Release 10 (MATLAB 5.2) Enhancements (Release 11 New Features)

Release 11 New Features

What Was New in Release 10 (MATLAB 5.2)?

Note All the features introduced in Release 10 are also in Release 11.

Release 11 completed bringing the whole MATLAB product family up to a MATLAB 5 level: the MATLAB Compiler and MATLAB C and C++ Math Libraries now work with MATLAB 5 and its associated products.

MATLAB 5.2 also added many important application development and visualization features.

In addition, other licensed products were updated with the release of MATLAB 5.2:

Simulink 2.2 added several enhancements, including new user interface features and additional simulation features.
Real-Time Workshop 2.2 added important enhancements.
New versions of most toolboxes were made available with Release 10 (see the "Toolboxes and Blocksets" for a complete list).
The Power System Blockset was introduced with Release 10.

Enhancements to MATLAB

The language and development environment enhancements introduced with MATLAB 5.2 include:

New MATLAB language functions, implementing features such as try/catch error handling, additional ODE functions, and M-file locking.
Expanded application development tools for the Microsoft Windows 95 and NT and UNIX platforms.
Improved Help Desk, with a much faster search engine that supports full-text searches, and easier HTML reference page navigation.
Support for two new ActiveX technologies: ActiveX control containment and ActiveX Automation client capabilities, so that now MATLAB can both control and be controlled by other ActiveX components.
Support for HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) files.

MATLAB 5.2 also added the following visualization and GUI development enhancements:

Support for OpenGL rendering to improve performance dramatically for many visualization applications.
Enhanced visualization features, including enhanced camera control, simplified placement of Light objects, tighter and more consistent control of graphics object hiding.
A print frame editor that enables you to create custom layouts for printing Simulink model diagrams.
Additional GUI development features, including the ability to define the location and size of user interface objects in units that are based on the size of the default system font, and to add tooltips, toggle buttons, context menus, etc.

Upgrades to Simulink, Real-Time Workshop, Toolboxes, and Blocksets

Simulink 2.2 introduced several enhancements, including Level 2 S-function support, new user interface features for the PC, additional simulation features, some new blocks and commands, and the ability to add print frames (header and footer annotation) to printouts of Simulink models.

Real-Time Workshop 2.2 utilized the Simulink Level-2 S-function feature to support Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs) for VxWorks, customized ISRs for your target system, multiple input/multiple output S-functions, and parameter checking while running.

Almost all toolboxes and blocksets were updated for Release 10. Toolboxes and blocksets with especially significant enhancements for Release 10 included:

Communications Toolbox 1.3
Control System Toolbox 4.1
DSP Blockset 2.2
Financial Toolbox 1.1
Fuzzy Logic Toolbox 2.0
Image Processing Toolbox 2.1
Neural Network Toolbox 3.0
Signal Processing Toolbox 4.1
Spline Toolbox 2.0

New Power System Blockset

The Power System Blockset 1.0 was introduced with Release 10. This new blockset is described in more detail later in this chapter.

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