# Simulink Reviews **Vendor:** MathWorks **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 98 ## About Simulink Simulink is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports system-level design, simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems. Simulink provides a graphical editor, customizable block libraries, and solvers for modeling and simulating dynamic systems. It is integrated with MATLAB, enabling you to incorporate MATLAB algorithms into models and export simulation results to MATLAB for further analysis. Key Features: - Graphical editor for building and managing hierarchical block diagrams - Libraries of predefined blocks for modeling continuous-time and discrete-time systems - Simulation engine with fixed-step and variable-step ODE solvers - Scopes and data displays for viewing simulation results - Project and data management tools for managing model files and data - Model analysis tools for refining model architecture and increasing simulation speed - MATLAB Function block for importing MATLAB algorithms into models - Legacy Code Tool for importing C and C++ code into models Primary Value: Simulink enables engineers and scientists to design, simulate, and test complex systems within a unified environment, facilitating early detection of design issues and reducing development time. By integrating with MATLAB, it allows for seamless incorporation of algorithms and data analysis, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of system development. Simulink's support for automatic code generation and continuous verification streamlines the transition from design to implementation, ensuring robust and reliable embedded systems. ## Simulink Reviews ### 1. Good system modeling software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Simulink?** The wide variety of blocks and libraries for developing mechanical and electrical system models **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Documentation is not always clear, errors can be hard to track down the source of, it's expensive **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time hardware in loop for prototyping as well as analysis of complex electro-mechanical systems ### 2. Create, design and simulate **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** How useful and the multiple tools it gives it presents to you to simulate circuits and plc, so it saves a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** It requires a minimum process capacity (especially ram) from the computer, so, sometimes, based on the use, it can be a little bit slow, or it will close if your computer is not good enough. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to prove the behavior of plc circuits before implementing it in real life ### 3. Wide range of uses but lacks real-time capabilities. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruth J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is highly versatile and caters to businesses working on diverse projects, such as ours; it also offers specific toolboxes for specialized applications. It is widely known for its seamless integration with MATLAB; it has also allowed our business to leverage MATLAB's extensive mathematical and analytical capabilities within Simulink models, enabling advanced simulations and analysis. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** While Simulink provides real-time simulation capabilities, businesses like ours with specific real-time requirements or high-performance computing needs may find the built-in capabilities limited. There are compatibility and integration challenges; Integrating simulink with other software tools or existing IT infrastructure may require additional effort. Hence, compatibility issues or the need for custom interfaces can arise, especially when integrating simulink with external software, hardware or proprietary systems. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Model-based development allows our company to create executable models that serve as a single source of truth for system designs and requirements. From a business standpoint, this approach has benefitted our company by enhancing collaboration and documentation and simplifying translation from design to implementation. ### 4. Useful and robust interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravikumar B. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** The graphical interface in it. Which make it easier to point out where the problem might have occurred. And also it's integration with the Matlab. Because of its interface it's easy to learn and use the libraries. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The c++ code simulink generates are not very efficient. I always have to refine the code later on. Also, I would like if would be multithreaded. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Giving me more control over inputs easily. 2. Make complex problem easy to represent using blocks. ### 5. the best circuit designer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** the best thing I like about Simulink is the ease of code. the code used to design the programme is almost similar to Matlab and can easily be captured and learned. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** the thing I dislike simulink is UI. The user interface for error identification is not good. we find it difficult to find the error in the code. This should be like Matlab. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem that Simulink is solving is the automated solution of the problem. I just type the code and the end product solution is generated. This benefitted me in solving a lot of assignments ### 6. It's quite a research friendly platform to simulate or verify any theoretical claims. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Waqar A. | Associate Researcher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** It's gives us an assistance to simulate our designed system via mathathical calculation. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Sometimes, I confronted an issue of step sizes. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I design any system theoritically, I use simulink to verfy its stability and the other claims I made. ### 7. Powerful software, expensive and getting a little dated. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink has a suite of powerful analysis tools, especially for controls. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Simulink is very hard to use, everything is a black box (no open-source), and it's way too expensive. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dynamic simulations and analysis ### 8. Simulink is an expensive but useful tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** רפאל . | Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Get fast and reliable results without knowing math equations. cope interface is familiar to engineers. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Scope zoom may be more flexible: gradually changing value and time scale. The list of existing asynchronous motors was beneficial but does not exist in the new version. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am an engineer, and my problems are technical. Simulink simulation permits achieving a result without full physical simulation. ### 9. An amazing block diagram environment for modeling, simulation and analysis. