Simulink Blocks Distribution

Since R2022b

Metric ID

slcomp.BlocksDistribution

Description

Use this metric to determine the distribution of the number of Simulink^® blocks, excluding Inport, Outport, and Goto blocks, in each layer of the model hierarchy for a unit or component.

Supported Artifacts

You can collect this metric for:

To control what the dashboard classifies as a unit or component, see Categorize Models in Hierarchy as Components or Units.

Computation Details

The metric:

Does not include Inport, Outport, and Goto blocks in the block count.
Counts the blocks, excluding Inport, Outport, and Goto blocks, in each variant.
Does not count blocks that are commented out.

Collection

To collect data for this metric:

In the Model Maintainability Dashboard, point to the Simulink Architecture section and click the Run metrics for widget icon. See the results in the Blocks row and Distribution column.
Use getMetrics with the metric identifier slcomp.BlocksDistribution.

Results

For this metric, instances of metric.Result return Value as a distribution structure that contains these fields:

BinCounts — The number of artifacts in each bin, returned as a vector.
BinEdges — Bin edges for the number of blocks, excluding Inport, Outport, and Goto blocks, in each layer of a unit or component, returned as a vector. BinEdges(1) is the left edge of the first bin and BinEdges(end) is the right edge of the last bin. The length of BinEdges is one more than the length of BinCounts.

The bins in this metric result correspond to the bins in the Blocks row and Distribution column in the Simulink Architecture section.