Newsletters - MATLAB Digest

January 2003
Volume 11, Number 1

Technical

Introducing the Model Assistant Tool
Read how the new Model Assistant Tool helped the MathWorks Embedded Targets Team quickly generate an optimized, fixed-point fuel system control software demo for the Embedded Target for Infineon C166® Microcontrollers.

MATLAB Programming Tips
Learn how MATLAB Programming Tips help solve common developer issues raised in forums such as the Usenet newsgroup (comp.soft-sys-matlab) or various MATLAB-focused Web sites.

GUI Building for Test and Measurement Applications
Discover how GUIDE and the Data Acquisition Toolbox together can help you create a custom test and measurement GUI application that acquires and displays data from a PC sound card.

MATLAB Programming Contest Results
Meet the winners of the latest MATLAB programming contest, who, after given the amino acid sequence of a simplified protein, determined a final "optimally folded" configuration.

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Third Party: Genix System for xPC Target from add2 Limited
Learn how add2's Genix System for xPC Target provides a hardware platform for real-time simulation and control applications (for use with xPC Target, MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow®, and Real-Time Workshop®).
www.mathworks.com/products/connections/product_main.html?prod_id=394

Training and Events

Webinar: Statistics and Curve Fitting Toolboxes with MATLAB
February 5, 2002
See how these toolboxes and MATLAB preprocess data, perform exploratory visualizations, provide statistical analysis, model data, and more.

MATLAB based Optimization Techniques Course
San Francisco, CA: March 26, 2003
New York, NY: April 11, 2003
Attend this one-day course, which provides an introduction to optimization in the MATLAB environment, focusing on the functions in the Optimization Toolbox. The course covers a variety of basic problem types and their corresponding optimization functions with emphasis on problem identification, accurate formulation, and use of appropriate methods.

MATLAB Usenet Group Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
The MATLAB Usenet group, comp.soft-sys.matlab (CSSM), celebrated its 10th anniversary this month. CSSM is a collaboration space where thousands of MATLAB users discuss MATLAB-related topics or post questions to the community. In 2002, CSSM featured more than 33,800 posts. Use our online newsreader to communicate with the MATLAB community.

MATLAB Based Books: New Releases
Digital Signal Processing: A MATLAB based Tutorial
By John Leis
Research Studies Press, 2002
ISBN 0-86380-276-1

Automatic Control Systems, 8e
By Benjamin Kuo & Farid Golnaraghi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003
ISBN 0-471-13476-7

To see the full listing of more than 600 books, visit:
www.mathworks.com/books

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