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|Welcome to the spoken tutorial on '''Why Scilab'''.

| In this tutorial, you will come to know some of the capabilities of the Scilab package and benefits of shifting to Scilab.

| Scilab is free and open source, user friendly numerical and computational package,

| used in various streams of Engineering and Science.

| It is available for various operating systems (OS) namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.

| Scilab is to be pronounced with “Sci” as in Scientific and “Lab” as in Laboratory.

|* See and modify the source code.

|* Redistribute and improve the source code.

|* Use the software for any purpose.

|Skills learnt using Scilab, at academic level, are useful later in the industry as usage is free of cost.

|Scilab, together with various toolboxes which are also free, can perform operations like-

|* Matrix operations

|* Control Systems

|* Image and Video Processing  

|* Real-time Control of Hardware using  (Serial Toolbox)

|* Interfacing Data Acquisition Systems/Cards using (HART Toolbox)

|* Simulation with the help of (Xcos-Block Diagram Simulator)

|* Plotting.

|Hardware In Loop i.e. (HIL) Simulation:

|* Hardware-In--Loop differs from the pure real-time simulation by the addition of a real component in the loop.

|* Scilab in combination with 'Single Board Heater System device' is used as a HIL setup for performing control system experiments.

| Many numerical problems can be expressed in a reduced number of code lines, as compared to similar solutions using traditional languages, such as Fortran, C, or C++.

| Scilab like many well known proprietary packages uses “State-of-art” libraries i.e LAPACK for numerical computations.

|There is a very large user community that uses and supports Scilab by contributing a great deal in the form of:

|* Mailing lists,

|* Usenet groups i.e (Internet Discussion forums), and websites.

| For more information about scilab, its toolboxes and mailing lists visit; '''scilab.org''' or  '''scilab.in''' website.

|Some organizations that are using Scilab very successfully are

|* CNES which is French Space Satellite Agency   

|* EQUALIS  

|* Techpassiontech  and

|* IIT Bombay for research and academic purposes.

|Some of the activities for promoting Scilab through NMEICT projects at IIT Bombay are:

|* Lab Migration that is Shifting all computational laboratories to Scilab.

|* Virtual Labs that is Remote Access to the Single Board Heater System.  

| Scilab Effort in India is coordinated through this website scilab.in

|There are some interesting projects. One of them is the Textbook Companion project, that codes worked out examples of standard textbooks using Scilab.

| The link project allows users to link known Scilab documents and  rank them.

|We also help organize Scilab Workshops.

|We have two mailing lists, one for announce and another for discuss.

|We invite your participation in all our activities.

|Let us get back to spoken tutorials.

|These are available at spoken-tutorial.org website.

| We also welcome your participation:

|* On writing the outline for the software.

|* To write the original scripts.

|* To record the spoken tutorial.

|* To translate the script into various Indian Languages.

|* To dub the audio in Indian Languages using the script.

|* To review and give your feedback on all of the above.

|We have funding for all these activities.

| This spoken tutorial: has been created by the Free and Open Source Software in Science and Engineering Education(FOSSEE).

|More information on the FOSSEE project could be obtained from fossee.in or scilab.in website.

|More information, visit: http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

|This is Anuradha Amrutkar from IIT Bombay, signing off.