MATLAB & Simulink Student Version

Product Details

• What You Can Do with Student Version
• Products Included in Student Version
• Obtaining Additional MathWorks Products

What You Can Do with Student Version

MATLAB

MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that lets you focus on your course work and applications, rather than on programming details. It enables you to solve many numerical problems in a fraction of the time it takes to write a program in a lower-level language such as Java™, C, C++, or Fortran. You can also use MATLAB to analyze and visualize data using automation capabilities, thereby avoiding the manual repetition common with other products.

Programming and developing algorithms is faster with MATLAB than with traditional languages because MATLAB supports interactive development without the need to perform low-level administrative tasks, such as declaring variables and allocating memory. Thousands of engineering and mathematical functions are available, eliminating the need to code and test them yourself. At the same time, MATLAB provides all the features of a traditional programming language, including arithmetic operators, flow control, data structures, data types, object-oriented programming, and debugging features.

MATLAB helps you better understand and apply concepts in a wide range of engineering, science, and mathematics applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology. Add-on toolboxes, which are collections of task- and application-specific MATLAB functions, add to the MATLAB environment to solve particular classes of problems in these application areas.

With over one million users, MATLAB is recognized as a standard tool for increasing the productivity of engineers and scientists. Employers worldwide consistently report the advantages of being MATLAB proficient.

Differences in Student Version

The MATLAB in Student Version provides all the features and capabilities of the professional version of MATLAB software, with no limitations. There are a few small differences between the Student Version interface and the professional version of MATLAB:

• The MATLAB prompt in Student Version is EDU>>
• Printouts contain this footer: Student Version of MATLAB

Simulink

You can use Simulink for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems, including controls, signal processing, communications, and other complex systems. It supports linear and nonlinear systems, modeled in continuous time, sampled time, or a hybrid of the two. Systems can also be multirate, that is, they can have different parts that are sampled or updated at different rates.

Simulink encourages you to try things. You can easily build models from scratch, or take an existing model and add to it. You have instant access to all the MATLAB analysis tools, so you can take the results and analyze and visualize them. A goal of Simulink is to give you a sense of the fun of modeling and simulation through an environment that encourages you to pose a question, model it, and see what happens.

Simulink is used widely in industry for multiple modeling domains, and it includes tools for design, implementation, verification, and validation. Around the world, thousands of engineers and scientists rely on Simulink for modeling and simulating complex systems, rapidly prototyping concepts, and deploying code to production hardware; learning Simulink will serve you well throughout your professional career.

Differences in Student Version

The Simulink in Student Version provides the full functionality of the professional version of Simulink, with the following differences:

• Models are limited to 1000 blocks.
• Accelerator and Rapid-Accelerator simulation modes are not available in Student Version.
• Model reference blocks cannot be used
• Printouts contain this footer: Student Version of MATLAB

Additional Products

Student Version includes seven other add-on products that add to MATLAB and Simulink, so you have virtually all the tools you will need for most basic courses in engineering, applied mathematics, science and finance.

Product	Description
Control System Toolbox	Tools for systematically analyzing, designing, and tuning linear control systems. You can specify a linear model of your system; plot its time and frequency responses to understand how the system behaves; tune the controller parameters using automated and interactive techniques; and verify performance requirements, such as rise time and gain/phase margins.
Signal Processing Toolbox	Industry-standard algorithms for analog and digital signal processing.
Signal Processing Blockset	Efficient frame-based processing and Simulink blocks for designing, implementing, and verifying signal processing systems. The blockset enables you to model streaming data and multirate systems in numerically intensive application areas such as communications, audio/video, digital control, radar/sonar, and consumer and medical electronics.
Statistics Toolbox	Statistical tools to assess and understand numeric data. The toolbox includes functions and interactive tools for analyzing historical data, modeling data, simulating systems, developing statistical algorithms, and learning and teaching statistics.
Optimization Toolbox	Widely used algorithms for standard and large-scale optimization. These algorithms solve constrained and unconstrained continuous and discrete problems. The toolbox includes functions for linear programming, quadratic programming, nonlinear optimization, nonlinear least squares, nonlinear equations, multiobjective optimization, and binary integer programming.
Symbolic Math Toolbox	Provides tools for solving and manipulating symbolic math expressions and performing variable-precision arithmetic. The toolbox contains hundreds of MATLAB symbolic functions that leverage the MuPAD® engine for tasks such as differentiation, integration, simplification, transforms, and equation-solving. It also includes the MuPAD language, which is optimized for handling and operating on symbolic math expressions, and provides libraries of MuPAD functions in common mathematical areas such as calculus and linear algebra, as well as specialized areas such as number theory and combinatorics. You can extend the built-in functionality by writing custom symbolic functions and libraries in the MuPAD language. All functions can be accessed from within MATLAB or from the MuPAD Notebook Interface, where you can manage and document your symbolic computations.
Image Processing Toolbox	Reference-standard algorithms and graphical tools for image processing, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development. You can restore noisy or degraded images, enhance images for improved intelligibility, extract features, analyze shapes and textures, and register two images.
Product Demos	Student Version includes many product demos. A demo version of Stateflow software lets you edit and run Simulink models. You can use Stateflow to design and simulate state machines and control logic. However, the demo version does not let you save models.

Obtaining Additional MathWorks Products

Many college courses recommend MATLAB and Simulink products as standard instructional software. In some cases, the courses may require particular toolboxes, blocksets, or other products that are not included with Student Version. You may purchase and download these additional products at special student prices from The MathWorks Store.

Examples of the products you can purchase include

• Bioinformatics Toolbox
• Communications Blockset
• Financial Toolbox
• Fuzzy Logic Toolbox
• Neural Network Toolbox
• Stateflow (A demo version of Stateflow software is included with your Student Version.)

See the complete list of add-on products and their product dependencies.

Note: The additional toolboxes and blocksets that are available for use with Student Version have the same functionality as the professional version, with the exception of SimMechanics software, which has a 20-body limitation. The student versions of the toolboxes and blocksets will work only with MATLAB & Simulink Student Version. Similarly, the professional versions of these toolboxes and blocksets do not work with Student Version.