Highlights of R2012a

What's New in Release 2012a

Release 2012a includes new features in MATLAB^®, Simulink^®, and Polyspace^® products, and updates and bug fixes to 77 other products. Subscribers to MathWorks^® Software Maintenance Service can download product updates. Visit the License Center to download products, activate software, and manage your license and user information.

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MATLAB Product Family Highlights

• 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

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Code Generation Products

• HDL Coder™: New product that replaces Simulink HDL Coder and adds HDL code generation directly from MATLAB

• HDL Verifier™: New product that replaces EDA Simulator Link and adds Altera FPGA-in-the-loop support

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

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

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System Toolboxes for Design in MATLAB and Simulink

• 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

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Simulink Product Family Highlights

• Simulink: Run models directly from Simulink on target hardware including LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^® NXT™ and BeagleBoard™

• 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

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R2012a Products with License-Related Changes

Several products have license-related changes in R2012a.

For details, see R2012a Products with License-Related Changes.

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System Requirements

See System Requirements for information about System Requirements changes.

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Summary of Changes to Each Product

See Release Summary for a summary of what has changed for each product for R2012a, including whether the product has new features, bug fixes, and compatibility issues.

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General Release Notes for R2012a

Summary of New Features

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• Signal Processing Toolbox
• Optimization Toolbox
• Statistics Toolbox
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