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sameer S D. | Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is the best block diagram environment for modelling, simulation and analysis of various systems. The things that I like about Simulink are as follows: 1) It is very easy to learn and a user-friendly tool. It is easy to set up the required parameters and variables for the simulation. 2) It is integrated with MATLAB, which is also an excellent tool for data analysis. Simulink helps us to visualize the systems that we analyse. MATLAB and Simulink can be used with each other. 3) A huge amount of support material and tutorials are available. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** I find that Simulink is the best available block diagram environment for the analysis of multidomain systems. However, I find some drawbacks which are as follows: 1) My system slows down a lot while using Simulink and MATLAB. 2) There have been some instances where the Simulink crashed down and I had to lose the data. 3) I feel that using Simulink alone is easy, but integrating it with MATLAB seemed difficult. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I would definitely recommend Simulink to all those who are looking for a block diagram environment to carry out simulations and analyses of multidomain systems. It is very easy to use with a lot of support available. It helps a lot in visualizing the systems that are designed. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Simulink tool can be used in many domains of design and analysis. However, I have been using it in the design and analysis of communication systems. There are a lot of models and blocks available in Simulink for this purpose which are really very helpful. The use of blocks to create the systems is of great help in visualising and understanding the concepts. It also has numerous options for plotting and analysis of the graphs. I have used Simulink a lot in my academic and related activities and projects. ### 10. Smooth learning experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Ease of use Easy to learn Great modelling capabilities **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Not a lot of learning resources available **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermal, easy to demonstrate intricate details of the model ### 11. High Fidelity System Simulation and Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William R. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Easy to use interface, expert documentation, detailed examples, real-time simulations, direct conversion to C **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Cost is steep but justified. Could use some more features and tutorials in Simscape **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** If it is your first go at Simulink, definitely utilize OnRamp to familiarize yourself with the environment. Also, join their webinars and classes for more in-depth material for application-specific tasks. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Signal processing and designing robust filters to remove spurious events and aid in signal tracking and acquisition. It helps speed up testing plans by using toolboxes to visualize system response before running through the high fidelity scenario. ### 12. Best tool for engineers for simulation and testing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jatin S. | Graduate Engineering Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink provides a lot of functions to synthesize and simulate input and output characteristics for engineering students. A very important tool for Engineering and Tech students in the fields of Communication, Electrical, and electronics engineering. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The Software is quite difficult to understand and has only specialized functionalities. Also, it is not open source and is quite an expensive making it even more difficult to learn. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have studied many Engineering subjects in my college and simulated the input-output waveforms and studied behavior in Simulink. It is a widely used Industrial tool. ### 13. Best tool for simulating, modelling and analysing multidomain dynamical systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayushi P. | Project Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is a tool used for Model-Based Design. It is a graphical editor for modeling all components of a system. It is used in industrial automation applications. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The complexity of block diagrams used in Simulink can increase drastically as the number of components increases. The license needed to use this is quite expensive. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulink is advantageous in solving non-linear problems, which a transfer function is unable to solve. Initial conditions can also be taken on in Simulink and it can be used for continuous test and verification of embedded systems. ### 14. Matlab Simulink : A review from signal processing perspective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed Mostasim H. | Chairperson, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I like MATLAB Simulink because it is very user-friendly. To visualize a signal, we use Matlab programing language, and sometimes it becomes a bit hard for many people who are not well with programing language. From that sense, MATLAB Simulink needs your inputs, and then your design will give you the output for you to visualize it. It is far better than doing code line-by-line. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** I do not dislike anything. It is a bit tricky to grab the interface for the first time. But there are available sources and Matlab Simulink tutorials to have a good grab over it. So, if anyone faces any problem finding any specific block, they can search it in the Simulink library and can easily find it. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** You may have a python interface to work with signals, but Simulink is a visual representation of the work. If you are comfortable experiencing a signal with your eyes first and then work accordingly, you can use it. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the hardship of writing codes after codes to generate a signal and manipulate it. Matlab makes my life easier when I try to do signal processing works. ### 15. Most varied simulation environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David A. | Virtual Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Comprehensible documentation, great array of toolboxes. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Graph styling can be cumbersome, app can be slow to start up. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Electrical circuits and control system simulations. ### 16. Matlab &simulink **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Simulink?