Simulation time analysis of MATLAB/Simulink and LabVIEW for control applications

Nowadays advanced software programs are actively used in the field for simulation and modeling. LabVIEW and MATLAB/Simulink are both graphical programming languages, allowing a more efficient method to perform and analyze control systems. Therefore, they are the most commonly used software programs for these purposes. Moreover; in some applications - like hardware in the loop systems, flight simulations etc. - simulation time can be vital to achieve more realistic simulation. Therefore, in addition to programming style, simulation performance can be affected by used platform´s abilities. In this paper both tools´ abilities on some of control applications will be presented with benchmark problems and their performances on simulation of control systems will be analyzed and compared.