Get Started with Simulink Variant Manager

Simulink^® Variant Manager™ enables management of variations in components, parameters, and interfaces within models and architectures. You can manage variant-specific artifacts, reuse common assets, and define system-wide constraints to ensure consistency during product development. You can automatically generate or manually configure variant configurations for simulation. Simulink Variant Manager helps you identify dependencies, coverage gaps, and inconsistencies across variant configurations.

For deployment and collaboration with customers or suppliers, you can generate standalone models that include only the selected variant configurations. Also, you can review these models with a comparison report (with Simulink Report Generator™). You can use variant configurations for testing and validation (with Simulink Test™).

Support for the AUTOSAR standard is available (with AUTOSAR Blockset).

Tutorials

Simulink Variant Manager Basics

Manage variants in Simulink models.

• STEP 1: Open Variant Manager and Visualize Variant Elements
• STEP 2: Define Variant Configurations for the Model
• STEP 3: Save Variant Configurations
• STEP 4: Define Variant Constraints for the Model
• STEP 5: Find Variant Configurations for Referenced Components
• STEP 6: Define Top-Level Configuration Using Referenced Configurations
• STEP 7: Define Constraint Using Referenced Configurations
• STEP 8: Define Variant Configurations Without Associating Them to Model
• STEP 9: Automatically Generate Variant Configurations for Model
• STEP 10: Simulate Variant Models Using Variant Configurations
• STEP 11: Test Variant Models Using Variant Configurations

Featured Examples

Manage, Configure, Reduce, and Analyze System Variants with Simulink Variant Manager

Gives an overview of the capabilities of the Simulink Variant Manager app in Simulink.

• Open Model