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SLICOT Library, a product of the Working Group on Software (WGS) and The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG Ltd.), provides general purpose computational routines for basic system analysis and design tasks. Special emphasis in SLICOT is on the numerical reliability of implemented algorithms, the numerical robustness of routines, and the use of rigorous implementation and documentation standards. Since October 1996, I am the SLICOT librarian. SLICOT components are used in the Control System Toolbox of MATLAB 7, Release 14, distributed in June 2004.
In 1996, NAG and WGS agreed to turn SLICOT into copyrighted freeware. This involved the conversion of all routines to use the LAPACK and BLAS as basic supporting libraries for linear algebra and elementary vector and matrix computations. I was in charge to perform this conversion. The first new release, Release 3, was issued in 1997 and contained improved versions of the previous releases (Release 1, 1991, and Release 2, 1993). SLICOT Release 4, issued in 1999, contained many new additions, but the library continued to evolve. New routines, benchmark examples, user-friendly interfaces, etc., were and are still added. The SLICOT library is freely available for non-commercial applications and can be retrieved as compressed tar or zip files via the NICONET homepage, using the hyperlink SLICOT software.
These activities are part of the European Numerics in Control Network (NICONET), and, since 2001, they are coordinated by the NICONET International Society.