MASCOT: a specification and cosimulation method integrating data and control flow

We integrate data and control flow at the system specification level, using the two specialized and well established languages Matlab and SDL. For this we provide a modeling technique, which integrates the timing concepts and allows synchronization of vector-based computation with event based state transition. The technique is supported by a library of wrappers and communication functions, which has been implemented to make cosimulation easy to use and almost transparent to the user. A methodology formulates the rules to use the modeling technique, to partition the system, and to select communication modes. A complex industrial example illustrates the modeling technique and the methodology, and shows the efficiency of the Matlab-SDL cosimulation