This tutorial shows basic usages of Control System Designer introduced in IBM® Rational Rhapsody V8.0. Control System Designer is an enhanced version of Plant Model Integration.

Plant Model Integration in Rhapsody V7.6 has the following capabilities:

• Exports a Simulink model from an Internal Block Diagram (IBD).
• Generates an S-Function from statecharts.

• Exports a skeleton Simulink model from a <<SimulinkBlock>> block.
• Supports Simulink bus objects and enumerations.
• Improves type mapping between SysML and Simulink.
• Synchronizes SysML attributes with MATLAB variables and model arguments.
• Supports new Simulink file format (.SLX).
• Simulates multiple times without re-exporting Simulink models.
• Defines signals to be plotted in a SysML model.
• Invokes only one MATLAB process.
• Improves S-Function’s animation.
• Improves Panel Diagram’s usability.