Systems Engineering

For systems engineering, use System Composer™ to model architectures and component behaviors that represent and simulate your system. The workflow in System Composer involves capturing stakeholder needs into system-level requirements and then using them to drive your architectural design. With System Composer, you can:

Simulink Variant Manager™ provides tools to configure, manage, and analyze design variants within Simulink models and System Composer architectures. You can define variant configurations that represent specific combinations of design choices and apply system-wide constraints to prevent invalid variant combinations. You can also use Variant Analyzer to compare configurations and detect coverage gaps, and use Variant Reducer to generate standalone models for deployment or sharing with external teams. Simulink Variant Manager integrates with System Composer variant components for managing variability at the architecture level, with Simulink Test™ for systematic verification of variant combinations, and with Simulink Coverage™ for measuring test coverage across configurations.

By adding Requirements Toolbox™, you can define functional and design requirements and link them to System Composer components and ports. Use Requirements Toolbox together with Simulink Test to automatically verify requirements by creating links to test cases.

Assessing the safety and reliability of a system is a core part of systems engineering, in which you analyze how a design responds to component failures, identify hazards early in development, and assess whether the architecture satisfies safety requirements. By adding Simulink Fault Analyzer™, you can perform these activities on your architectures. Inject faults onto signals in System Composer models and simulate their effects to assess how your architecture responds to faults. Use the Safety Analysis Manager to conduct the systematic safety assessments that safety-critical development processes commonly involve, including tabular analyses such as Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) and Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), and tree-based analyses such as Fault Tree Analyses (FTAs). To maintain traceability from hazards through design to verification, use Requirements Toolbox to link faults and safety analysis artifacts to requirements, tests, and architectural elements.

With all of these tools, you can create, manage, and verify requirements for architecture-level design models throughout the lifecycle of your program.