Frequently Asked Question
What are the best Schematic Editor modeling practices?
Last Updated 2 years ago
If you are publishing your models or educating others on the use of Schematic Editor, you should strive to conform to these best practices:
- Avoid too many execution rates (including. rate transitions)
- Use execution rate inheritance wherever possible
- If possible, the model should be able to run on the smallest device (now HIL402)
- Selected execution rate must support both VHIL and HIL simulation. Avoid too small Ts that causes CIO.
- Avoid long and overlapping schematic lines. Use tags instead.
- Global tags should only be used on the Schematic root, i.e. no global tags in subsystems
- Component names should be hidden if their function is obvious (e.g. sum, product) or the name is unnecessary (e.g. goto and from tags)
- All masked subsystems should have at least one sentence as a description
- Comments should aid understanding of parts of the schematic that are not very intuitive. Using short comments is good in general, but we should be careful about overcrowding.
- Code in the Model Initialization script should have comments
- Code in C functions should have comments
- Once you determine the minimum time step switch from auto to that step to reduce compilation time
- Do not keep coupling stability enabled unless you need it, because it adds to compilation time
