MathWorks today 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, analyzing, and visualizing 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 visualizing simulations
- Simulink: Fast model update using just-in-time (JIT) compilation for MATLAB Function blocks and State flow 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 nonuniformly sampled data; simplified interface and examples, and enhanced signal measurements
- Communications System Toolbox: Connectivity and targeting for Zynq-based SDR, new synchronization methods for wireless receivers, and an end-to-end QAM link example
- DSP System Toolbox: Low latency audio device I/O, multirate and tunable filter types, enhanced streaming scopes, and Embedded Coder optimized 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, analyzing, and visualizing 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
R2015a is available immediately. For more information, see R2015a Release Highlights.
