MathWorks Announces Release 2013a of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

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MathWorks today announced Release 2013a (R2013a) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. New in this release is the introduction of Fixed-Point Designer, which combines the functionality of Fixed-Point Toolbox and Simulink Fixed Point. Also included are capabilities within Phased Array System Toolbox and SimRF that strengthen wireless and radar communications system design. R2013a also updates 80 other products, including Polyspace embedded software verification products.

For MATLAB, R2013a highlights include:

MATLAB: Unit test framework for the MATLAB language
Financial Instruments Toolbox: Calibration and Monte Carlo simulation for Hull-White, Linear Gaussian and LIBOR market models
Image Processing Toolbox: Image segmentation using active contours, C code generation for 10 functions, and GPU acceleration for 11 functions
Image Acquisition Toolbox: Kinect for Windows sensor support for acquiring images, depth maps, and skeleton data
Statistics Toolbox: Support vector machines (SVMs) for binary classification, PCA algorithms for missing data, and Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit test
Data Acquisition Toolbox: Support Package for Digilent Analog Discovery Design Kit
Vehicle Network Toolbox: XCP support for accessing ECUs on CAN bus
Communications System Toolbox: Sphere Decoder and Constellation Diagram System objects
Computer Vision System Toolbox: Viola-Jones object detection training, FREAK feature extraction, and other new functions
DSP System Toolbox: Spectrum (News - Alert) Analyzer and Logic Analyzer scopes and triggering of time scopes
Phased Array System Toolbox: Polarization support, array tapers, and apps for sensor array analysis, waveform analysis, and radar equation calculation.

R2013a highlights for Simulink include:

Simulink: Simulation Performance Advisor, masking of linked library blocks, and active variant control via logical expressions
SimRF: Circuit Envelope solver for fast simulation and model load time
SimMechanics: Published XML schema for importing models from CAD and other systems
Simulink Design Verifier: Array out-of-bounds checking
Simulink Coder: Reduced data copies for Simulink functions called from Stateflow
Fixed-Point Designer: A new product that combines the functionality of Fixed-Point Toolbox and Simulink Fixed Point
HDL Verifier: HDL testbench generation from MATLAB

Availability:

R2013a is available immediately. For more information, visit Release Highlights.

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About MathWorks

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MathWorks products are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world's universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, MathWorks employs more than 2400 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

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