains the current state of all variables in the diagram at that point of the simulation. This is useful for operator training, allowing the operator to go back in time and re-simulate questionable decisions.
"When we developed the wheel motor drives for the Segway Human Transporter,VisSim was a great tool for simulating control algorithm behavior, tuning loop gains, and verifying that what we built was behaving as expected." - John David Heinzmann, Lead Engineer,Motor Drive Development,Segway LLC.
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