Simulink Alternatives

    Simulink is described as '® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems'. There are more than 25 alternatives to Simulink for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, the Web and Chrome OS. The best alternative is Circuit Simulator, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Simulink are Xcos (Free, Open Source), OpenModelica (Free, Open Source), GNU Radio (Free, Open Source) and Minsky (Free, Open Source).

    The list of alternatives was last updated Mar 8, 2021
    Simulink info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Simulink
    • 27 alternatives

    • Circuit Simulator

      Animated electronic circuit simulator using ideal components to visualize voltage and current. View 45 alternatives to Circuit Simulator
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      Circuit Simulator vs Simulink
      pros, cons and recent comments
      Not all applications can be modeled with circuits
      Negative comment • about 2 years ago

    • Xcos

      Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated. View 90 alternatives to Xcos
      Almost everyone thinks Xcos is a great alternative to Simulink.
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      • OpenModelica

        OpenModelica – A Free Modelica Environment! View 39 alternatives to OpenModelica
        Most users think OpenModelica is a great alternative to Simulink.
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      • GNU Radio

        GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. View 14 alternatives to GNU Radio
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        • Minsky

          Minsky enables the simulation of models (particularly from economics) defined in terms of coupled ordinary differential equations. View 6 alternatives to Minsky
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          • BrainBox

            Physical things are great. Hardware companies like Apple, Arduino, etc are disrupting our lives in a big way. View 21 alternatives to BrainBox
            • Free • Open Source
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          • BMS

            Block model simulator for python BMS is a block model time simulator: it computes time values of time functions (called variables) linked by blocks which represent equations and behaviors between them. View 7 alternatives to BMS
            • Free • Open Source
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            • Altair Activate

              Altair Activate software is an open & flexible tool for rapidly modeling and simulating products as multi-disciplinary systems in the form of 1D models (expressed as signal-based or physical block diagrams), optionally coupled to 3D models. View 4 alternatives to Altair Activate
              • Free • Proprietary
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              Altair Activate vs Simulink
              pros, cons and recent comments
              Altair Activate is able to import .mdl and .slx files developed at simulink, this feature help to migrate from simulink to Activate. For now I believe this is the first software able to do that.
              Positive comment • almost 2 years ago

              rodrigorpgsc Is able to import simulink models
              Positive comment • almost 2 years ago

            • VisSim

              VisSim™ is a visual language for modeling and simulating nonlinear dynamic systems. With 9 integration methods, 4 optimization methods and over 200 vector and scalar block functions. View 19 alternatives to VisSim
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              • Caedium

                Caedium (formerly SymLab) and its add-ons combine to form an easy-to-use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software system to help you assess the performance of your 3D models. View 6 alternatives to Caedium
                • Freemium • Proprietary
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