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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
The Mathworks, Inc., Natick, MA (US);
David B. Andrade, Brookline, MA (US);
Srinath Avadhanula, Sudbury, MA (US);
Yit Phang Khoo, Natick, MA (US);
The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA (US);
Abstract
A model of a state machine may be created in a modeling environment, and the model may be executed over a simulation time. A duration operator may be defined within the model. The duration operator may include as an input argument, a conditional expression that may evaluate to True or False. During execution, the modeling environment may define a plurality of time steps over the course of the model's simulation time. The conditional expression of the duration operator may be evaluated at the time steps. When the conditional expression evaluates to True, the modeling environment may begin tracking elapsed simulation time, and may continue to track elapsed simulation time while the conditional expression remains True. The value of elapsed simulation time may be made available to other portions of the model.