Installation guide

Release Notes for R2006a
- Tab completion for functions and vsuiables in the Editor/Debugger
- Ability to retum to previous points in an M-file in the Editor/Debugger
• Mathematics
- New ddesd fimction solves initial value problems for delay differential
equations with general delays
- Upgraded optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprogrsmti (BLAS) libraries
for Intel processors on Windows and Linux platforms (MKL 8.0.1) and
AMD processors on Linux platforms (ACML 2.7)
- Improved performance of sparse Cholesky factorization with use of
CHOLMOD 1.0 routines
Simulink
• Large-scale modeling
- Simulink now detects and pinpoints excessive zero-crossing events to
specific blocks in your model, to help you diagnose and fix performance
problems in your model.
- A new tiled printing feature lets you print a block diagram across multiple
pages that can be taped together to create a large printout.
- The Subsystem block context menu now includes a Convert to Model item
that converts an atomic subsystem to a model reference.
- The new Concatenate block concatenates its input signals to create a
single output signal whose elements occupy contiguous locations in
memory. The block typically uses less memory than the Matrix
Concatenation block that it replaces.
- Support for disabling the inline parameters option for the top model in a
model reference hierarchy. This lets you tune the top model's parameters
without sacrificing the simulation speed resulting from model referencing.
- New command-line API for running the Model Advisor fi"om MATLAB
- Signal logs now preserve the hierarchy of bus data, which faciUtates
generation of test vectors for large models.
• Embedded systems design
- Support for fixed-point values to specify the values of block psu-ameters,
which can improve the performance of generated code
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