R2020b - Updates to the MATLAB and Simulink product families

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Release Highlights

New Products

Deep Learning HDL Toolbox - Prototype and deploy deep learning networks on FPGAs and SoCs
Lidar Toolbox - Design, analyze, and test lidar processing systems
RoadRunner Scene Builder - Automatically generate 3D road models from HD maps
Simulink Online - Use Simulink through your web browser
UAV Toolbox - Design, simulate, and deploy UAV applications

Major Updates

MATLAB Graphics - Use new bubble and swarm charts, and customize charts with new options for titles, labels, and axis limits.
MATLAB App Building - Diff and merge App Designer apps, and add custom figure icons and custom components to your MATLAB apps.
GPU Coder - Simulate and deploy Simulink models to NVIDIA^® GPUs
Mapping Toolbox - Build 3D map displays with basemaps and convert geographic data between coordinate reference systems
Model Predictive Control Toolbox - Simulate and generate code for MPC controllers with FORCES PRO solvers developed by Embotech
Optimization Toolbox - Solve optimization problems using a Live Editor task. Apply automatic differentiation to nonlinear expressions
RF Blockset - Model transceiver antennas, including frequency-dependent impedance and far-field radiation pattern
RF Toolbox - Design RF transceivers using nonlinear harmonic balance analysis in the RF Budget Analyzer app
Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox - Design, simulate, and test multisensor tracking and positioning systems in autonomous and surveillance applications
SerDes Toolbox - Model jitter and cross-talk in time-domain simulation and statistical analysis of SerDes systems
SimBiology - Build models interactively in a single consolidated view using SimBiology Model Builder
Simulink Check - Assess completeness of requirements-based testing activities for ISO 26262 or DO-178C with testing dashboard
Simulink Real-Time - Discover new 64-bit RTOS, explorer, graphical instrumentation, and signal logging
Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox - Use AutoML for classification and regression, LIME interpretability, and native Simulink blocks for SVM prediction

Resources

Release Details by Product

MATLAB Product Family

MATLAB

Visualize data with new bubble and swarm charts and customize charts with new options for titles, labels and axis limits.
Diff and merge App Designer apps using the MATLAB Comparison Tool and add custom figure icons and custom components to your MATLAB apps.
Optimize Live Editor Task: Interactively create and solve optimization problems
readstruct and writestruct Functions: Read and write structured data in XML files
Function Argument Validation: Use additional validators including mustBeA, mustBeText, and mustBeVector
Python: Start and stop a Python interpreter from a MATLAB session

Financial Toolbox

Backtesting Workflow: Define investment strategies, run backtests, and summarize results

MATLAB Compiler

Docker support: Use compiler.package.docker to package a standalone application and selective MATLAB Runtime as docker images (Linux OS only)

Optimization Toolbox

Optimize Live Editor Task: Interactively create and solve optimization problems
Automatic Differentiation: Solve problems faster and more accurately using automatically computed gradients of objective and constraint functions

Database Toolbox

Native Interfaces: Support added for MySQL^® and PostgreSQL^® databases

Model Predictive Control Toolbox

Integration with FORCES PRO: Simulate and generate code for MPC controllers with FORCES PRO solvers developed by Embotech AG

Partial Differential Equation Toolbox

3-D Geometry Creation: Extrude a 2-D geometry into a 3-D geometry

Control System Toolbox

Sparse State-Space Models: Create, combine, and analyze large-scale linear models

SimBiology

Interactively build models in a single consolidated view using SimBiology Model Builder; and explore the effects of variations in model quantities on model response by computing Sobol indices and by performing multiparametric global sensitivity analysis

RF and Mixed-Signal

Antenna Toolbox

Gerber File Import: Describe arbitrary geometry of PCB antennas for design and analysis using pcbStack

RF Blockset

Antenna Block: Model antennas with frequency dependent impedance and radiation patterns

RF Toolbox

Harmonic Balance Analysis: Compute output power, IP2, NF, and SNR in RF Budget Analyzer app using non-linear analysis

Mixed-Signal Blockset

Netlist import: Linear Circuit Wizard Block to create or modify linear circuits from a spice netlist

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Image Processing Toolbox

Volume Segmenter App: Segment 3-D grayscale or RGB volumetric images

Computer Vision Toolbox

Visual SLAM: Manage 3-D world points and projection correspondences to 2-D image points

Real-Time Simulation and Testing

Simulink Real-Time

64-bit POSIX compliant real-time operating system (RTOS): Robust multi-process RTOS designed to meet constrained real-time application resource requirements
New Simulink Real-Time Explorer and graphical instrument panels and applications: Control and configure a real-time application with an updated Simulink Real-Time Explorer, use App Designer to create graphical instrument panels and custom applications

Simulink Product Family

Simulink

Simulink Online: Use Simulink through your web browser
Automate Continuous Integration workflows with Automerge functionality.
Model Reference Performance – Generate code up to 2X faster for referenced model hierarchies (requires Simulink Coder)
Half-precision data type support: Design, simulate, and generate C and HDL code for half-precision algorithms (requires Fixed-Point Designer, HDL Coder, Simulink Coder)

