User`s guide

1 Introducing Release 12.1
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•External interfaces, including:
- Concatenation of Java arrays
- New Fortran MEX, MX, MAT, and ENG functions
- Serial I/O enhancements
•Creating graphical user interfaces (GUIDE), with enhancements to the
Layout Editor and the Menu Editor
Simulink 4.1
Major enhancements to Simulink 4.1 include:
•The Simulink Editor new features and enhancements, such as:
- Autoconnection and autorouting for blocks and signals
- Undo option improvements
- Ability to save Release 11 format models
•Modeling enhancements, including an S-Function Builder for generating an
S-function from a specification and generating code for Real-Time Workshop
•Block Library additions and enhancements, such as:
- New control flow blocks For Iterator, If, Switch Case, and While Iterator
- New Bus Creator block for combining the output of multiple blocks into a
single signal bus
- Additional data type support for some blocks
- Floating Scope block, with enhancements for signal selection and saving
selected signals
Note See “Simulink Performance Tools 1.1” on page 1-14, if you have that
product.
Stateflow 4.1 and Stateflow Coder 4.1
The major enhancements to Stateflow 4.1 and Stateflow Coder 4.1 include:
•More search capabilities added to Stateflow’s Search & Replace tool
•Stateflow charts now include the graphical innovation of “smart” transitions
whose ends slide around the surfaces of states and junctions.