R2021a at a Glance

MATLAB Product Family

MATLAB

• Live Editor Controls: Link variables to drop-down items and slider values to create dynamic controls in live scripts
• Create Plot Live Editor Task: Create plots interactively and generate code
• Name=Value Syntax: Use name=value syntax for passing name-value arguments to functions
• Class Diagram Viewer: Create graphical class diagrams to explore class hierarchy and class details

MATLAB Web App Server

• Policy-Based Access: Specify a policy to control access to individual folders of web apps

Partial Differential Equation Toolbox

• Electromagnetic Analysis: Solve 2-D electrostatic and magnetostatic problems

Symbolic Math Toolbox

• Symbolic Matrix Variables: Perform linear algebra calculations on symbolic matrix variables represented in a compact form

AI, Data Science, and Statistics

Deep Learning Toolbox

• Experiment Manager: Minimize coding using preconfigured templates and train with custom training loops
• TensorFlow Importer: Import sequential and functional API models into MATLAB

Reinforcement Learning Toolbox

• Reinforcement Learning Designer: Design, train, and simulate agents using a visual interactive workflow

Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

• Machine Learning Apps: Evaluate models on held-out test data and fit fully connected neural nets in Classification Learner and Regression Learner
• Interpretability: Interpret complex models using Shapley values to obtain model-agnostic explanations
• Prediction Blocks in Simulink: Simulate and generate C/C++ code for decision trees and ensembles of trees

Text Analytics Toolbox

• BERT Transformer Models: Use BERT models for tasks such as text classification, summarization, and sentiment analysis

Automotive

Automated Driving Toolbox

• Share driving scenarios using the ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.0 format
• Create driving scenarios from road data imported from the Zenrin Japan Map API 3.0 (Itsumo NAVI API 3.0) service

AUTOSAR Blockset

• Use Simulink bus ports to model AUTOSAR message-based communication, export-function based runnable entities, variant conditions, and nonvirtual buses
• Import and export ARXML files with execution order constraints for software component runnable entities at the architecture (VFB) level

IEC Certification Kit

• ISO 26262 ADAS Example: Learn how to use Simulink to design, implement, and verify an ADAS application according to ISO 26262:2018

RoadRunner

• Super-elevation tool to manipulate banking angles along roads

RoadRunner Scene Builder

• Import signs, poles, and barriers from HERE HD Live Maps

Vehicle Dynamics Blockset

• Import custom meshes and control vehicle lighting in Unreal Engine vehicle enhancements
• Control weather and sun position in Unreal Engine scenes

Vehicle Network Toolbox

• CAN and CAN FD Explorer Apps: Decode CAN and CAN FD messages and visualize CAN and CAN FD bus traffic without writing MATLAB code

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Image Processing Toolbox

• Process 2-D, 3-D, and N-D images that are too large to fit in memory
• Code generation: Enhanced execution speed for code generated from several functions
• Image Processing Onramp: Learn the basics of practical image processing techniques in MATLAB

Computer Vision Toolbox

• Support for labeling and deep learning with arbitrarily large images

Lidar Toolbox

• Use the Lidar Camera Calibrator App for calibrating lidar and camera sensors to estimate rigid transformations

Simulink Product Family

Simulink

• Simulink Code Importer: Import C code as reusable Simulink libraries
• Simulation acceleration: Speed up simulations using SIMD instructions and multithreaded co-simulation
• Bus Element Ports: Create and access component interfaces with bus element ports using all types of name-based composite signals, including nonvirtual buses and arrays of buses
• Event Logging and Animation: Inspect and animate events in the model involving Function-Call Subsystem blocks, Simulink messages, and Simulink functions, using Event Animation and the Sequence Viewer tools
• Record Block: Record simulation data to the workspace and to files from the same block

Stateflow

• Architecture models: Describe component behavior in System Composer using state charts with Stateflow to represent modes of operation
• Stateflow editor: Build clean, understandable models faster with Quick insert, resize-time guides, and transition label stems

System Composer

• Sequence Diagrams: Describe system behavior as a sequence of interactions between components

Simulink Compiler

• Source code FMU export: Export FMUs with C source code for cross-platform compilation

Aerospace Toolbox

• satelliteScenario Object: Design and analyze scenarios, consisting of satellites and ground stations with 2-D and 3-D globe visualization, including orbit propagation, ground-track modeling, and line-of-sight access analysis

