MATRIXx Basics

The MATRIXx Basics course prepares you to use the MATRIXx Product Family. The student will learn how to build and analyze models, run simulations, compare simulation results, and generate and execute AutoCode in non real-time. The course includes both lecture and hands-on exercises. This is a very practical, results-oriented course, which will provide knowledge and skills that can be applied immediately.

Audience: 

• New MATRIXx users

• Users and technical managers evaluating MATRIXx in purchasing decisions

After attending this course you will be able to: 

• Use the following MATRIXX products – Xmath, SystemBuild, Autocode (non real time), and DocumenIt

• Build and analyze models, run simulations, and compare simulation results

• Generate and execute AutoCode in non-real-time

• Use the intermediate features of Xmath and SystemBuild

• Use the DocumentIt editor to generate an ASCII document

Prerequisites: 

• Experience with Microsoft Windows and a scientific or engineering background

• Programming experience is helpful

NI Products Used During the Course:

• MATRIXx Version 7.0
  - Xmath
  - SystemBuild
  - AutoCode
  - DocumentIt

Suggested Next Courses:

• MATRIXx Advanced

You will cover:

Day 1
Beginning Xmath

• Overview of MATRIXx product family

• Using Xmath command tool at the basic level and starting and stopping the tool

• Using Xmath help

• Organizing the Xmath workspace with partitions and variables

• Creating and using different objects

• Creating, viewing, saving, and loading variables

• Xmath built-in functions and commands Beginning SystemBuild

• Using the SystemBuild Editor and Simulator at a basic level

• Using the built-in block libraries to build models

• Assigning timing attributes to models

• Parameterizing models

Running simulations

• Saving and loading models

Day 2
Fundamentals of Xmath

• Creating more detail on plots and using mtxplt

• Using MathScript to create functions, commands, macros, aliases, and to automate simulations

• Using startup files to customize the Xmath environment

• Using the MathScript debugger Fundamentals of SystemBuild

• Types of SuperBlocks

• Creating and navigating model hierarchies

• Using the Interactive Simulator

• Using the Catalog Browser to manage (Copy/Rename/Delete) models

• Changing timing attributes of dynamic models

• Using Xmath partitions to scope model parameters

• Recognizing and resolving algebraic loops

Day 3
Autocode

• Using the SystemBuild editor to generate code

• Creating and run standalone simulations with the code and link the code back to the SystemBuild simulator to test individual procedures

• Understanding how the SystemBuild model is used to define signal data-types, global variables, procedures and subsystems Advanced SystemBuild

• Using more advance features of SystemBuild

• Using the different discrete SuperBlocks

• Timing considerations with discrete blocks DocumentIt

• Using the SystemBuild editor to generate an ASCII document

• Understanding the document generation process, and the different fields in the SystemBuild model where information is entered

• Understanding the methods of modifying the generated document

   

This course is available on the following dates in: 2008
Pittsburgh	Cleveland	Philadelphia
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Courses are regularly offered throughout the year. Customized courses and alternative training schedules are available either on-site or at our permanent facility. Course descriptions and current course schedules are available upon request.

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