The two interfaces

The Simcenter Amesim-Simulink and Simulink-Simcenter Amesim interfaces makes it possible to perform simulations with a combination of Simcenter Amesim and Simulink models. Since there are two software packages involved, the interfaces provide two main options: importing the Simcenter Amesim model into Simulink, or importing the Simulink model into Simcenter Amesim.

With the Simcenter Amesim-Simulink interface the user has the choice of these two methods. In addition to these two methods, it is also possible to export the Simcenter Amesim solver (with the Simcenter Amesim model) to Simulink. This is sometimes called co-simulation since we use the solvers from the two software packages, and they perform the simulation together.

In this manual we first describe the process of importing the Simcenter Amesim model into Simulink, with or without the solver. After this we describe the process of importing the Simulink model with its fixed-step solver (co-simulation) into Simcenter Amesim.