MathWorks Updates MATLAB and Simulink

This version, according to the company has updates for speed, user experience and bug fixes.

MathWorks has launched Release 2015b of MATLAB and Simulink. This version, according to the company has updates for speed, user experience and bug fixes. The release also enhances 83 other products that complement both MATLAB and Simulink.

Updates to MATLAB include:

  • New execution engine
  • Graph and directed graph functions for creating, analyzing and visualizing graphs and networks
  • Add-on Explorer for adding community-authored and MathWorks toolboxes, apps, functions and models
  • Hardware support for iOS sensors, Raspberry Pi 2 and BeagleBone Black
Additional enhancements for MATLAB Products:
  • MATLAB Compiler SDK: Deployable components for integration with applications written in Python.
  • Parallel Computing Toolbox: GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerations for functions in Statistics and Machine Learning for probability distributions, descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing
  • Computer Vision System Toolbox: 3D point cloud processing with geometric shape fitting, normal vector estimation and visualization
Added Simulink capabilities:
  • A new user interface (UI) in scopes for viewing and debugging signals with cursors and measurements
  • Referenced projects for creating reusable components and simplifying large modeling projects
  • Multilingual block names, signal names and MATLAB Function comments for use across Simulink, Stateflow and Simulink Coder
The company has also expanded code generation, verification and validation, and signal processing.

For more information, visit MathWorks.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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