Summary of New Features

Note   For information about potential issues for upgrading from R2009a, see Compatibility Considerations.

This section summarizes the major new features and enhancements introduced in R2009b for the following products:

MATLAB 7.9

Development Environment

• New File Exchange desktop tool, providing direct access to user-contributed files on MATLAB Central

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• Enhanced Plot Selector in the Workspace browser, providing access to additional plot types and customization of plot favorites

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• Enhanced Current Folder browser, providing improved navigation, display, and searching for files

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• Customizable keyboard shortcuts, including consistent defaults for the MATLAB Editor and Command Window

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• Enhanced Help browser, providing more detailed search results with grouping by product and result type

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• Expanded MATLAB file publishing, providing support for PDF as an output file format

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Language and Programming

• Ability to specify unused input and output arguments to a function with the tilde (~) character

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File I/O and External Interfacing

• mmreader function expanded to support Motion JPEG 2000 files

• New Tiff object to write tiled images and a broad set of metadata within TIFF files

• Expanded low-level HDF5 file access to support H5L, H5O, and H5DS interfaces

• Support for MATLAB scalar indexing into Microsoft .NET Framework arrays

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Ability to perform FFTs on vectors larger than 2 GB

• Multithreaded computation support for sort, filter, bsxfun, sparse matrix QR decomposition, gamma functions, and error functions

• Sparse matrix performance improvements for basic math, binary, and relational operators and exponential functions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink 7.4

Component-Based Modeling

• Ability to configure model variants for efficiently managing design alternatives

• Enhanced library link management, making it easier to visualize and restore edited library links

• Model reference protected mode, enabling the sharing of models for simulation without exposing contents (requires Real-Time Workshop)

• Enhanced Simulink Manifest Tools to discover and analyze model variants, protected models, and Simscape files

• Enhanced S-Function Builder that supports bus signals for managing complex signal interfaces

Variable-Size Signals

• New ability to change signal sizes during execution, facilitating modeling of systems with varying environments, resources, and constraints

• Support for variable-size inputs and outputs in over 40 Simulink blocks, including many blocks from the Math Operations library

Data Management

• Enhanced sim command that saves all simulation results to a single object for easier management of simulation results

• New Simulink.saveVars function to save workspace variables to a MATLAB file

• Enhanced simulation restart capability with SimState feature, supporting common model configuration changes

Block Enhancements

• New turnkey PID Controller blocks with expanded simulation capabilities and automated tuning (requires Simulink Control Design)

• New EnumeratedConstant block and enhanced Switch-Case block that support enumerated variables

• Enhanced Relational Operator block that efficiently detects infinite, NaN, or finite signals for floating-point arithmetic

• Enhanced Lookup Table (n-D) block, supporting parameter data types that are different from signal data types

• Reduced parameter memory use for evenly spaced breakpoints in Prelookup and Lookup Table (n-D) blocks

• Enhanced Math Function block that directly supports reciprocal square root, 1/sqrt(u), for efficient computation

Embedded MATLAB

• Ability to create dynamically sized data in Embedded MATLAB Function blocks

• New report for analyzing compilation errors, array sizes, and target hardware compatibility of compiled data types in Embedded MATLAB Function blocks

• Ability to eliminate run-time checks from simulation code for faster simulation of Embedded MATLAB Function blocks and Stateflow charts

Simulation Performance

• Enhanced sim command improves compatibility with parfor-loops

• Enhanced timing resolution of fixed-step simulations by applying integer arithmetic to sample hit computations

• Enhanced Simulink Accelerator mode to support SimState feature for continuing simulations from a saved state

• Expanded Rapid Accelerator mode support for enumerations for root inputs and all fixed-point word lengths for parameters

User Interface Enhancements

• Enhanced Mask Editor that supports tabs and specification of data type, min and max parameters

• New Frequently Used Blocks tab in Library Browser and context menu item for adding commonly used blocks to models

