MathWorks has introduced Release 2015a (R2015a) with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink.
With this release, MathWorks introduces an antenna-to-bits wireless design solution. The offering helps wireless and radar system engineers simulate designs that incorporate multiple antennas, smart radio frequency (RF) devices, and advanced receiver algorithms.
New software-defined-radio (SDR) hardware support enables over-the-air testing with LTE and other waveforms.
In addition to new releases of MATLAB and Simulink, R2015a includes four new products:
• Antenna Toolbox for designing, analysing, and visualising antenna elements and antenna arrays
• Robotics System Toolbox for designing and testing algorithms for robotics applications
• Simulink Test for creating test harnesses, authoring complex test sequences, and managing simulation-based tests
• Vision HDL Toolbox for designing image processing, video, and computer vision systems for FPGAs and ASICs
MATLAB Product Family
• MATLAB: Integration of documentation for custom toolboxes into the MATLAB Help Browser
• MATLAB: Scale map reduce algorithms to MATLAB Distributed Computing Server for data-intensive applications
• MATLAB: Support for Arduino Leonardo and other Arduino boards
• MATLAB Compiler: Includes capability to create add-ins for Microsoft Excel desktop applications
• MATLAB Compiler SDK: Extension to MATLAB Compiler for creating C/C++, Java, and .NET shared libraries, as well as a development framework for MATLAB Production Server
• Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox: Classification Learner app for training models and classifying data using supervised machine learning
• Partial Differential Equation Toolbox: 3-D finite element analysis, including geometry import, meshing, PDE solving, and viewing results
Simulink Product Family
• Simulink: In-canvas dials, gauges, and scopes for tuning, testing, and visualising simulations
• Simulink: Fast model update using just-in-time (JIT) compilation for MATLAB Function blocks and Stateflow charts
• Simulink: Hardware Support Package targeting Apple iOS devices for creating apps that run Simulink models and algorithms
• Simulink: Share projects via GitHub, email, or as a packaged custom toolbox
• SimDriveline: Thermal variants for all blocks in the Gears component library
Signal Processing and Communications
• Signal Processing Toolbox: Signal analysis of non-uniformly sampled data; simplified interface and examples, and enhanced signal measurements
• Communications System Toolbox: Connectivity and targeting for Zynq-based SDR, new synchronisation methods for wireless receivers, and an end-to-end QAM link example
• DSP System Toolbox: Low latency audio device I/O, multi rate and tunable filter types, enhanced streaming scopes, and Embedded Coder optimised algorithm library for ARM Cortex-A
• Phased Array System Toolbox: Simplified modeling and estimation for multiple radar targets, array calibration, and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) example
• LTE System Toolbox: Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) simulation in LTE Release 11 and UMTS waveform generation
• Antenna Toolbox: A new product for designing, analysing, and visualising antenna elements and antenna arrays
Robotics
• Robotics System Toolbox: A new product for designing and testing algorithms for robotics applications
Code Generation
• MATLAB Coder: Improved MATLAB Coder app with integrated editor and simplified workflow, and more efficient code for logical indexing
• HDL Coder: Critical path estimation without running synthesis
• Vision HDL Toolbox: A new product for designing image processing, video, and computer vision systems for FPGAs and ASICs
• Simulink Desktop Real-Time: Includes Real-Time Windows Target functionality and adds Mac OS X and Thunderbolt interface support
Verification and Validation
• Simulink Test: A new product for creating test harnesses, authoring complex test sequences, and managing simulation-based tests
• Simulink Verification and Validation: Coverage measurement for C coded S-functions and MATLAB coded System objects
• Simulink Design Verifier: Model Slicing for simplifying and partitioning complex models for debugging and analysis