Scilab
A Free Scientific
Software Package
Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical
computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and
scientific applications. Developed since 1990 by
researchers from
INRIA and
ENPC, it is now maintained and developed by
Scilab
Consortium since its creation in May 2003.
Distributed freely and open
source (see the
license)
via the Internet since 1994, Scilab is currently being used in educational and
industrial environments around the world.
Scilab includes hundreds of
mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively programs from
various languages (C, Fortran...). It has sophisticated data structures
(including lists, polynomials, rational functions, linear systems...), an
interpreter and a high level programming language.
Scilab has been
designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and
operations on these data types by using overloading.
A number of
toolboxes are available with the system:
- 2-D and 3-D graphics, animation
- Linear algebra, sparse matrices
- Polynomials and rational functions
- Simulation: ODE solver and DAE solver
- Scicos: a hybrid dynamic systems
modeler and simulator
- Classic and robust control, LMI optimization
- Differentiable and non-differentiable optimization
- Signal processing
- Metanet: graphs and networks
- Parallel Scilab using PVM
- Statistics
- Interface with Computer Algebra (Maple, MuPAD)
- Interface with Tck/Tk
- And a large number of contributions for various domains.
Scilab has been built using a number of external libraries.
Scilab works on most Unix systems including GNU/Linux and on Windows
9X/NT/2000/XP. It comes with source code, on-line help and English user manuals.
Binary versions are available.
To be informed about Scilab events you can register to Sciclub
For
more information about Scilab, send an e-mail to Doctor Scilab: Scilab@inria.fr
The newsgroup comp.soft-sys.math.scilab is a
good place to exchange experience, ideas and Scilab programs.
All the
messages of the newsgroup are archived here.
For suggestions about this Web server, send an e-mail to Scilab@inria.fr
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Scilab is a trademark of INRIA.
Other product or brand names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.