Arduino Support from Simulink

Capabilities and Features

With Simulink^® Support Package for Arduino^® Hardware, you can use Simulink to develop and simulate algorithms that run standalone on your Arduino. The package includes:

• Hardware plugin detection for Arduino boards in MATLAB and setup screens for initial Arduino board configuration
• UDP and TCP/IP blocks in the Ethernet shield library and Wi-Fi library to let your Arduino hardware communicate with LEGO MINDSTORMS^® EV3, Raspberry Pi™, and mobile devices (Android™ and iOS) over Ethernet or Wi-Fi
• Simulink blocks for configuring and accessing Arduino inputs and outputs
• Write and read blocks to communicate directly with a ThingSpeak™ channel from your algorithms running on an Arduino board
• Access to Arduino WiFi Shield, onboard Wi-Fi chip on Arduino MKR1000, ESP8266 modules, and Ethernet Shield
• External mode for interactive parameter tuning and signal monitoring as your algorithm runs on the device (not available on some boards – see list below). Dashboard blocks and Simulation Data Inspector are supported with XCP-based External mode as of R2019a.
• Model deployment for standalone operation on Arduino boards
• Simulink I/O access to peripherals connected to Arduino boards before deploying models to hardware, including digital inputs and outputs, I2C read and write, SPI write/read, analog inputs, and pulse width modulated outputs
• External Interrupt blocks lets you trigger downstream Function-Call subsystems
• Documentation that guides you on how to create a device driver block to access specific features of your hardware board
• Simulink Coder™ lets you access the C code generated from Simulink and trace it back to the original model.
• Embedded Coder^® lets you generate optimized code, use code replacement libraries, and perform software-in-the-loop and processor-in-the-loop verification.

Learn more about Arduino programming with MATLAB and Simulink.

Supported Hardware