Invalid Trellis Structure: Each element of the 'outputs' matrix (in decimal format) must be between 0 and numOutputSymbols-1.

I have implemented a small Simulink Encode and Decode system using Convolutional Encoder and Viterbi Decoder. Initially it executed perfectly for C and HDL code generation. But after some time,when try to update the diagram it throw an error above. I am not sure why this error occurs. i have included a trellis structure included from one of Mathworks example.

I have attached simulink diagram. It would be a great help to get an idea why this error occurs.

Edit 1 I think i found out why this error occurs. Whenever, i add Matlab folders and subfolders to the path in Workspace and update the model it throws above error. But when i remove folders from path and update model it compiles fine. I don't understand the reason behind this whether it relates to compilation procedure or some bug in R2016a!!?

[Walter Roberson]

I loaded in the above .zip and ran the model. The only thing I had to change was in the Bit_generator subsystem, the output of the second block had to be changed to Boolean instead of uint8 .

[suneel kumar Gaddam]

Yes i forgot to change the data type while adding the model here.The Model which i applied seemed to work fine after a system restart. I still don't understand what actually provoked intitally the error.

Answer 1

[Bharath Venkataraman]

Which version of MATLAB are you using? I was able to generate HDL code for the Convolutional encoder and Viterbi decoder subsystems in the model with no errors once I converted the input to the convolutional encoder to Boolean using the data type conversion block.

[suneel kumar Gaddam]

I am using R2016a on windows with Embedded support package installed. As i said it initially worked fine and i was able to convert both of the Subsystems. But later i was not able to convert and i didn't changed anything in connections or data types and i think there is no need for a data conversion block as the compare to constant can give us a boolean output.

[suneel kumar Gaddam]

It seems to be working again after a system reboot.