Scilab

Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling, simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems and (if the corresponding toolbox is installed) symbolic manipulations.

Key facts

Software.name: Scilab
Software.logo: Scilab Logo.png
Software.screenshot: Scilab 6 1.png
Software.caption: Screenshot of Scilab 6.1
Software.developer: Dassault Systèmes
Software.programming language: Scilab, C, C++, Java, Fortran
Software.operating system: BSDs (e.g., FreeBSD), Linux, macOS, Windows
Software.language: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Czech, Polish
Software.genre: Technical computing
Software.license: GPLv2, previously CeCILL

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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. Control System Design & Analysis 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 - Hybrid dynamic systems modeler and simulator Modeling mechanical systems, hydraulic circuits, control systems...

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.scilab.org
Image: Screenshot scilab 3.png

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Commons category: Scilab
software version identifier: 2026.0.1
name in kana: サイラボ
source code repository URL: gitlab.com/scilab/scilab

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Introduction
Syntax
Toolboxes
History
Scilab Cloud App & Scilab Cloud API
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Scilab is one of the two major open-source alternatives to MATLAB, the other one being GNU Octave. Scilab puts less emphasis on syntactic compatibility with MATLAB than Octave does, but it is similar enough that some authors suggest that it is easy to transfer skills between the two systems.