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Scilab is a free and open source software for engineers & scientists, with a long history (first release in 1994) and a growing community (100 000 downloads every months worldwide).

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The Scilab Team inheritated the expertise of the french research institute INRIA, famous for computer sciences and automation.

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What is Scilab ?

Scilab is free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.

Scilab is released as open source under the GPL License, and is available for download free of charge. Scilab is available under GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 (see system requirements).

What does Scilab do ?

Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions. It has a high level programming language allowing access to advanced data structures, 2-D and 3-D graphical functions.

A large number of functionalities is included in Scilab:

Maths & Simulation
For usual engineering and science applications including mathematical operations and data analysis.
2-D & 3-D Visualization
Graphics functions to visualize, annotate and export data and many ways to create and customize various types of plots and charts.
Optimization
Algorithms to solve constrained and unconstrained continuous and discrete optimization problems.
Statistics
Tools to perform data analysis and modeling
Control Systems
Standard algorithms and tools for control system study
Signal Processing
Visualize, analyze and filter signals in time and frequency domains.
Application Development
Increase Scilab native functionalities and manage data exchanges with external tools.
Xcos - Dynamic systems modeling
Modeling mechanical systems, hydraulic circuits, control systems...

Scilab as a platform

Thanks to its ability to interconnect with third-party technologies and applications, Scilab can also act as a unique platform to bring together codes written in different programming languages in a single, unified language, thus facilitating their distribution, their back-up and use.