NATICK, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 9, 2015 — MathWorks today introduced Release 2015b (R2015b) with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink. In addition to new features in MATLAB and Simulink, R2015b includes updates and bug fixes to 83 other products.

MATLAB Product Family

• MATLAB updates include:
  • New execution engine that runs MATLAB code faster
  • Graph and directed graph functions for creating, analyzing, and visualizing graphs and networks
  • Add-On Explorer - a single interface for adding community-authored and MathWorks toolboxes, apps, functions, models, and hardware support
  • Hardware support for iOS sensors, Raspberry Pi 2, and BeagleBone Black
• MATLAB Compiler SDK: Deployable MATLAB components for integration with applications written in Python
• Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox: SVR (support vector regression) and Gaussian processes (Kriging) for fitting models, PCA feature transformation in the Classification Learner app, and GPU acceleration of 65 functions
• Parallel Computing Toolbox: GPU acceleration for functions in Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox including probability distributions, descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing; and additional MATLAB functions
• Image Processing Toolbox: Gabor and box filtering, C code generation for 20 functions with MATLAB Coder, and improved grayscale morphology and filtering performance
• Computer Vision System Toolbox: 3-D point cloud processing, including geometric shape fitting, normal vector estimation and visualization
• Database Toolbox: Faster database read and write
• Control System Toolbox: 2-DOF PID controller tuning
• Robust Control Toolbox: Robust tuning with systune and the Control System Tuner app for automatically tuning robust controllers for plants with uncertain parameters

Simulink Product Family

• Simulink updates include:
  • New UI in scopes for viewing and debugging signals with cursors and measurements
  • Referenced projects for creating reusable components and simplifying large modeling projects
  • Always-on tuning of block parameters and workspace variables during simulation
  • Multilingual block names, signal names, and MATLAB Function comments for use across Simulink, Stateflow and Simulink Coder
• Stateflow: Messages - new objects that carry data and that can be queued
• Simscape: Two-Phase Fluid block library and simulation speed improvements for switched-linear systems
• Simulink Design Optimization: Faster parameter estimation and response optimization with Simulink Fast Restart

Signal Processing and Communications

• Antenna Toolbox: Analysis of infinite arrays and visualization of E-H fields
• LTE System Toolbox : Release 12 downlink 256 QAM modulation for small cells, Release 11 multicell zero power CSI-RS patterns, and enhanced waveform generation