** 1d mathamatical simultions for battery,electronics codind and vehicle dynamics **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Nothing such, training is required at free of cost **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vehicle dynamics simulation, battery modelling and emebeded coder ### 17. It is a Best tool for model based designs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vineet B. | Engineer (5G & DC), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Simulink?** 1- Best-in-class environment to do all the analytics using block diagrams. 2- Visualization, user experience, and tool handling. 3- Another way to develop and simulate your Matlab designs is to develop systems using block diagrams in simulink. 4- More easy to use and user friendly to start working with Matlab. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** 1- It can be better if they provide trial versions of the Simulink system generator tool to connect with vivado tool as it will help with a lot of DSP-related tasks to perform more quickly. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1- Design, Analysis, Simulations. All in a visual way that seems more pleasant to human eyes. ### 18. Matlab Simulink review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I like the plotting function of transport functions and how easy it is to change the function depending on our needs. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The help for various options are not clear and a little bit more information about functions will be helpful. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to solve control system problem's with the Simulink. ### 19. Simulink by MATLAB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faizan A. | Electrical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Its versatility and easy-to-understand GUI and also the fact that it can do a lot in one package of software. That's a really lovely thing to has. It also has a large community which is always helpful. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Sometimes it's a bit slow to open may be for hardware limitations. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** They must have strong hardware to run it **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly my Engineering tasks related to power amd also for hardware control. ### 20. Very effective and simple simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank T. | Executive - IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulation is very effective and very easy to do. The output are mostly close to the actual theortical result. Simple modelling is part is very efficient. Like when you just need to create a simple model and demo it to someone quickly it is very helpful. In some cases solving complex differential question is also very helful. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The resulted output somtimes are very far away from actual system. The system error i get are very unfriendly and is difficult to understand. The multi domain simulation though feasible is not very helpful as it is a bit cumbersome. The tool options are a bit unfriendly and takes a time first time to search the various options. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** It's a great simulation tool but be prepared for some hiccups in the beginning as it will take some time to get used to the interface. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** i try to solve differential equation it in for my part time job. ### 21. Highly capable and user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Model based simulation environment. Huge library with built in blocks that makes model development very easy. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** If running on a pc with average configuration it gets sluggish quite often. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using simulunk to develop complete vehicle model including energy management control startegies for hybrid and electric vehicles, transmission control etc. Over the other simulation tools which i have used in the past doesn't give ability to implement the non-conventional control strategies. Matlab Simulink I am able to test some advanced and still development energy management strategies. ### 22. Easy to use and great interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Feature-rich tool! Packed with different functions however I recommend to take a class to learn how to use them. It is a high-level language for scientific computing that enables basic and complex computational calculations, and also makes 3D and 2D graphical simulation easier. It has extensive use in engineering studies. Furthermore, it integrates numerical analysis and estimation of matrixes where problems are represented equally. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Expensive license and can be intimidating at first. Sometimes the software can become really slow in response time. I don't know if that's an issue with the software or my workstation. I have also encountered issues regarding compatibility with older libraries. Also, when developing some modular applications, MATLAB's performance seems to reduce when compared to other platforms. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I recommend getting formal lessons as using Simulink requires a lot of studying especially the features. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Image processing and data modelling. This is student-friendly and easy to use. I've used it to make GUIs, for control system projects as well as for basic programming exercises. MATLAB has been the primary tool of our academic activities in general and research in particular. It has helped in solving research problems in the area of image processing. Now I am also exploring its use in the area of data science. It is surprisingly useful in this area although I still prefer using Python mainly for that. ### 23. simulink review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Milad K. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** there are no other softwares that can be compared to simulink. I love how simple it is to simulate a dynamic system, control design and even generate c code **What do you dislike about Simulink?** I dont like how simulink handles bus signals there should be an easier way to create and use buses and also create bus signals with messages inside (not only numbers). I also hate to use memory blocks to share data between simulink blocks. I usaually use global variables which has its own problems **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** build and test your model in small steps **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** mostly control design and optimization problems ### 24. Easy to use and Intuitive user interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shashwat J. | Sr. Project Assistant (Tech), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Easy generation of control system architecture. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Based on my current use of Simulink, I haven't found any difficulty. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to model a 3 DOF lumped mass model of the Pantograph system. With Simulink, I am easily able to use state-space representation to carry out position analysis. ### 25. Simulation is very easy with Simulink **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elif S. | Researcher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** The best part of Simulink is that it enables anybody to use block diagrams and simulate any system very easily. I use Simulink in my job. There are a lot of tools that you can use for your search. The simulations are done very quickly. The results are very close to my theoretical results. Simulink is much better than any other simulation software. