CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

2 March 2012

Product News

MathWorks Announces Release 2012a of the MATLAB and Simulink

MathWorks announced Release 2012a (R2012a) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. New in this release are the introduction of HDL Coder, which generates HDL code from either MATLAB or Simulink for prototyping and implementation on FPGAs or ASICs, and the launch of HDL Verifier, which replaces EDA Simulator Link and adds Altera FPGA hardware-in-the-loop support. R2012a also updates 77 other products, including Polyspace embedded software verification products.

For MATLAB, R2012a highlights include:

MATLAB: Unified functions for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D numerical integration and improved performance of basic math and interpolation functions

MATLAB Compiler: MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) available for download, simplifying distribution of compiled applications and components

Image Processing Toolbox: Automatic image registration using intensity metric optimization

Statistics Toolbox: Enhanced interface for fitting, prediction, and plotting with linear, generalized linear, and nonlinear regression

System Identification Toolbox: Identification of continuous-time transfer functions

MATLAB Coder: Code generation from user-defined System objects and automated generation of dynamic shared libraries

Computer Vision System Toolbox: Viola-Jones object detection, MSER feature detection, and CAMShift tracking

Communications System Toolbox: USRP radio support, LTE MIMO channel models, and GPU support for LDPC, turbo decoder, and other algorithms

R2012a highlights for Simulink include:

Simulink: Ability to run models directly from Simulink on target hardware including LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and BeagleBoard

Embedded Coder: AUTOSAR 4.0 compatibility, reduced data copies, and linking of code generation reports with Simulink Web views

SimMechanics: Second-generation multibody modeling and simulation technology with new 3-D visualization

Real-Time Windows Target: Real-time execution of models in Windows using Simulink Normal mode

Release 2012a is available immediately and is being provided to users worldwide with current subscriptions to MathWorks Software Maintenance Service for immediate installation. Additional information on R2012a product updates is available at http://www.mathworks.com/products/new_products/latest_features.html

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