Summary: A new approach to deadbeat control in multivariable linear time-invariant systems is presented. The approach enables us to find proportional- multiple-derivative output feedback matrices and a piecewise-constant control input vector such that the output vector of the closed-loop system coincides with the given reference vector r(t) for \(t\geq dT\), where r(t) represents the class of vector functions which can be generated in linear time-invariant systems, T is the given sampling period and d is the controllability index of the closed-loop system.