• New Model Advisor Configuration Editor to manage and deploy Model Advisor configurations and custom checks (requires Simulink Verification and Validation)

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Aerospace Blockset 3.4

• New Zonal Harmonic Gravity Model block for implementing zonal harmonic gravity model

• Support for FlightGear 1.9.1

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Aerospace Toolbox 2.4

• New gravityzonal function for implementing zonal harmonic gravity model

• Support for FlightGear 1.9.1

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Bioinformatics Toolbox 3.4

• Expanded next-generation sequencing support, including optimized short-read sequence alignment and the reading and writing of common file formats, such as FASTQ and SFF files

• New objects for storing microarray experimental results and annotations

• New heatmap visualization object with annotation support

• Enhanced visualizations for unrooted phylogenetic trees and clustergrams

• New method for cluster validation of phylogenetic trees

• New function for calculating high-resolution isotopic mass distribution

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Communications Blockset 4.3

• New Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) measurement block that computes Root-Mean-Square, Maximum, and Percentile EVM measurements

• EVM measurement block normalization options, supporting popular communications standards

• New Modulation Error Ratio (MER) measurement block that computes Mean-Square, Minimum, and Percentile MER measurements

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Communications Toolbox 4.4

• Expanded Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) measurement normalization options: average reference signal power, average constellation power, and peak constellation power

• New Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) measurement for characterizing spectral regrowth in systems that use current and future wireless standards

• ACPR measurement that supports user-defined resolution bandwidth, window sidelobe attenuation, and arbitrary measurement filter

• New (bit, symbol, frame) error rate test console that accelerates communications system testing and design trade-off studies

• Option to use Parallel Computing Toolbox with Error Rate Test Console for simulation acceleration without code changes

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Control System Toolbox 8.4

• Support for plant models containing delays or specified as frequency-response data (FRD) in the SISO Design Tool

• New automated PID tuning method in the SISO Design Tool

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Curve Fitting Toolbox 2.1

• Ability to compute the first and second derivatives of a fitted surface

• Ability to compute the volume under a fitted surface

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.15

• Support for National Instruments^® data acquisition devices: USB-9263, USB-9264, WLS-9421, WLS-9472, WLS-9481, ENET-9421, ENET-9472, and ENET-9481

• Support for the following Measurement Computing™ Corporation devices: USB-3101FS, USB-1208HS, USB-1208HS-2AO, and USB-1208HS-4AO

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Datafeed Toolbox 3.4

• Support for retrieving data from Reuters^® Times Series One

• Support for retrieving data from Bloomberg^® via ActiveX

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Econometrics Toolbox 1.2

• Variance-ratio test for random walk

• KPSS stationarity test

• Enhanced Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron unit root tests

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Embedded IDE Link 4.0

• Enhanced Target Preference block with a more responsive user interface

• Support for Analog Devices^™ Blackfin^® 52x family

• Unified Idle Task, Memory Allocate, and Memory Copy blocks across IDEs

• Support for Update 5 of VisualDSP++^® (VisualDSP++ 5.0.5)

• Support for ARM^® processors in Green Hills^® MULTI^® IDE using free-running mode

• Support for Green Hills MULTI 5.0.5 and 5.1.2

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Filter Design HDL Coder 2.5

• Support for RAM-based programmable coefficients for single-rate FIR filters

• Expanded support for complex input data and coefficients, including all IIR SOS filters and FIR filters

• Generation of a Simulink model for cosimulation of generated HDL code

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Filter Design Toolbox 4.6

• Single-rate and multirate fixed-point FIR filter optimization with noise shaping to minimize or constrain coefficient wordlength and maximize stopband attenuation

• Support in fdesign and filterbuilder for parametric equalizer filter designs based on the quality factor or shelving slope parameter

• Support in fdesign and filterbuilder for multirate pulse shaping filters and zero-phase Nyquist equiripple filters

• Pulse shaping filter and comb filter support in the Simulink dspfdesign library

