An important part of our strategy is to make sure that our products fit well into the world of our users. The release, over the past two weeks, of three products that connect Maple 11 to Matlab and Simulink, shows this well. Many Maple customers also use Mathworks products and we want to ensure that it is easy to move your problems and data through your entire toolchain.
The Maple Toolbox for Matlab allows you to use all of Maple 11's functionality from within Matlab. And if I say "all functionality", I really do mean all; Maple's entire set of mathematical algorithms is available and, in addition, you can also launch the Maple worksheet interface, sharing a common variable space with your Matlab session. Suddenly your mathematical expressions can be entered and viewed in a natural, typeset notation.
BlockBuilder for Simulink allows you to derive mathematical models in Maple and then deploy them as a Simulink s-Function. Maple's automatic code generation is used to generate highly optimized C code to produce a high-performance s-Function block.
Perhaps the most exciting recent release and also an entirely new product is BlockImporter for Simulink. Select a Simulink model or subsystem and you get a mathematical representation, in terms of transfer functions or differential equations of what that subsystem represents. Use it to gain insight into your models or take the generated equations, simplify and reduce them, generate optimized C code and, combined with BlockBuilder, round-trip back to Simulink where your simulations can, in some cases, now run an order of magnitude faster.
The toolchain matters because our customers matter.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Sunday, March 4, 2007
A new beginning...
We have just launched Maple 11, a major upgrade to our flagship product, which had been in development for close to two years. With this launch, I am emerging from a pre-release period that has been as busy as always and it seems to be the right time to have a second go at starting a blog to share some of my thoughts on and around Maple.
My first attempt stalled about a year and a half ago, when the technology I was using wasn't able to cope with an avalanche of blog spam and I couldn't find the cycles to try to fix this or even to think about posts.
The release of Maple 11 also marks a new beginning for Maple, of course. A lot of effort has gone into this product and I think it shows. So, check it out. My personal favourite new features are a slideshow presentation view that can handle interactive mathematical content and a new plotting engine that allows you to annotate your graphs with a rich set of drawing tools. Our mathematical engine has seen significant enhancements. The DAE solver, for example, has had a major overhaul and can now give you very accurate solutions to some really large systems.
My first attempt stalled about a year and a half ago, when the technology I was using wasn't able to cope with an avalanche of blog spam and I couldn't find the cycles to try to fix this or even to think about posts.
The release of Maple 11 also marks a new beginning for Maple, of course. A lot of effort has gone into this product and I think it shows. So, check it out. My personal favourite new features are a slideshow presentation view that can handle interactive mathematical content and a new plotting engine that allows you to annotate your graphs with a rich set of drawing tools. Our mathematical engine has seen significant enhancements. The DAE solver, for example, has had a major overhaul and can now give you very accurate solutions to some really large systems.
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