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Simulink doesn't help me to choose best solver. I always find best solution tool by trial and error. The some solution tools take so much time. It doesn't give any information about the time. Secondly, the compiler error gives so much trouble to me. I spend so much time to analyze and solve the problem. There may be some suggestions for this. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I recomment the other user to learn much about Simulink. There are so many thing that you can imagine. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solve my dynamic system problem with Simulink. My job is to optimize both static and dynamic maps around equilibrium points. There are a lot of tools to do this. I didn't know much about Simulink. However, I have learned by myself. There are a lot of videos on the internet. You can get help them easily. ### 26. Perfect Simulation Software for My Research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cem Y. | Research Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is a wonderfull software to draw your diagram, simulate them and get result. I use Simulink in my research to visualize how the power system behaves. I test my controller very easily. It is very clear how to draw. Block diagrams make complicated systems easy to understand. Second part that I like is that it also allows real-time simulation. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** I always encounter some error when I try to open new version document in an old version Simulink. When I try to open a slx file that my friend sends to me, it gives version error and doesn't open. The solution is to save slx file in an older version. However, it consumes so much time. Simulink also gives errors that nobody can understand easily. I need to search on the internet to solve it. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I recommend everyone who makes simulation of dynamic system to use this software. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Simulink to make simulations regarding my research. I mostly use Control Toolbox. PID tool is very handy. I can add just one block (PID block) to control a system. This makes my job easy. Another benefit that I mention is that I can use Simulink to drive some motors in real time. ### 27. best app to process data! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I like this app as it give me the opportunity to process big amount of data in a fast way without the need to work manually.. It is for sure time saving. I also use it for statistical data analysis. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** sometimes I cannot find the right command for what I need and errors appear on the screen. It would be more user friendly if suggestions were present in the format of :maybe you meant...' **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** time saving, fast data process, also used for graphical purposes ### 28. Good for LTI analysis **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Scope and monitor functions in LTI analysis environment **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Although there are many tools/functions in Matlab, the relation between the Simulink and the tools/options is very limited. The error messages during the simulation is frustrating. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Simulink is a nice training tool for academic purposes. The examples include but not limited to: LTI system, communication system, power system, etc. ### 29. Excellent experience 👍 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is a great tool for simulation and specially for control system design, Embedded Coder, HDL Coder, etc... **What do you dislike about Simulink?** For my I don't have any dislikes for simulink. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** It is a great application you can do whatever you want and put theory into practice easily and powerfully. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Robotics system design and simulation, vibration analysis, programming FPGA using system generator. ### 30. I use Simulink for my research and my homeworks. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink helps me to visualize the system that we want to control or examine. We can see the relation between the subsystem/subblocks. Any large and complex system can be modelled with Simulink such that anyone can see the whole picture and all details at the same time. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Errors are not so clear. It is hard to understand where my mistake is. It would be better if Simulink gives some hint at least to solve basic errors. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I model the system that I want to apply controller. I construct different blocks like state observer, plant, reference system etc. It is great to see all of them in one picture. ### 31. Good and easy and very intuitive programme **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Model based designing which makes it easy to understand complicated problems **What do you dislike about Simulink?** User interface isn’t very intuitive need some work on developing the UI **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Yes good to learn **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Steering and dynamics of vehicles ### 32. Best software for embedded programming **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh Kumar S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Automotive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Easy to program and also has lot of options to choose to customize. I know Matlab programming, but simulink make programming so simple. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The processing time and the memory it occupies is little higher than other programs **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving automotive control for Electronic throttle and control of drive motor through ECUs. I find it handy and flashing the ECU is also pretty simple with this program. ### 33. A graphical programming tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yarkin G. | Research Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Graphical solution while coding, provides great convenience in problem definition and system design **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The fact that it doesn't provide descriptive descriptions of my mistakes and the inability to clearly show the interruptions in the connections between the units made me lose time **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The use of a simple method of identifying complex problems and using graphical identification instead of complex coding languages ​​in the implementation of systems made the name quite easy. ### 34. Excellent software for the simulation of complex control systems **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Winston F. | Project Development Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** It is very intuitive and easy to use. Its graphics allow us to see the low and high in the output processes and make the best decisions. We have already been able to meet our expectations with the size of the desired requirements. Our engineers are very satisfied with that. In addition to having specialized tools for each analysis and approach you want to give to a situation. Simulink has incorporated logical and mathematical operators that we can drag and drop and implement any mathematical circuit. I just wish that software prices go down so that many consumers benefit. Matlab needs to improve this since they have turned this tool into the right hand of any engineer. