MatLab and Simulink Release 2010a

The MathWorks has announced Release 2010a (R2010a) of its MatLab and Simulink product families. Key in this release are streaming capabilities for signal processing and video processing in MatLab, nonlinear solvers for standard and large-scale optimisation and expanded Simulink support for large teams designing complex systems. R2010a also introduces Simulink PLC Coder, that helps industrial control system engineers generate IEC 61131 structured text. This release updates 83 other products, including PolySpace code verification products.

The Signal Processing Blockset and Video and Image Processing Blockset include new system objects for stream processing in MatLab. Supporting more than 140 algorithms, system objects use less memory, improve the handling of lengthy signal and video data streams and simplify the development of streaming algorithms.

In the Symbolic Math Toolbox, an interface with Simscape automatically generates Simscape language equations for physical modelling.

The Global Optimisation Toolbox and Optimisation Toolbox now provide nonlinear solvers for more complex and realistic problems and the ability to use parallel computing to accelerate time-to-solution.

SimBiology now provides stochastic approximation expectation maximisation (SAEM), dosing schedules support, and performance enhancements for improved data fitting and modelling for pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD).

R2010a includes improved multicore support and performance enhancements for more than 50 functions in Image Processing Toolbox and additional multithreaded math functions in MatLab. There are also enhancements to file sharing, path management and the desktop in MATLAB.