Improve system level performance
Simulate and improve the dynamic behavior of any multi-disciplinary system using Activate. Activate makes it easy to model, simulate and validate smart systems where users can incorporate functions of sensing, actuation and control coming from diverse components.

Design for robustness
Model based development using Activate provides an efficient approach for establishing a common framework for communication throughout the design process. Perform what-if analyses at the system level to quickly test several designs and investigate the interactions of all components in a system.

Gain functional insight early
Activate empowers users to identify system level problems early in the design process while ensuring that all the design requirements are met. Activate provides its users with a standard set of predefined blocks that can easily be combined to model unique systems. Activate users can easily leverage the large library of Modelica physical components to further describe the plant and the controller.

Build diagrams intuitively
– Drag, drop and connect paradigm to rapidly construct models
– Multiple window configuration with the ability to modify diagrams between windows using the drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste operations
– Support for concurrent loading of multiple models in a session

Hybrid modeling
Model and simulate continuous and discrete dynamic systems.

Multi-disciplinary modeling
Real-world systems are multi-domain in nature. Activate allows users to model and simulate the combined system behavior of real world systems with support for multiple domains such as mechanical, electrical and others.

Hierarchical & Parametric Modeling
– Build hierarchical component-based models of the real world system using signal based and physical modeling libraries.
– Mix signal based and physical modeling blocks in the same model.
– When modeling large or complex systems, easily create super blocks by encapsulating multiple blocks in a diagram into a single block. Super blocks are modular, reusable, can be masked and fundamentally behave like regular blocks allowing users more flexibility.
– Since a model can be hierarchical and parameters can be defined at different levels, Activate provides an all available parameters option, which lets users navigate in a diagram and get a report of all parameters that are known or defined at a current level.
– Generate C-code directly from your model.

Built-in block-based model libraries
Activate includes a large variety of predefined blocks that are available in a library system of palettes. Users can also create their own custom blocks in C or math scripts and save them to new or existing libraries.