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Actually, I have no negative point in the time of use with this system, the results seem very good, the only thing I could recommend is to try to reduce the cost of the product. I used to study the static reaction of a boiler for different loads that act on the system. When I update the application and I want to do some tests with old programs, sometimes the development modules do not work with the same results. Sometimes the software needs great computer resources to perform simple tasks and simulations **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Although it is a MATLAB add-on, even Simulink eats a large amount of RAM. It is important to use it with a powerful computer. Their libraries are little confusing and their interface is a little sticky to handle, this should be improved. The best part of Simulink is that we can develop a circuit prototype with ease in this application instead of the hardware implementation all the time. Although you need a lot of money to buy it. I recommend my fellow engineers to use this tool, since simulations and control are very efficient and can perform a large number of variables. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a software 100% recommended for students. This tool is very useful to simulate any electrical and control system. It has been used to connect PC to the CAN network through a variety of compatible CAN interface hardware, send and receive messages using the XCP protocol, filter CAN messages and generate code from CAN blocks Simulink ### 35. SIMULINK is very good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** santo y. | senior graphic designer., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I have used this program and the utility is very good simulations in the control processes that we carry out in the electronic and electrical equipment production industry. Its graphs allow us to see the low and high in the output processes and to make the best decisions, already been able to meet our expectations with the size of the desired requirements, our engineers are very satisfied with it. and have Convert this tool into your right hand. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** Actually I do not have any negative point in the time of use with this system, the results seem very good, the only thing I could recommend is to try to reduce the cost of the product. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I recommend to my fellow engineers that they should use this tool since the simulations and control are very efficient and can perform a large number of variables. the program has been developing for a long time and because of this they have added software that complements it, this makes it better than other programs that are in the market, this makes my results in real time the most satisfactory. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the company, problems with complex equations were solved with great effectiveness and, to be interlaced with matlab, their performance is better seen allowing to see the inter relationships of variables in the control loops and if there are other tools that improve their performance and debug any final result in the processes we are doing. ### 36. A specialized software for the simulation of control systems **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drud E. | Industrial Control Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** It seems an incredible tool, very useful to perform the simulation of control system for multiple areas such as industrial control, which also allows me to graphically order the blocks that I will use in the control loop, being able to appreciate this graphically is very useful because Many programs only allow to express it through equations. It also has a large number of blocks and elements to use and oscilloscopes to be able to appreciate graphically the response of the output depending on the input. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** In a way I do not like that when you have to simulate very complex control loops the program takes a long time to run the simulation, possibly due to computer power failures and the software is not fully optimized **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I recommend this program to all my engineering colleagues who need to test and simulate simple and complex control loops, because this program allows them to test a large number of variations of control loops. In addition, that this tool is linked to MatLab, and allows to use variables and constants previously declared in the MatLab environment. It is also an environment that takes a long time in development and has a large number of tools that other software do not have, in addition to the possibility of integrating certain functions with real-world variable meters, and performing real-time calculations **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has been a very useful and interesting software for the company, because it allows us to simulate the equations of control systems that have already been previously calculated in programs like MatLab. In addition, that of being simple to use and has a large amount of documentation of many of its functions ### 37. Simulink is getting better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink works very reliably. The toolboxes offer a lot of functionality **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The price is very high. It is very difficult to work when I lost the connection to the license server. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Simulink has a lot of toolboxes, has very good documentation and training. However, it has proprietary language and its semantic is not formally defined. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Control systems, navigation systems, AI, airospace systems in general. ### 38. It is a perfect software for the simulation of control systems in engineering **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Douglas G. | Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I like the incredible capabilities that this software has for the simulation of industrial control systems, the ability to find the compensation points in arrears or advance graphically as the case may be. In addition to having specialized tools for each analysis and approach that you want to give to a situation. I also find it quite simple to use in conjunction with Matlab, and to be able to share variables between both tools. