What's New in Release 2006a

• Converts your MATLAB algorithms into .NET or COM components via a graphical user interface
• Creates .NET assemblies that can be called from C#, VB.NET, or any other Common Language Specification-compliant technology
• Creates COM objects that can be called from Visual Basic, ASP, Microsoft Excel, or any other COM-compliant technology
• Supports conversion between native .NET and COM data types and the MATLAB array data types, using data conversion classes
• Enables unlimited free desktop and Web deployment of independent components

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• Full support for descriptor state-space models with singular E matrix (PID, improper models, and linearized DAEs
• New commands for calculating time-domain performance metrics such as rise time, settling time, and overshoot
• Full support for LSIM and INITIAL simulations in the LTI Viewer
• Simplified, name-based scheme for connecting models with CONNECT, FEEDBACK, SERIES, PARALLEL, and LFT
• True state-space representation of MIMO transfer functions with I/O delays

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• Tools for examining the time-evolution of efficient portfolio allocations
• Support for computing maximum drawdown and expected maximum drawdown
• Tools for performing multivariate normal regression with or without missing data

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• In-process plug-in for Code Composer Studio
• New architecture for communication and data transfer between Code Composer Studio and MATLAB and Simulink, providing up to 50 times faster performance
• Demo versions of RTDX Send and RTDX Receive blocks that let you construct Simulink software test benches to verify and validate DSP code

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• View menu commands that increase and decrease font size and display the message window
• Faster, more memory-efficient report generation

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• New dynamic learning algorithms, including time delay neural networks, nonlinear autoregressive (NARX) networks, layer-recurrent networks, and backpropagation support for arbitrarily connected custom dynamic networks
• New GUI for quickly getting started
• New and enhanced preprocessing and postprocessing functions
• Support for handling data with missing values
• New application demos

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• Block diagram editor for constructing pathways
• Functionality for performing sensitivity analysis
• Functionality for performing parameter estimation
• Ability to run ensemble runs
• Ability to determine conserved moieties

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• Links MATLAB and Simulink to a TASKING environment through high-speed bidirectional links
• Supports Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Renesas, ARM, Freescale, and other microprocessors
• Enables processor-in-the-loop testing for object code verification
• Supports automatic code generation, building, and down- loading to an instruction-set simulator or embedded hardware
• Provides MATLAB APIs to analyze and debug code generated automatically or by hand
• Includes customizable templates for configuring hardware variants, automating MISRA C-code checking, and controlling the build process




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• Modeling environment for building hydraulic and hydromechanical systems as physical networks
• More than 75 hydraulic and mechanical components, including pumps, valves, accumulators, and pipelines
• Foundation library of hydraulic building blocks and fundamental mechanical and mathematical elements
• Customizable library of common hydraulic fluids

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• Asynchronous interrupt scheduling support for C280x and C281x
• New C280x Chip Support Library including the following blocks:C280x Hardware Interrupt, Idle Task, C280x ADC, C280x ePWM, C280x eQEP, C280x eCAN Receive, C280x eCAN Transmit, and From Memory
• Expanded support for C2000 targets, including Spectrum Digital F2808 eZdspDSP board and custom boards based on the C280x and C281x processor families
• Flash memory programming support

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• Asynchronous scheduler support added to most blocks
• Many new blocks and block libraries
• Support for additional processors in the C6000 family
• Compatibility with Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio 3.1
• New and updated demos

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• Native Verilog support

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• Design compensators directly in a Simulink model
• Tune multiloop compensators in a single environment, giving you immediate insight into the effects of coupling between feedback loops
• Tune blocks using block parameters (such as PID gains) or zero-pole-gain representations
• Tune compensators in a control system using all the graphical and automated design tools in the Control System Toolbox and Simulink Response Optimization (both available separately)

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• You can now export Simulink models that include Simulink blocks, blocks from add-on blocksets, Stateflow diagrams, and user-defined blocks as Web views. You can use Web views to view model structure and navigate hierarchy, all without having MathWorks products installed.
• New component capabilities let you generate model loop component reports on libraries and include Model Advisor results in your generated reports.
• User interface and performance enhancements let you view menu commands for increasing and reducing font size and for displaying the message window, and provide faster, more memory-efficient report generation.

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• Perform response optimization within the SISO Design Tool
• Add frequency-domain design requirements to SISO Design Tool plots
• Add time-domain design requirements to LTI Viewer plots (when launched from the SISO Design Tool)
• Use response optimization to design compensators for control systems by:
  • Tuning parameters within compensator blocks
  • Tuning open- and closed-loop systems

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• Support for new Ethernet cards: National Semiconductor DP83815 and 3Com 3C90X series
• The xPC Target kernel is implemented with a multithreaded architecture. All existing xPC Target functionality is still supported.

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