Stateflow

Activity Profiler: Visually represent how often states, transitions, and functions in your chart are accessed during simulation

System Composer

Model to Model Allocations: Establish directed relationships between elements of two architectural models representing different aspects of the system

Simscape

Simscape

Impulsive Events: Reinitialize state variables to model physical phenomena as instantaneous events
Stiffness Impact Analysis Tool: Analyze effect of particular block variables on ovarall system stiffness of a Simscape network

AI, Data Science, and Statistics

Deep Learning Toolbox

Image Classification and Network Prediction Blocks: Simulate and generate code for deep learning models in Simulink
Experiment Manager App: Train multiple deep learning networks in parallel and tune hyperparameters using Bayesian optimization
Deep Network Designer App: Train networks for image classification, semantic segmentation, multiple-input, out-of-memory, image-to-image regression, and other workflows

Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

AutoML: Automatically select the best model and associated hyperparameters for regression (fitrauto)
Interpretability: Obtain locally interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME)
SVM Prediction Blocks: Simulate and generate code for SVM models in Simulink

Text Analytics Toolbox

Keyword Extraction: Extract keywords that best describe a document using RAKE and TextRank algorithms

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Lidar Toolbox

A new toolbox for designing, analyzing, and testing lidar processing systems

Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox

RFS Tracker: Track objects using the grid-based random finite set (RFS) tracker
Trajectory Generation: Create trajectories using earth-centered waypoints

UAV Toolbox

A new toolbox for designing, simulating, and deploying UAV applications

Signal Processing

Audio Toolbox

Deep learning: YAMNet sound classification and VGGish feature extraction

SerDes Toolbox

IBIS-AMI Jitter Analysis: Add IBIS-AMI jitter from SerDes Designer app

Signal Processing Toolbox

GPU Acceleration: Accelerate spectral analysis and time-frequency analysis functions

Wavelet Toolbox

Empirical Wavelet Transform: Perform adaptive signal decomposition using fully automated spectrum segmentation

Mapping Toolbox

Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS): Import, create and manage CRS for projected and unprojected map displays and analyses

Roadrunner Product Family

RoadRunner

A new product for designing 3D scenes for automated driving simulation

RoadRunner Asset Library

A new product for populating RoadRunner scenes with a library of 3D models

RoadRunner Scene Builder

A new product for automatically generating 3D road models from HD maps

Automotive

AUTOSAR Blockset

AUTOSAR Classic Release 4.4: Use schema version 4.4 for import and export of ARXML files and generation of AUTOSAR-compliant C code
Linux Executables for Adaptive Models: Create an AUTOSAR adaptive executable to run as a standalone application

Vehicle Dynamics Blockset

Vehicles and Trailers: Implement 6DOF trailers and vehicles with three axles
Simulation 3D Blocks: Visualize tractors and trailers in the Unreal Engine 3D environment axles

Code Generation

Embedded Coder

Individual Code Mappings: Configure storage classes for individual data elements in Code Mappings editor
MISRA compliance: Generate C and C++ code with fewer MISRA C:2012 and MISRA C++ 2008 violations
SIMD Code Generation: Generate SIMD intrinsics for fast loop and array execution on Intel SSE, AVX 256/512, and Arm NEON processors
Multithreaded Image Processing Code: Increased execution speed for generated code from common image processing functions

GPU Coder

Simulink Support: Generate, build, and deploy Simulink models to NVIDIA GPUs
Deep Learning Simulink Support: Generate, build, and deploy deep learning networks in Simulink models to NVIDIA GPUs

MATLAB Coder

Deep Learning: Generate code for custom layers for Intel and ARM CPUs.
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks: Generate code for LSTM, stateful LSTM, and bidirectional LSTM for Intel CPUs

Deep Learning HDL Toolbox

A new product for prototyping and deploying deep learning networks on FPGAs and SoCs

Verification and Validation

Simulink Model Test and Verification Products

Model Testing Dashboard: Track completeness of requirements-based testing for compliance to standards such as ISO 26262 with Simulink Check
Traceability Matrix: Manage multiple links and track requirements changes in single view with Requirements Toolbox
Parallel test execution on a remote cluster: Scale test execution by running tests in parallel on a cluster or in the cloud with Simulink Test (requires MATLAB Parallel Server)
Cross-release coverage data forward compatibility: Access coverage results collected in older releases (R2017b and later) in Simulink Coverage
Detect errors for system objects: Detect errors, generate tests, or prove properties for MATLAB code using system objects with Simulink Design Verifier

Polyspace Code Verification Products

AUTOSAR Support: Simplified setup of Polyspace project from AUTOSAR configuration
C++ Support: Added support for C++17 and 61 new checks for AUTOSAR C++14
Code Quality Progress Update: Compare results from latest run with previous runs
Jira Support: Integrate with Jira Software Cloud