R2017b at a Glance

MATLAB

• Live Editor support for MATLAB commands with automated, contextual hints for arguments, property values, and alternative syntaxes
• geobubble function for creating interactive maps with bubbles whose size and color vary with data values, and wordcloud function for displaying words at sizes based on frequency or other data
• Code compatibility report to help update code to a newer MATLAB release
• binscatter, plot, and scatter functions for visualizing out-of-memory data in tall arrays
• MATLAB Engine API for running MATLAB code from C++ programs, and passing data between C++ programs and MATLAB using MATLAB Data Array

Text Analytics Toolbox

• A new product for analyzing and modeling text data

Optimization Toolbox

• Problem-based optimization using simple expressions to specify objectives and constraints

Database Toolbox

• Database Explorer app to visually explore relational databases without knowing SQL
• Database Toolbox interface for MongoDB

Symbolic Math Toolbox

• Unit systems to use physical dimensions, convert between SI and US units, and create custom systems of units

Model Predictive Control Toolbox

• Approximate QP solution to determine worst-case execution time

Simulink Requirements

• A new product for authoring, managing, and tracing requirements to models, generated code, and test cases

Simulink Check

• A new product for verifying compliance with style guidelines and modeling standards

Simulink Coverage

• A new product for measuring test coverage in models and generated code

Simulink

• Model differencing for comparing and merging differences between models including Stateflow charts and MATLAB Function blocks
• Automatic project creation to convert a folder into a Simulink Project
• Schedulable components for creating compositions of components for modeling scheduling effects in software environments 
• Simulation Manager to monitor, inspect and visualize simulation progress and results, including parallel simulation runs

Stateflow

• Ability to include continuous and periodic Simulink algorithms inside Stateflow states for easier mode switching
•  State transition activity and data value visualization with Sequence Viewer and Simulation Data Inspector
• Transition syntax cues for easier creation of concise, readable diagrams with smart queues and actions, new temporal and message operators, and auto layout

Simulink Control Design

• PID autotuning for implementing embedded PID autotuning algorithm

Simscape

• Nominal value specification for improving simulation robustness by providing scale of variables to solver
• Operating point management to initialize models from saved operating points

Antenna Toolbox

• pcbstack object for designing and analyzing custom PCB antennas with arbitrary metal-dielectric layers, and generating Gerber files to fabricate printed antennas

Communications System Toolbox

• Library for simulation of low rate wireless personal area networks technologies using ZigBee^® protocol
• Library for simulation of near field communication wireless technologies using NFC protocol

LTE System Toolbox

• Modeling of physical layer algorithms for 5G channel coding, narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) links, and LTE V2X communication

Wireless HDL Toolbox

• A new product for modeling LTE communications subsystems for FPGAs and ASICs

Neural Network Toolbox

• Directed acyclic graph (DAG) networks for deep learning with more complex architectures to improve accuracy and use popular pretrained models
• Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for deep learning for time-series classification and prediction
• Deep learning training plots for monitoring training progress for accuracy, loss, validation metrics, and more
• Deep learning image preprocessing for efficiently resizing and augmenting image data for training

Computer Vision System Toolbox

• Semantic segmentation using deep learning to classify pixel regions in images and evaluate and visualize segmentation results

GPU Coder

• A new product for generating CUDA code for implementation on NVIDIA GPUs for automated driving and other deep learning applications

Embedded Coder

• AUTOSAR support to import AUTOSAR compositions, simulate diagnostic and memory services, and use queued send and receive messages

Fixed-Point Designer

• Simplified Fixed-Point Tool for easy conversion of Simulink systems to fixed point

MATLAB Coder

• C code generation for machine learning deployment including discriminant analysis classifier models, linear regression models, support vector machine (SVM) regression models, and ensembles of regression trees

Simulink Coder

• C++ class generation from Simulink functions including initialize, reset, and terminate events

Simulink Desktop Real-Time

• ThingSpeak IoT platform interface

GPU Coder

• A new product for generating CUDA code for NVIDIA GPUs