User`s guide

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LTI Properties ....................................... 2-26
GenericProperties ................................... 2-26
Model-SpecificProperties ............................. 2-28
SettingLTIProperties................................ 2-30
AccessingPropertyValuesUsingget .................... 2-31
DirectPropertyReferencing ........................... 2-33
AdditionalInsightintoLTIProperties................... 2-34
SampleTime ..................................... 2-34
InputNamesandOutputNames ..................... 2-36
InputGroupsandOutputGroups .................... 2-37
Model Conversion .................................... 2-42
ExplicitConversion .................................. 2-42
AutomaticConversion ................................ 2-43
CautionAboutModelConversions ...................... 2-43
Time Delays ......................................... 2-45
Supported Functio nality .............................. 2-45
SpecifyingInput/OutputDelays ........................ 2-46
Distillation Column Example . . . . . . . ................. 2-47
SpecifyingDelaysontheInputsorOutputs............... 2-50
InputDelayandOutputDelayProperties............... 2-51
SpecifyingDelaysinDiscrete-TimeModels ............... 2-52
Mapping Discrete-Time Delays to Poles at the Origin . . . . 2-53
RetrievingInformationAboutDelays.................... 2-54
ConversionofModelswithDelaystoStateSpace .......... 2-54
PadéApproximationofTimeDelays..................... 2-55
Simulink Block for LTI Systems ....................... 2-57
References .......................................... 2-59