Scilab World Wide Engineering and scientific applications

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">NBSP; Scilab is very similar to the GNU Octave in enabling numerical computing and visualization. Scilab is an interpreter and high-level language used by engineering and scientific applications in the world. Scilab was born in 1994 by the French Inria (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) and ENPC (École nationale des Ponts et chaussées) design. Starting from 2003 Scilab began to be maintained by Scilab Consortium.

SCILAB is a "open source" software developed by scientists from the French National Institute of Information and Automation (INRIA). The word SCILAB comes from the merging of prefix in English "scientific Laboratory" (Scientific Laboratory).

Similar to MATLAB, Scilab is also a kind of scientific engineering calculation software, its data type is rich, can realize various matrix operation and graph display conveniently, can apply in scientific computation, mathematics modelling, signal processing, decision optimization, linear/non-linear control and so on. It also provides toolkits that can meet different engineering and scientific needs, such as SCICOS, Signal processing toolbox, diagrams and Network Toolbox. It can be said that the basic functions such as scientific computing, matrix processing and graphical display, MATLAB can complete the work of Scilab can be achieved.

Because Scilab grammar and Matlab very close, familiar with MATLAB programming people will soon master the use of Scilab. Interestingly, the language conversion function provided by Scilab can automatically translate the program written in MATLAB into Scilab language. Currently, in addition to Windows and NT versions, Scilab has a variety of UNIX or Linux versions, such as SGI MIPS Irix, PC Linux, Sun Sparc stations (Sun Solaris).

As open source software, Scilab source code, user manual and binary executable files are free, published on Inria's website (the Chinese-French laboratory has established its mirror site), you can download directly in our website can also be downloaded. Not only can users freely use the software under the Scilab license condition, but also can modify the source code according to their own needs to make it more suitable for their own needs. For this excellent free software, many people have been paid attention to, discussed and appreciated abroad. At home, the first time in January 2001 Scilab in the promotion of open source software, "Create Alliance website", in less than one months, download the number of more than 300 times.

Scilab includes a large library of mathematical functions that can be augmented using programs written in high-level languages such as C and Fortran. It also has the ability to overload data types and operations. It includes an integrated high-level language, but this language is slightly different from the C language.

There are a number of toolkits in the Scilab that provide D and a-e graphics animation, optimization, statistics, icons and networks, signal processing, hybrid dynamic system simulations and simulations, and many other community-contributing functions.

Scilab can be used on most UNIX systems and can be used on newer Windows operating systems. Like the GNU Octave, Scilab has good documentation. Because it is a European project, you can also find many documents and articles written in languages other than English.

After starting Scilab, a window is displayed so that we can interact with it.