Download Matlab 7.5

Matlab is an interactive and mathematical environment for developing algorithms, performing numerical calculations and visualizing and analyzing data. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developers have released version 7.5 with the following list of changes:

Version 7.5, part of Release 2007b, includes the following enhancements:

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• MATLAB arrays no longer limited to 231 (~2 x109) elements, allowing many numeric and low-level file I/O functions to support real double arrays greater than 16 GB on 64-bit platforms
• New function maxNumCompThreads enabling use of get and set for the maximum number of computational threads
• Upgraded Linear Algebra Package library (LAPACK 3.1) on all platforms, plus upgraded optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprogram libraries (BLAS) on Intel processors (MKL 9.1) and on AMD processors (AMCL 3.6)

Development Environment:

• Code folding in the Editor, allowing easier viewing and navigation of large MATLAB files with many functions
• Ability to run functions directly from the Editor by configuring a set of arguments for an M-file
• Quick access to function help from the command line or in the Editor

Language and Programming:

• New MException class and new try-catch syntax, allowing more robust catching and handling of errors

Mathematics:

• Sparse matrix support added to the ldl function and backslash operator (\), allowing factorization and solving of real symmetric sparse matrices
• New quadgk function, allowing numerical integration using Gauss-Kronrod quadrature and supporting integration over infinite limits
• New bvp5c function for solving boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations, more efficient for small error tolerances

File I/O and External Interfacing:

• New mmreader multimedia reader object on Windows platforms supporting formats such as AVI, MPEG, and WMV, and additional codecs

Graphics and GUI Building:

• Toolbar editor in GUIDE to interactively design toolbars for graphical user interfaces

Embedded MATLAB:

• Note Generating compiled MEX-files from Embedded MATLAB functions requires Simulink or Fixed-Point Toolbox. Generating C code requires Simulink and Real-Time Workshop, and generating HDL code requires Simulink and Simulink HDL Coder. Embedded MATLAB is also supported by Stateflow and SimEvents.
• Support for algorithms that span multiple M-files, improving algorithm reuse and maintenance
• Support for calling external C functions
• Data type override, facilitating fixed-point design and enabling a single source for fixed- and floating-point code generation
• Expanded Embedded MATLAB runtime library with 13 new functions, including fixed-point bitwise operators such as bitsliceget, bitconcat, and bitandreduce

see the Release Notes for details.