• Support in filterbuilder for peaking and notching IIR comb filters

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Financial Derivatives Toolbox 5.5

• Support for basket options using Monte Carlo methods

• Business/252 day-count convention

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Financial Toolbox 3.7

• Business/252 day-count convention

• Upgrade to bond price and yield functionality

• Upgrade to NYSE holidays

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Fixed-Income Toolbox 1.8

• Business/252 day-count convention

• New functionality for bond futures price, yield, and duration calculations

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Fixed-Point Toolbox 3.0

• New global fimath state that simplifies arithmetic with fi objects

• New sfi and ufi constructors for creating signed and unsigned fi objects

• Fixed-point support for MATLAB conv function

• Extended support for bit-shifting operations, including support for built-in integers

• Fixed-point Embedded MATLAB support for variable-sized signals

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Image Acquisition Toolbox 3.4

• Support for custom get functions for hardware property values using the adaptor kit

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Image Processing Toolbox 6.4

• New blockproc function that supports processing of arbitrarily large images

• Multithreaded implementations of applylut, bwpack, bwunpack, imdilate, imerode, and imreconstruct functions

• Performance improvements for bwdist, imcomplement, imdilate, imerode, imfilter, improfile, and imrotate functions

• Efficient display and navigation of very large NITF-files in the Image Tool

• Expanded hough function that enables specification of arbitrary theta search space, yielding faster results for narrower theta ranges

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Instrument Control Toolbox 2.9

• Enhanced capabilities for interfacing with IVI-COM class compliant drivers

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Mapping Toolbox 3.0

• Ability to retrieve customized geographic data sets and related metadata from Web Map Service (WMS) servers

• Built-in database of prequalified WMS servers and map layers for geographic and text-based search and selection

• New MATLAB objects encapsulating WMS servers, data layers, metadata, and map requests

• Expanded support for geographically referenced raster data

• Expanded support for GSHHS global coastline data, covering versions 1.4 and later

• Performance improvements for vector-to-raster data conversion

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Builder EX 1.2.13 (for Microsoft Excel)

• Redesigned Deployment Tool that facilitates navigation with cancellable progress dialog, fast loading of projects, and ability to add supporting files as folders

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Builder JA 2.0.4 (for Java language)

• Redesigned Deployment Tool that facilitates navigation with cancellable progress dialog, fast loading of projects, and ability to add supporting files as folders

• JRE™ autodetection expanded to include Web application servers for Microsoft^® Windows

• Alternate graphics renderers, Z-buffer and OpenGL

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Builder NE 3.0.2 (for Microsoft .NET Framework)

• Redesigned Deployment Tool that facilitates navigation with cancellable progress dialog, fast loading of projects, and ability to add supporting files as folders

• Enhanced autogenerated documentation, including interface information for developers

• Enhanced reliability and performance of memory management in hosted applications such as ASP.NET and Microsoft Windows services

• Alternate graphics renderers, Z-buffer and OpenGL

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Compiler 4.11

• Redesigned Deployment Tool that facilitates navigation with cancellable progress dialog, fast loading of projects, and ability to add supporting files as folders

• Customizable MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR) startup message for console applications

• MATLAB Memory Shielding available for deployed applications, ensuring efficiently satisfied memory requests

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Distributed Computing Server 4.2

• New interface for accessing and manipulating distributed arrays on a pool of MATLAB workers

• Upgraded algorithms and enhanced visualization support for distributed arrays

• Enhanced MATLAB pool API, allowing dynamic adding or updating of the FileDependencies property while the MATLAB client is connected to a pool of workers

• Support for job templates in Windows^® HPC Server 2008, enabling easier implementation and compliance with cluster-use policies for MATLAB jobs

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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MATLAB Report Generator 3.7

• Enhanced XML comparison report with new layout and controls to step through differences

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Model-Based Calibration Toolbox 3.7

