In this chapter we learned what benefits Simulink brings in and where Simulink has become a de-facto standard and why. We explained how the software development process is simplified using Simulink and cases where Simulink is not the right solution. After reading this chapter, you should be able to decide whether Simulink can be used for your projects.

In the following chapters, we'll take a learn-by-doing approach where we'll go through the whole software development process while developing and testing a cruise controller model for a real-world car.