1. Graphic model entry
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Just drop blocks and wire them together. Configure blocks with
a few clicks. Entering Visual ModelQ models is so easy
you'll be up and simulating in no time.
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2. Continuously running models
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Visual ModelQ models keep going, just like real systems.
Tweak a gain; watch what happens. Immediately. Other environments
lumber along in batches...start...wait...change a parameter...wait.
Now you can skip the waiting.
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3. Full-size Scopes

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Visual ModelQ provides 8-channel scopes with features
like auto/normal trigger, auto scaling, delayed trigger, and x
vs. y mode. And it's all controlled with an intuitive panel that
lets you change just about everything while the model keeps running.
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4. Live Scopes
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A complement to full-size scopes,
Live Scopes plot right on your model diagram. They have lots
of features: single shot, AC triggering and coupling, auto scaling.
Live Scopes can be resized, even while your model is running.
And they are configured with their own intuitive control panels.
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5. Hot connections
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Modellers like to iterate. Try this...watch that. Sometimes you
get surprised. That's what hot connections are for. Live Scopes
can hot connect to any wire...any block...any time. The simulation
doesn't miss a step.
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6. Live Constants
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Change parameters while the model keeps running with Live
Constants. Just double click and adjust. Live Constants
have six different adjustment so you can jump a wide span or just
tweak a gain in.
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7. Fast execution
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Visual ModelQ compiles and runs fast. The compilation
process is so fast, it's usually undetectable. And models are
fully net listed to speed execution.
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8. Flexible modeling for digital systems
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Visual ModelQ provides digital control laws, digital filters,
and the ability to run as many sample rates at one time as you
need. Filter gains are recalculated each time the sample rate
is changed...even while the model is running.
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9. FFT-based dynamic signal analyzers
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The frequency domain is important to designers and here, no tool
is more useful than the Bode plot. That's why Visual ModelQ
provides the dynamic signal analyzer that gives Bode plots with
a click.
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10. Dial Meters
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Easy-to-use dial meters provide a continuously updated display
of any signal on your model diagram. You get complete control
of the display including dial size, min and max range, and label
fonts. Choose needle, dial face, and label colors.
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11. On-screen meters
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Drop a meter on the screen and receive continuous updates. Read
root-mean square (RMS), average, or even the magnitude and phase
of a harmonic.
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12. Over 150 preprogrammed blocks
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Visual ModelQ provides more than 150 preprogrammed blocks:
control laws, filters, waveforms, math, digital functions, comparators,
analog switches, Boolean logic, instruments...the list goes on.
For a complete list of blocks, check out the Visual
ModelQ Reference
Manual.
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13. Program blocks
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When standard blocks don't quite do the job, write your own.
Program blocks support a subset of the C programming language
including algebraic and Boolean math, if/else if/else, curly brackets,
and all the standard math functions.
For more detail check out the Visual
ModelQ User's
Manual.
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14. Multiple pages

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With Visual ModelQ, you can split you model into as many
pages as you need. Connecting between pages is easy and you can
title each page to organize your model.
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15. Application documentation
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Visual ModelQ provides permanent space for application-specific
documentation in just about every block. You can inform your colleagues
(or just remind yourself later) why you did what you did.
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Tune the control gains in the model you built in the previous unit.
Investigate how variation in plant gain affects your system.