• New wizards to automate creating an optimization, tables, and tradeoffs from a model

• New API for creating and evaluating boundary models for constraining online Design of Experiments (DOE)

• Support for difficult diesel calibration problems by evaluating optimization objectives and constraints over different drive cycles

• Enhanced tools for analyzing and exporting multiobjective optimization results

• Ability to duplicate optimization constraints

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Optimization Toolbox 4.3

• Enhanced fmincon interior-point algorithm recovery from evaluation failures in user-defined objective and constraint functions

• Clearer exit messages with links for more information for fsolve, lsqnonlin, and lsqcurvefit functions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Parallel Computing Toolbox 4.2

• New interface for accessing and manipulating distributed arrays on a pool of MATLAB workers

• Upgraded algorithms and enhanced visualization support for distributed arrays

• Enhanced MATLAB pool API, allowing dynamic adding or updating of the FileDependencies property while the MATLAB client is connected to a pool of workers

• Support for job templates in Windows HPC Server 2008, enabling easier implementation and compliance with cluster-use policies for MATLAB jobs

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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PolySpace Client for C/C++ 7.1, PolySpace Server for C/C++ 7.1

• New Report Generator that presents PolySpace results in PDF, HTML, and other output formats

• Enhanced Viewer that displays results with ToolTips containing the values of variables, operands, function parameters, and return values

• New Graphs (similar to concurrent access graphs) available for all global data

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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PolySpace Client for Ada 5.4, PolySpace Server for Ada 5.4

• Enhanced main-generator that considers the scope of a procedure and variable, improving error detection at the package level

• New Report Generator that presents PolySpace results in PDF, HTML, and other output formats

• New Graphs (similar to concurrent access graphs) available for all global data

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Real-Time Windows Target 3.4

• Support for file I/O using packet and stream I/O blocks

• Support for pulse-width measurement mode for Counter Input block

• Support for Open Watcom 1.8

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Real-Time Workshop 7.4

• Support for variable-size signals

• ASAP2 calibration file support for Model blocks and Two-Dimensional Lookup Table blocks

• Ability of Embedded MATLAB generated code to pass top-level arguments that are both inputs and outputs by reference without a copy

• Optimized Rate Transition block code

• Enhanced user guide to address typical code generation usage and workflows

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder 5.4

• Significantly reduced data copies

• Support for code variants by generating preprocessor directives from Model blocks with design variants

• Support for AUTOSAR client/server communication in the AUTOSAR target

• Expanded software- and processor-in-the-loop (SIL and PIL) code verification support for top model simulation, buses, and global data stores, and a Code Generation Verification API for equivalence testing

• Optimized target function library support for nonscalar operators, data conversion, shift left, and additional math functions

• Enhanced C++ encapsulation interface, providing more control over class definitions

• New modeling patterns documentation for generating popular C code constructs

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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RF Blockset 2.5

• Enhanced physical amplifier and physical mixer blocks, capturing frequency-dependent noise and broadening implementation of nonlinear distortion parameters

• New demo showing how to analyze radar systems that include RF and signal processing subsystems

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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RF Toolbox 2.6

• New ispassive function for testing passivity of S-parameters

• Expanded port-ordering schemes for S-parameter conversion functions, enabling more intuitive analysis of multi-port networks

• Enhanced s2tf function, allowing for calculation of power-wave gain for transfer functions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Robust Control Toolbox 3.4

• New ulinearize command to extract an uncertain linearization (USS model) from Simulink models with uncertain blocks

• New dksyn option to improve robust performance by accounting for real parameter uncertainty (mixed-mu synthesis)

• New ucover command to fit multiple LTI responses with one uncertain system

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Signal Processing Blockset 6.10

• Support for variable sizing of signals for several Signal Processing Blockset blocks

• Enhanced Vorbis Decoder demo dspvorbisdec that illustrates variable sizing of signals

• Enhanced Spectrum Scope block that computes one-sided PSD in addition to two-sided PSD

