This section highlights new features and enhancements in the following products:
1. Communications Toolbox
2. Control System Toolbox
3. Database Toolbox
4. Filter Design Toolbox
5. Financial Derivatives Toolbox
6. Instrument Control Toolbox
7. Mapping Toolbox
8. Model Predictive Control Toolbox
9. Optimization Toolbox
10. Statistics Toolbox
11. System Identification Toolbox
12. Virtual Reality Toolbox
13. Wavelet Toolbox
14. Communications Toolbox
(1)A graphical user interface and several functions that help you analyze the bit error rate (BER) performance of communication systems
(2)Linear equalizers, decision feedback equalizers, and maximum-likelihood sequence estimation equalizers
(3)Rayleigh and Rician fading channels
(4)Block and convolutional interleavers
(5)Huffman encoder and decoder
(6)Support for rectangular pulse shaping at a transmitter and matched filtering at the corresponding receiver
(7)Enhanced support for digital baseband modulation and analog passband modulation
15. Control System Toolbox
(1)Overhauled numerical engine based on the LAPACK and SLICOT libraries for improved speed and accuracy
(2)Better model reduction algorithms with support for unstable models
(3)New commands for modal decompositions
16. Database Toolbox
(1)Support for BINARY and OTHER Java SQL objects, such as bitmap images
(2)Functionality to write data back to any ODBC/JDBC database through the Visual Query Builder
(3)Visual Query Builder support for structures and numeric arrays with display features
17.Filter Design Toolbox
(1)Extensive support for second-order section IIR filters, including design, reordering, scaling, graphical analysis, and fixed-point implementation
(2)Ability to cascade several multirate filters together and to cascade single-rate and multirate filters
(3)Enhanced fixed-point filter simulation, analysis, and integration with the Signal Processing Blockset
(4)FIR filter design functions
(5)FDATool improvements, including advanced filter design methods, multirate filter creation panel, redesigned quantization panel, and enhanced SOS reordering/scaling dialog
(6)Filter object methods for FPGA simulation with the Filter Design HDL Coder
(7)New filter design objects for FIR and IRR filter design
18. Financial Derivatives Toolbox
(1)Cox-Ross-Rubinstein and Equal Probability models for computing the prices and dollar sensitivities of exotic equity options, including Bermuda, compound, barrier, Asian, and lookback.
19.Instrument Control Toolbox
(1)Instrument driver support, including IVI, VXIplug&play, and MATLAB instrument drivers, enabling instrument communication without having to learn instrument specific commands
(2)New graphical user interface (tmtool) for instrument identification, configuration, and communication
(3)Instrument driver development and testing tools for creating and verifying custom instrument drivers