Simulink communication in distributed system

Hi

For the calculating functionality in our system, we're going to use simulink as the underlying language. This is going to be a distributed system which means we would like to pass messages around. Is there a messaging capability in simulink? For ex: say we wanted to pass messages around using DDS or SOAP or Corba.

Thanks...

Mike

Answer 1

[Rick Rosson]

You may want to consider using SimEvents, which is an add-on package that works on top of Simulink.

For more information:

SimEvents

HTH.

Rick

[Mike]

Hi Rick

Thanks for the response. In looking this over, I have another question. Would this allow my simulink models to perform queries/transactions with say a db or do something like communicate with a publish/subscribe mechanism?

Thanks...

Mike

Answer 2

[Rick Rosson]

No, those are not features of SimEvents. But, we do offer an add-on for MATLAB called the Database Toolbox that does provide the ability to query ODBC- and JDBC-enabled databases.

For more information:

Database Toolbox

HTH.

Rick

Answer 3

[Mark McBroom]

MathWorks now offers a support package for DDS that provides MATLAB functions and Simulink blocks for sending/receiving DDS messages.

Answer 4

[Soonhyun Noh]

MathWorks now offers DDS Blockset to support modeling, simulation, and code generation for applications that publish/subscribe to DDS.