• Enhanced Spectrum Scope and Periodogram blocks that support mean-square spectrum

• Context-sensitive help for block parameters available product-wide

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Signal Processing Toolbox 6.12

• Embedded MATLAB support for select filter design and window-generation functions

• Enhanced realizemdl method that allows exportation of filter coefficients as variables, enabling tunability of filters in code generation

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SimBiology 3.1

• Performance increase when repeatedly simulating a model with unchanged topology

• Enhanced desktop support for scanning, using Monte Carlo methods

• Support for copy and paste throughout the desktop

• Usability improvements for model building and debugging, including additional support for dynamically updated error indicators, M-lint indicators, and help for user-identified MATLAB code

• New functionality for reporting the status of a parameter fit when using nonlinear mixed effects

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SimElectronics 1.3

• New generic rotary and linear actuator components that allow modeling of any load-speed characteristics

• Improved Servomotor block to allow better modeling of electrical losses

• New abstracted timer component for behavioral modeling of timer chips, such as the NE555

• Additional demos, including a behavioral model of a brushless motor and a model of an ARINC 429 data bus

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SimEvents 3.0

• New support for conducting batch simulations of SimEvents models using the Rapid Simulation target of Real-Time Workshop

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SimHydraulics 1.6

• Ten new blocks in the Directional Valves library that enable additional 4-way and 6-way valve configurations

• New Ball Valve with Conical Seat block in the Flow Control Valves library

• New Variable Head Two-Arm Tank and Variable Head Three-Arm Tank blocks in the Low-Pressure Blocks library

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SimPowerSystems 5.2

• Enhanced Fuel Cell block to better represent cell dynamics

• Graphical user interface and standard cable parameters available for the power_cableparam function

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simscape 3.2

• Local solver support for each Physical Network

• New Pneumatic libraries for simulating pneumatic systems based on ideal gas laws

• Enhanced Simscape language, enabling the definition of intermediate terms in equations

• Full support for Accelerator mode and code generation for referenced models

• Model reference protected mode, enabling sharing of models for simulation without exposing contents (requires Real-Time Workshop)

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink 3D Animation 5.1

• Alternate mode of virtual scene viewer integrated with MATLAB figures as default on all platforms, except Linux

• Recognition of VRML files in MATLAB Current Folder browser, enabling convenient opening, editing, and playing of VRML files

• Enhanced performance of Orbisnap viewer in remote configuration

• New object for creating a new virtual reality figure

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Control Design 3.0

• New GUI for automatic and interactive tuning of the new PID Controller blocks from the Simulink library

• New automated PID tuning method in the Simulink Compensator Design Task pane

• Ability to compute the frequency response of Simulink models using simulation

• Ability to specify the linearization of Simulink blocks as LTI models or Robust Control Toolbox uncertain models

• Support for plant models containing delays in the Simulink Compensator Design Task pane

• New linlft and linlftfold commands to more efficiently compute multiple linearizations of a large model under certain conditions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Design Optimization 1.1

• Support for optimization-based compensator design for plant models that contain delays or are specified as frequency-response data (FRD) in the SISO Design Tool

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Design Verifier 1.5

• New Stateflow and Embedded MATLAB syntax for test and proof objectives, test constraints, and proof assumptions

• Support for enumerated signals and parameters

• Support for integer and fixed-point data types for Lookup Table and Lookup Table (2-D) blocks

• New option to stop simulation on proof violation

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Fixed Point 6.2

• Discrete Transfer Function block and new PID block that intrinsically support fixed-point

• Enhanced Rapid Accelerator mode that supports parameters up to 128 bits

• Enhanced Lookup Table (n-D) block, supporting parameter data types that are different from signal data types

• Reduced memory use for evenly spaced breakpoints in Prelookup and Lookup Table (n-D) blocks

• Integer division option to handle net slopes that are reciprocals of integers, with corresponding Model Advisor check to improve code efficiency

