{"id":2003,"date":"2013-03-11T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2022-05-29T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:38:42","slug":"some-of-my-favorite-new-features-in-r2013a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2013\/03\/11\/some-of-my-favorite-new-features-in-r2013a\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of My Favorite New Features in R2013a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATLAB R2013a is now available for download! At the end of this post, I reveal my favorite feature in R2013a&#8230; what will it be?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2013Q1\/R2013aRelease.png\" alt=\"R2013a is live!\" width=\"252\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For an overview of the new features, you can watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/new_products\/latest_features.html\">release highlight video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go in to more details, you can consult the <strong>What&#8217;s New<\/strong> page for individual products. Here is he link for <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/simulink\/whatsnew.html (link no longer works)\">What&#8217;s New in Simulink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another good source of information I like to go through is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/simulink\/release-notes.html\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of cool things you will notice for Simulink related products:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simulink<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reordering of tabs in the Simulink Editor<\/li>\n<li>Arrays of buses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/simulink\/ug\/importing-structures-of-matlab-timeseries-objects-for-bus-signals-to-a-root-level-input-port.html#btodj0v\">loading <\/a>and <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/simulink\/ug\/arrays-of-buses-in-models.html# (link no longer works)\">logging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gumstix Overo Hardware Support<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/hardware-support\/raspberry-pi-simulink.html\">Raspberry Pi Hardware Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Live update for variant systems and commented-out blocks<\/li>\n<li>Variant systems now accept direct expressions in variant control in addition to variant objects<\/li>\n<li>Masking of linked blocks<\/li>\n<li>Several enhancements to concurrent execution<\/li>\n<li>Simplified scripting interface for automating Simulink Project tasks<\/li>\n<li>Added support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/simulink\/ug\/types-of-sample-time.html\">variable sample times<\/a> in referenced models<\/li>\n<li>The Sample Time Legend now displays the source of triggered subsystem sample times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DSP System Toolbox<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/dsp\/ref\/spectrumanalyzer.html\">Spectrum Analyzer Scope<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/dsp\/ref\/dsp.logicanalyzerclass.html (link no longer works)\">Logic Analyzer Scope<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Triggering and peak finder features for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/dsp\/ref\/timescope.html\">Time Scope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Simscape<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vector and matrix physical signals<\/li>\n<li>New blocks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/physmod\/simscape\/ref\/randomnumber.html\">Random Number<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/physmod\/simscape\/ref\/uniformrandomnumber.html\">Uniform Random Number<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/physmod\/simscape\/ref\/perfectinsulator.html\">Perfect Insulator<\/a> for thermal domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SimMechanics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New blocks: Common Gear, Rack and Pinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/physmod\/sm\/ref\/pinslotjoint.html\">Pin Slot Joint<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/physmod\/sm\/ref\/internalforce.html\">Internal Force<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Published XML Schema for model import, enabling users to import mechanical models from external applications such as CAD systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SimRF<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/simrf\/\">SimRF<\/a> has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/simrf\/release-notes.html\">Circuit Envelope solver<\/a> for fast simulation and model load time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Documentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have to admit that some of my favorite improvements in R2013a are the enhancements made to the documentation center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highlighting of search results<\/li>\n<li>Tree view of the documentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2013Q1\/doc_tree_view.png\" alt=\"R2013a Documentation Center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now it&#8217;s your turn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us know what is your favorite R2013a feature by leaving a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=2003\ufffd\">comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2013Q1\/doc_tree_view.png\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MATLAB R2013a is now available for download! At the end of this post, I reveal my favorite feature in R2013a&#8230; what will it be?<\/p>\n<p>For an overview of the new features, you can watch this release&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2013\/03\/11\/some-of-my-favorite-new-features-in-r2013a\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/12347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}