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** I do not like that the licenses of this software are so expensive, since small companies can not pay for their use. In addition, there is a lot of piracy of this software and it makes those who really have a license to hesitate if this license is really necessary. Sometimes the software needs great resources of the computer to do tasks and simple simulations **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I can recommend this software, because it is a simple and powerful software to solve complex simulations, although great simulations require large computer resources. It is also easy to use and there is a very large community that helps to solve doubts at any time **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has solved great problems in the company, because it helps us calibrate the control systems of our clients allowing us to provide better services with a visual and intuitive interface ### 39. Great simulation and requirement validation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** It is very easy to make design and simulate it with lots of tools and features. The community is always helpful with the problems and issues. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** It does not have a qualified code generator tool for safety critical applications. Big discrete models take a long time run. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** It is the best choice for mathematical and physical modeling of a system. Simulation tools are powerful and easy to implement. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast development and prototyping with easy simulation. ### 40. Powerful tool for simulation and modelling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hari kishore Reddy S. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I found accurate simulation results. The debugger is fantastic and clear syntax that makes your code readable and fix. The graphical representation using plot graph is very interactive to predict future performance. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** A bit slow language for data analysis. Processing time is longer and high price for liscense. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Easy to learn and powerful tool for modelling. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Iam doing with Thermal management systems(TMS) using simulink for aerospace.It offers a wide range of numerical integration solves that suited for TMS heat transfer problems. ### 41. A must have tool for researchers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sergio A. | Research Assistant, Industrial Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I use MATBLAB Simulink all the days in my work as a research assistant. It is a tool that I could use for develop different scenarios and research areas. In my case, I use the software to develop Hardware-in-the-Loop applications that could be easly deployed in a dSPACE device. Using it, Simulink makes very easy my developments and I can focus my work in add value to my research projects. It is very easy to develop using modules and connections between them. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** One of the thing that I think the product could improve is the compatibility between the different versions of MATLAB. When I upgrade the application and want to do some test with old programms, come times the development modules doesn't work with the same results. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Is a very great tool for research, but the user have to look for the best fit tool depending of the research area or specific application, because using MATLAB in some cases is a little bit expensive or too heavy to run simple applications. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulink makes easy the development of my research applications. ### 42. Very good for fiber optics calculations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mehul S. | Instructional Student Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Simulink?** They way it gives the exact values for different lengths of fibers when connected to different types of modulation. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** It need certain basics to be cleared before using it. Once the basic tools are known it is pretty much easy to design the whole optisystem. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only problem is that it takes a lot of time to start up if you are using the lower version of Windows such as windows 7 or XP or VISTA. if you are using the higher end of Windows it opens up pretty quickly. For students using this software to design their optisystem it gives a perfect value for the output which helps them in their project. ### 43. Incredible Dynamic System Analysis Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** The interface is simple to use and very approachable. Having the ability to simulate a dynamic system such as a DC motor or a suspension system has been incredibly helpful in my coursework, extracurricular activities, projects, and in my professional work. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The price point is very steep for many companies to take advantage of Simulink. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Not a very steep learning curve, but requires a large amount of engineering knowledge to use effectively. Not very useful unless the user wants to analyze dynamic systems. This would be the only use that I can see Simulink being used for. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulink allows engineers to simulate different inputs to a control system or a dynamic system. Engineers can create models to simulate physical systems, giving them the ability to do experiments and tune systems without spending the money to build physical tests. After building the model, performance in a physical test can be compared to that of the simulation, giving engineers the power to save large amounts of money. ### 44. Review for Simulink **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas R. | GNC - Mission Design Lead Engineer, Defense & Space, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is the perfect tool for control system design. It is very intuitive and easy to use. The user interface is very user friendly. It is easy to model the dynamics of any system, tune control algorithms and quickly analyze the stability and performance of the designed systems. Root loci and Nyquist plots are generated automatically and they're very easy to manipulate. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The computations can be pretty slow. If you have long simulations to run, this might not be the best tool to use. There is no easy way to debug your system/code when you encounter a problem, it is hard to introduce breaking points. You also need to buy quite a few toolboxes (controls/aerospace on my end) to get the full experience and it can get pretty expensive very quickly. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am designing control systems for the aerospace industry. Simulink allows me to design, analyze the performance and test my algorithms and systems. It is a good way to start on control system designs and get good results and performance quickly. ### 45. Simulink - The Best mathematical and control system analysis solving software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun D. | Automotive Design Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink is a complete package for control system desingning. The interface is very convinient for beginners since it has got plenty of tutorials and help option in case the user gets confused The best part of simulink is we can solve differentials equation.very quickly. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** At times the process gets slow to generate output. The Cost of the sofware is also in bit expensive side. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** I would only wish the pricing of the software to come down for many consumers to get benefitted. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used simulink across most of my projects such as to create data analysis and comparison I have created even math problems that needed a quick and clear solve, manipulations and graphing of the results obtained. ### 46. Simulink the Protector **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruhan P. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Simulink?** I like this software because this software helps me to simulate any engineering related things. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** As I am an engineering I have no dislikes about this software. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** As this software is very wast and all the features are not used by our company I would as that the price is comparably very very high and the use is somewhat less. Otherwise the software is Best. Thank you **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am an Electrical Enigneer and I am working in the De thok company. Our company has many meets with this software as this software simulates and tells about the working condition of any model we make. I think this software will touch many heights of success as I know uptill now I have seen the only software which simulates. As the software which is very very expensive approximately 15 lakhs. But it is very compatible and frequently used by our company. This software is used by our company to simulate the circuits, as the circuits in real life are very hard to implement as it can have a blast or explosion. So like this it helps us to scope the waves and to multiplex all the equipments and helps us to simulate that the PCB or our products will be easy and compatible to use for the longer and better use. Mainly the Power electronics parts are the best as our company uses that part frequently as the PCBs are direct in connection with the PCBs. So from my side this software is very good and easy to use. ### 47. The future of microcontroller programming **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Thanks to it's visual programming style software can be developed faster than using just code. Also it's easier to maintain it for other people **What do you dislike about Simulink?** You need a lot of money to buy it. Sometimes you must buy an expensive module that you may use only for a small part but without it you can't keep going. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** Evaluate which modules you will need carefully or maybe you will have expensive surprises. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulate the inputs and outputs of a microcontroller ### 48. Good tool for Control system design and Modelling **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun S. | Design Engineer Intern, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Drag and drop option is the best I would say. Also use of built-in libraries for signal processing is a child's play! **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The interface could have been a little better as sometimes it is buggy in a way that when your design gets big it's difficult to make it modular like one can do in LabVIEW. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this tool as a Master's student at New York University to design and simulate a laser based circuit for my Nano-electronics devices course. ### 49. Best for Implementing Continuous Models **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shanu M. | Senior Engineer, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Simulink has in built logical and mathematical operators which we can drag and drop and implement any mathematical circuit. It also has S function blocks in which we can place the code and test it. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** There is nothing to dislike in Simulink. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have implemented rate transition filters,PID controllers and Gauge movement algorithms using matlab and I realized that we can very easily implement continuous algorithm models in Simulink which cannot be done using a flowchart or a statechart. ### 50. Does Great For Prototype Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angad R. | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Simulink?** Versatile and easy to use. Simulation modelling was easy to work on and produced sound results. Because MATLAB and Simulink toolboxes have been trusted by the global science community for over 30 years, researchers and educators have created a large and diverse collection of domain-specific tools written in MATLAB usable across. **What do you dislike about Simulink?** The interface is slightly buggy and not easily navigable. **Recommendations to others considering Simulink:** The learning curve is slightly steep but it's a great product. **What problems is Simulink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Model and simulate biological systems with an intuitive graphical interface. ## Simulink Discussions - [What is Simulink used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simulink-used-for) - [Is Simulink necessary?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-simulink-necessary) - [What is difference between Matlab and Simulink?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-difference-between-matlab-and-simulink) - [How does Simulink work in Matlab?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-simulink-work-in-matlab) - [How to get better understanding of system error?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33643-how-to-get-better-understanding-of-system-error) - 1 upvote - [View Simulink pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/simulink/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-03+08%3A12%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=16d49dff-a9a8-49b3-9213-45a6f2d918ed&secure%5Btoken%5D=0c6ee13dbbeba0c724291d6364038b5b0e587f02241b4a9c98f3959a125c009e&format=llm_user) ## Simulink Integrations - [Arduino IDE](https://www.g2.com/products/arduino-ide/reviews) - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) ## Simulink Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Simulink Alternatives - [Simcenter Amesim](https://www.g2.com/products/simcenter-amesim/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (113 reviews) - [Scilab](https://www.g2.com/products/scilab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (58 reviews) - [GNU Octave](https://www.g2.com/products/gnu-octave/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (54 reviews)