R2020a at a Glance

MATLAB

• File Encoding: Save MATLAB code files and other plain text files as UTF-8 encoded files by default
• Graphics:
  • boxchart: Create box plots to visualize grouped numeric data
  • tiledlayout Function: Position, nest, and change the grid size of layouts
  • ChartContainer Class: Develop charts that display a tiling of Cartesian, polar, or geographic plot
• Live Editor Tasks: Interactively retime or synchronize timetables, and stack or unstack table variables

Financial Instruments Toolbox

• Pricing and Valuation: price various types of financial instruments individually or collectively as a portfolio using new object-oriented framework.

Optimization Toolbox

• Code Generation: Generate C/C++ code to solve quadratic programming problems with quadprog (requires MATLAB Coder)

Industrial Communication Toolbox

• OPC UA Security: Connect to OPC UA servers over secure connections and configure security settings

Predictive Maintenance Toolbox

• Diagnostic Feature Designer App: Generate MATLAB code from the App to automate signal processing, feature extraction, and feature ranking tasks

Symbolic Math Toolbox

• Live Editor Tasks: Interactively solve equations, simplify symbolic expressions, and generate MATLAB code in a live script

MATLAB Web App Server

• A new product for sharing MATLAB apps and Simulink simulations as browser-based web apps

Statistics and Machine Learning

• Automated Machine Learning (AutoML): Automatically select the best model and associated hyperparameters for classification (fitcauto)

Text Analytics Toolbox

• Document Summarization: Extract summaries from text

Simulink

• Flexible Port Placement: Locate ports on any side, in any order, on Subsystems, Subsystem References, Model References, and Stateflow charts
• C Function Block: Write C code to integrate external algorithms

Simulink 3D Animation

• Full X3D support: Easily create, edit and view 3D scenes using the ISO standard X3D (Extensible 3D) file format

Simulink Compiler

• A new product for sharing simulations as standalone executables, web apps, and Functional Mockup Units (FMUs)

Motor Control Blockset

• A new product for designing and implementing motor control algorithms

Stateflow

• Stateflow Variants: Use transitions as variant controls to add variability into your logic designs
• Stateflow chart as test harness source and scheduler: Define complex test scenarios with Stateflow (requires Simulink Test)

System Composer

• Requirement Linking: Link requirements to component ports, and components in Spotlight Views (requires Requirements Toolbox)
• Spotlight views for AUTOSAR Architecture models: Create a diagram that focuses on a single AUTOSAR software component and its connectivity (requires AUTOSAR Blockset)

Aerospace Toolbox and Blockset

• World Magnetic Model 2020: Calculate the Earth magnetic field in MATLAB and Simulink

Computer Vision Toolbox

• OpenCV Interface for Simulink: Integrate OpenCV library into Simulink block diagrams

Deep Learning Toolbox

• Experiment Manager App: Manage multiple deep learning experiments, keep track of training parameters, and analyze and compare results and code
• Deep Network Designer App: Interactively train a network for image classification, generate MATLAB code for training, and access pretrained models

GPU Coder

• Deep Learning Code Generation: Networks include single shot object detection (SSD), DarkNet-19 and NASNet-Large

Simulink Model Test and Verification Products

• MAB 5.0 Support: Automate checking of models to MAB 5.0 modeling style guidelines with Simulink Check
• Coverage for Requirements-Based Tests: Scope model coverage results to linked requirements in the Test Manager
• Traceability Matrix: Review and analyze links between requirements, design or test in a matrix format with Requirements Toolbox
• Post-Simulation Coverage Workflows: Use and create coverage filters from the Test Manager without rerunning simulations

Polyspace Code Verification Products

• Performance Checkers: Check for coding practices that can cause performance issues in C++ code with Polyspace Bug Finder
• Bug Tracking Tool Support: Create Redmine issues with Polyspace Access