Bus Assignment

Replace specified bus elements

  • Library:
  • Simulink / Signal Routing

    HDL Coder / Signal Routing

  • Bus Assignment block

Description

The Bus Assignment block assigns the values of an input element to bus elements. Use a Bus Assignment block to change bus element values without adding Bus Selector and Bus Creator blocks that select bus elements and reassemble them into a bus.

Connect the bus to the first input port. To other input ports, connect one or more elements whose values you want to assign to a bus element. Use the Block Parameters dialog box to specify the bus elements to be replaced. The block displays an assignment input port for each such element. For an example of a model that uses a Bus Assignment block, see Replace Values of Bus Elements.

By default, Simulink® repairs broken selections in the Bus Assignment Block Parameters dialog boxes that are due to upstream bus hierarchy changes. Simulink generates a warning to highlight that it modified the model. To prevent Simulink from making these repairs automatically, in the Model Configuration Parameters > Diagnostics > Connectivity pane, set the Repair bus selections diagnostic to Error without repair.

Limitations

When using arrays of buses with a Bus Assignment block, these limitations apply:

  • You can assign or replace a nested bus that is an array of buses. For a bus that is nested inside an array of buses, see Assign into Arrays of Buses.

  • To replace an element in an array of buses, use a Selector block to select the index for the bus element that you want to use with the Bus Assignment block. Then, use that selected bus element with the Bus Assignment block.

Ports

Input

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Input buses can have real or complex values of any data type supported by Simulink, including bus objects, arrays of buses, fixed-point, and enumerated data types. For details about data types, see Simulink, Data Types Supported by Simulink.

The element connected to the assignment port must have the same structure, data type, and sample time as the bus element to which it corresponds. You can use a Rate Transition block to change the sample time of an individual element or elements in a bus, to include the element or bus in a nonvirtual bus.

Data Types: single | double | half | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64 | Boolean | fixed point | enumerated | bus | string
Complex Number Support: Yes

Assignment input ports can accept elements can have real or complex values of any data type supported by Simulink, including bus objects, arrays of buses, fixed-point, and enumerated data types. You cannot use the Bus Assignment block to replace a bus that is nested within an array of buses. For details about data types, see Simulink, Data Types Supported by Simulink.

The Bus Assignment block assigns elements connected to its assignment input ports to specified elements of the bus connected to its bus input port. The block replaces the elements previously assigned to those elements. The change does not affect the composition of the bus; it affects only the values of the elements themselves. Signals not replaced are unaffected by the replacement of other elements.

Data Types: single | double | half | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64 | Boolean | fixed point | enumerated | bus | string
Complex Number Support: Yes

Output

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Bus that includes the assigned bus element values and the values of the bus elements of the input bus that you did not assign values to.

Data Types: single | double | half | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64 | Boolean | fixed point | enumerated | bus | string

Parameters

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List of the bus elements of the input bus. An arrow next to an element name indicates that the input element is a bus. To display the elements in an input bus, click the arrow.

Click any item in the list to select it. To find the source of the selected element, click Find. Simulink opens and highlights the system containing the element source. To move the currently selected element into the adjacent list of elements to be assigned values (see Elements that are being assigned below), click Select. To refresh the display to reflect modifications to the bus connected to the block, click Refresh.

Specify a search term to use for filtering a long list of input elements. Do not enclose the search term in quotation marks. The filter does a partial string search. To access filtering options, including using a regular expression for specifying the search term, click the button on the right of the Filter by name edit box.

Enable the use of MATLAB® regular expressions for filtering element names. For example, entering t$ in the Filter by name edit box displays all elements whose names end with a lowercase t (and their immediate parents). For details, see Regular Expressions.

Dependencies

To access this parameter, click the button on the right of the Filter by name edit box.

By default, the list displays as a tree list of filtered elements, based on the search text in the Filter by name edit box. To use a flat list format that uses dot notation to reflect the hierarchy of buses, select this parameter.

Dependencies

To access this parameter, click the button on the right of the Filter by name edit box

Names of bus elements to be assigned values. This block displays an assignment input port for each bus element in this list. The label of the corresponding input port contains the name of the element. You can order the elements by using the Up, Down, or Remove buttons. Port connectivity is maintained when you change the element order.

If an input bus no longer contains a bus element, three question marks (???) appear before the name of that bus element. The bus has changed since the last time you refreshed the Bus Assignment block input and bus element assignment lists. To address this issue, either modify the bus to include an element of the specified name or remove the name from the list of bus elements designated to be assigned values.

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: OutputSignals
Type: character vector
Values: 'signal1'|'signal2'
Default: none

Block Characteristics

Data Types

Boolean | bus | double | enumerated | fixed point | half | integer | single | string

Direct Feedthrough

yes

Multidimensional Signals

yes

Variable-Size Signals

yes

Zero-Crossing Detection

no

Extended Capabilities

PLC Code Generation
Generate Structured Text code using Simulink® PLC Coder™.

Introduced before R2006a