{"id":1309,"date":"2012-10-22T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:10:25","slug":"you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2012\/10\/22\/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"You say \u201cs\u022f-d\u0259r\u201d, I say \u201cs\u014dl-d\u0259r\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This week, guest blogger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/12195\">Jason Ghidella<\/a> talks about solder joints.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>I say \u201cs\u014dl-d\u0259r\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>After reading Michael Carone\u2019s  blog post on smart signal routing, I was immediately motivated to talk about solder joints as I think they are the other half of the story when it comes to making models easier to build and work with.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Being from Australia I pronounce solder as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder.wav\">s\u014dl-d\u0259r<\/a>, and that sometimes gets confused and funny looks from my colleagues here at MathWorks.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Jason says (Australian):<\/strong><br>\r\n<embed height=\"20\" width=\"100\" autostart=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder.wav\"><\/embed><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth says (American):<\/strong><br>\r\n<embed height=\"20\" width=\"100\" autostart=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder_american.wav\"><\/embed><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy says (Quebecois \/ Canadian):<\/strong><br>\r\n<embed height=\"20\" width=\"100\" autostart=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder_quebecois.wav\"><\/embed><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>With Release 2012b, the frequency with which we talk about solder joints has skyrocketed exponentially. >I will not go into details, but I am sure everyone who worked with Simulink has had a few fights with solder joints. Let's see how this is improved in R2012b<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Creating and Merging<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\nSolder joints are now created when necessary, and merged when no longer needed.  Here is an example:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder_joints_part1.gif\" alt=\"Solver Joint Creation and Merging\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Moving with Blocks<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If I select two blocks on either side of a solder joint, and move the blocks, the solder joint moves along with the blocks:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder_joints_part2.gif\" alt=\"Solver Joint Moving with Blocks\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Minimum Disturbance<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The minimum disturbance principle used for smart signal routing is preserved for the solder joints as well. If you have a kink in the signal line, the solder joint stays in place. Straighten out the signal line kink, and the solder joint moves with the block. I demonstrate that here:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q3\/solder_joints_part3.gif\" alt=\"Minimum Disturbance\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I hope you appreciate the improvements to solder joints and the new Simulink Editor in R2012b. I also hope you will remember that solder can be pronounced in a couple of very different ways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Let us know what you like about the new Simulink Editor by leaving a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=1309&#comment\">comment here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, guest blogger Jason Ghidella talks about solder joints.\r\n\r\nI say \u201cs\u014dl-d\u0259r\u201d\r\n\r\nAfter reading Michael Carone\u2019s  blog post on smart signal routing, I was immediately motivated to talk about... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2012\/10\/22\/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,11,16],"tags":[292,282,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}