R2012a Release Highlights for the MATLAB
and Simulink Product Families

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

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

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

Simulink Product Family Highlights

• Simulink: Ability to 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

Release Notes by Product

Indicates major update