MathWorks Announces Release 2013b of MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

MathWorks today announced Release 2013b (R2013b) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. The R2013b release provides, among other things, new analysis, design, code generation, and implementation capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink, two new Polyspace products, and updates to 79 other products. Among the novelties are the following:

• Mixed type tabular data and ordered and unordered categorical data

• MATLAB Compiler: Revamped MATLAB Compiler application and automatic download during installation of version-compatible MATLAB Compiler Runtime

• Statistics Toolbox: Linear Mixed-Effects Regression Models

• Database Toolbox: Quick access to ODBC connections through a native ODBC driver

• Instrument Control Toolbox: Communication with integrated circuits using the SPI protocol

• Financial Toolbox: Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) Portfolio Optimization

• Trading Toolbox: Support for Interactive Brokers CQG Integrated Client API and TWS API

• Image Processing Toolbox: GPU acceleration, in combination with PCT, for 22 additional functions, including bwmorph, edge, imresize, and medfilt2

• Mapping Toolbox: Presentation of web maps with basic maps from OpenStreetMap and other sources

• Simulink Editor: Enhancements including transparent subsystem preview, line crossings, and commented blocks

• Simulink System Block: New block to incorporate MATLAB system objects into Simulink models

• Simulink Hardware Connectivity: Connection enhancements over Arduino, including support for Mac OS X, Arduino Ethernet Shield hardware, and Arduino Nano

• Simulink Models: Native Modeling of Single-Precision Designs

• Simscape: Block libraries for modeling thermal fluid systems

• SimPowerSystems: Block libraries based on third generation technology, with full use of Simscape capabilities

• Simulink Verification and Validation: Link to requirements and traceability for MATLAB code

Polyspace Product Family

• Polyspace Code Prover: A new product for testing the absence of runtime errors in software

• Polyspace Bug Finder: A new product to identify software defects using static analysis

System Toolboxes for design in MATLAB and Simulink

• Phased Array System Toolbox: C/C++ code generation support with MATLAB Coder

• Computer Vision System Toolbox: Camera Calibration Application and Features

Code generation and implementation

• HDL Coder and Embedded Coder: C and HDL code generation and workflow support for Xilinx Zynq and Zedboard

• Simulink Coder: Creating Multi-Level Password Protected Simulink Models

• HDL Coder: Support for user-created MATLAB system objects and incremental code generation for model reference blocks

• MATLAB Coder: Support for 64-bit integers, software-in-the-loop (SIL) verification with Embedded Coder, and probability distributions in Statistics Toolbox

• Fixed-Point Designer: Very large integer data type for efficient simulation and generated code for 64-bit processors

• Simulink Code Inspector: Support for Stateflow objects and classic action language

Version R2013b is now available. Find more information at: http://www.mathworks.com/products/new_products/latest_features.html

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