TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter is an introduction to the Signal Attributes library. This is the eleventh library in the Simulink group of libraries and consists of two sub-libraries, the Signal Attribute Manipulation Sub-Library, and the Signal Attribute Detection Sub-Library blocks shown below. We will describe the function of each block included in this library and we will perform simulation examples to illustrate their application.
The Signal Attribute Manipulation Sub-Library contains the blocks described in Subsections 12.1.1 through 12.1.10 below.
The Data Type Conversion block converts an input signal of any Simulink data type to the data type and scaling specified by the block's Output data type mode, Output data type, and / or Output scaling parameters. The input can be any real- or complex-valued signal. If the input is real, the output is real, and if the input is complex, the output is complex. When using this block, we must specify the data type and / or scaling for the conversion. The data types and the Data Type Conversion block are described in Section 2.17, Chapter 2, Page 2 29.
The Data Type Duplicate block is used to ascertain that all inputs have the same data type. We use the Data Type Duplicate block to check for consistency of data types among blocks. If all signals do not have the same data type, the block returns an error...
