
Aerospace Blockse
t™ 3
User’s Guide

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Aerospace Blockset™ User ’s Guide
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Revision History
July 2002 Online only New for Version 1.0 (Release 13)
July 2003 Online only Revised for Version 1.5 (Release 13SP1)
June 2004 Online only Revised for Version 1.6 (Release 14)
October 2004 Online only Revised for Version 1.6.1 (Release 14SP1)
March 2005 Online only Revised for Version 1.6.2 (Release 14SP2)
May 2005 Online only Revised for Version 2.0 (Release 14SP2+)
September 2005 First printing Revised for Version 2.0.1 (Release 14SP3)
March 2006 Online only Revised for Version 2.1 (Release 2006a)
September 2006 Online only Revised for Version 2.2 (Release 2006b)
March 2007 Online only Revised for Version 2.3 (Release 2007a)
September 2007 Second printing Revised for Version 3.0 (Release 2007b)
March 2008 Online only Revised for Version 3.1 (Release 2008a)


Contents
Getting Started
1
Product Overvie
w
.................................
1-2
Real-Time Work
shop
®
Code Generation Support ........
1-2
Embedded MATLA
B™ Function Support
..............
1-2
Related P rodu
cts
..................................
1-4
Requirements
for the Aerospace Blockset™ Product
.....
1-4
Other Relate
d P roducts
............................
1-4
Running a De
mo Model
............................
1-5
Introducti
on
......................................
1-5
What This De
mo Illustrates
.........................
1-5
Opening the
Model
................................
1-6
Key Subsys
tems
..................................
1-7
Running th
eDemo
................................
1-10
Modifyin
gtheModel
...............................
1-12
Learning
More
....................................
1-17
Using th
eMATLAB
®
Help System for Documentation and
Demos
........................................ 1-17
Finding
Aerospace B lockset™ H elp
...................
1-18
Using t
he Aerospace Blockset™ Software
2
Introd
ucing the Aerospace Blockset™ Libraries
......
2-2
Intro
duction
......................................
2-2
Openi
ng the A eros pace Blockset™ Library in Microsoft
®
Windo
ws
®
Systems ..............................
2-2
Open
ing the Aerospace Blockset™ Library on UNIX
®
Plat
forms
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2-4
Summ
ary of A erospace Blockset™ L ibrarie s
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2-5
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