Aerospace Blockset

• Spacecraft reference models: Model, simulate, and visualize the motion and dynamics of small satellites and spacecraft in Simulink with preconfigured model and project templates (previously part of CubeSat Simulation Library Add-On)

Code Generation

DDS Blockset

• A new product for designing and simulating DDS applications

Embedded Coder

• C++ code mappings: Configure C++ class interfaces using code mappings via interactive and programmatic workflows
• Improved MISRA C++:2008: Generate code with reduced violations for MISRA C++:2008 and AUTOSAR C++14 rules
• Image Processing Code Generation: Enhanced execution speed for several Image Processing Toolbox functions

MATLAB Coder

• Generate C/C++ code for deep learning networks that does not depend on third-party libraries

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Navigation Toolbox

• SLAM enhancement using multisensor and landmark points for pose-graph and GNSS simulation with improved accuracy
• Simulate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellations and estimate receiver positions

ROS Toolbox

• Generate C++ ROS Nodes using MATLAB Coder

UAV Toolbox

• Add DTED terrain data or meshes to simulated UAV scenarios
• Control weather and sun position in Unreal Engine scenes

RF and Mixed-Signal

Antenna Toolbox

• Specify metal conductivity using the MetalCatalog or custom properties, and analyze radiation efficiency

Mixed-Signal Blockset

• Mixed-Signal Analyzer App: Analyze and visualize mixed-signal simulation data, trends, and waveforms

RF Toolbox

• RF system object for simulating RF Blockset circuit envelope models in MATLAB

Simscape

Simscape

• Simscape Onramp: Learn the basics of how to create, edit, and simulate Simscape models through an interactive tutorial

Simscape Electrical

• Energy Storage Modeling: Simulate electro-thermal battery and fuel-cell systems at different levels of model fidelity

Test and Verification

Simulink Requirements

• Requirements Editor: New user interface and toolstrip with Simulink Requirements

Simulink Check

• Artifact Traceability Graph: View relationships between requirements-based testing artifacts to understand traceability with Simulink Check

Simulink Test

• Unit Testing C/C++ Code: Import and test external C/C++ code with Simulink Test
• Atomic Subsystem Unit Testing: Use a single test harness to verify equivalence of normal and software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulations for atomic subsystems with Simulink Test

Simulink Coverage

• Code Coverage Traceability: Trace code coverage results to associated tests for models simulated in software-in-the-loop or processor-in-the-loop modes with Simulink Coverage

Simulink Design Verifier

• Observer support: Use Observer models to wirelessly access signals to define analysis goals with Simulink Design Verifier

Polyspace Code Verification Products

• Polyspace as You Code: Run static code analysis and view results in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Eclipse
• MISRA C:2012: Support for MISRA C:2012 Technical Corrigendum 1 and Amendment 2
• C++ Support: Verify projects containing a mix of C and C++ source files

Signal Processing

Audio Toolbox

• CREPE and OpenL3 deep networks for pitch estimation and audio embeddings
• i-Vectors for low-dimensional signal representation in machine learning applications

DSP System Toolbox

• Analyze and configure multicore execution for Simulink models using dataflow domains

Radar Toolbox

• A new product for designing, simulating, and testing multifunction radar systems

Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox

• Systematically construct tracking architectures and simulate tracking systems

Signal Processing Toolbox

• Signal Processing Onramp: Complete an interactive tutorial to learn signal processing methods including preprocessing signals, filtering, and spectral analysis
• Signal Labeler App: Label real and complex-valued signals and use the dashboard to analyze labeling progress and distribution of labels in your labeled signal set

Wavelet Toolbox

• Wavelet Time Scattering: Accelerate and deploy automatic feature extraction of time × channel × batch data

Wireless Communications

5G Toolbox

• Generate 5G NR uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) customized waveforms using functions or the Wireless Waveform Generator app

Communications Toolbox

• Computationally efficient ray tracing analysis for channel models using the shooting-and-bouncing rays (SBR) method
• Wireless autoencoder deep learning example with an unsupervised joint-coding-and-modulation scheme

LTE Toolbox

• Access LTE Toolbox functionality on MATLAB Online

Satellite Communications Toolbox

• A new product for simulating, analyzing, and testing satellite communications systems and links

WLAN Toolbox

• Generate an IEEE 802.11be single-user waveform and measure transmitter modulation accuracy, spectral mask, and spectral flatness
• IEEE 802.11az positioning and localization using deep learning