• Enhanced Fixed-Point Advisor workflow

• New diagnostics to detect precision loss in fixed-point constants

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink HDL Coder 1.6

• Generation of a Simulink model for cosimulation of generated HDL code

• Additional Simulink blocks that support HDL code generation, including Radix-2 DIF Streaming FFT, Lookup Table (n-D), Triggered Subsystem, and Discrete FIR block

• Support for complex input data and coefficients in Biquad Filter and Digital Filter blocks

• Support for oversampling clock that runs at integer multiples of Simulink base rate

• Generation of multicycle path constraint information for use with synthesis tools

• HTML Code Generation Report that provides linkage from generated HDL code to requirement documents

• VHDL and Verilog syntax highlighting in MATLAB editor

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Report Generator 3.7

• New System Design Description report from Simulink File menu for detailed documentation of models

• Enhanced XML comparison report with new layout, controls to step through differences, and ability to filter out nonfunctional differences

• Enhanced XML comparison algorithm with reduced memory consumption and improved matching for Simulink blocks and Stateflow objects

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Simulink Verification and Validation 2.6

• Enhanced requirements highlighting and reporting

• New Model Advisor Configuration Editor to manage and deploy Model Advisor configurations and custom checks

• New and enhanced modeling standards checks for IEC 61508 and DO-178B

• New coverage for Simulink Design Verifier blocks: Test Objective, Proof Objective, Proof Assumption, and Test Condition

• New coverage reporting for variable-size signals

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Spreadsheet Link EX 3.1

• Ribbon integration of Excel^® 2007

• Cell context-sensitive menu support

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Stateflow 7.4

• Ability to copy and paste Simulink function-call subsystems between Stateflow and Simulink

• New switch-case design pattern in Pattern Wizard

• Stateflow compilation status added to Simulink status bar progress indicator

• Ability to use more than 254 events in a chart

• Enhanced panning and selection of states and transitions when using Stateflow debugger

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Stateflow Coder 7.4

• Ability to generate switch-case code statements from Stateflow flow graphs and Embedded MATLAB functions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Statistics Toolbox 7.2

• New parallel execution support for the bootstrp, bootci, crossval, and jackknife functions, and the TreeBagger class

• Conversion between tall and wide dataset arrays

• New capability in nlmefit function for monitoring or cancelling calculations

• New ability to read and write SAS^® Transport (.xpt) files

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Symbolic Math Toolbox 5.3

• Support for 64-bit Windows platform

• Enhanced solvers for second-order homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations, improving performance and handling of more equation types

• Support for incomplete Gamma function and exponential integral function in limit functions

• Enhanced simplification routines for hypergeom, meijerG, and bessel special functions

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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SystemTest 2.4

• Ability to view Probability Distribution test vector values before running tests

• Ability to use relative location and naming of generated results and report files

• Ability to stop simulations using test signal end time

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Target Support Package 4.0

• Support for TI C6747 Starter Kit

• Support for TI Piccolo series of processors (C2802x)

• New device driver blocks for Analog Devices BF537 EZ-Kit Lite, including UART and ADC

• New device driver blocks for TI C5510DSK, including UART, ADC, and DAC

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Vehicle Network Toolbox 1.1

• Support for Vector CANCardXLe

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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Video and Image Processing Blockset 2.8

• Expanded From Multimedia File block that supports additional video codecs

• New Template Matching Block with support for several match metrics and region-of-interest processing

• Support for variable sizing of signals for several Video and Image Processing Blockset™ blocks

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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xPC Target 4.2

• Enhanced file scopes that create files with dynamic names

• New .NET API that enables users to create user interfaces within the .NET environment

• Leveraging of multicore processors for background tasks

• Enhanced J1939 library that supports address claiming

• Enhanced UDP Send and Receive blocks that enable sending of variable sized packets

For details, see the product-specific release notes.

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