Matlab Home Edition! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Fsck
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 05:06:47 am
content: did a forum search but didnt see this:Looks like they finally coughed up a home edition for matlab. the crappy thing is that all the little toolboxes are optional. 150$ USD gets you the base version. The bad news is that all the toolboxes will cost you 45$ each and the total of that cost makes the base copy look cheap. For me, I'd want 15 of the toolboxes... which comes to 675$ for the toolboxes alone.

author: Neganur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 04:36:25 pm
content: Do you really need all those toolboxes? I'd use maybe 3 of them for a standard math package. The DAQ / instrument control boxes aren't really needed.

author: Fsck
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 04:39:54 pm
content: Quote from: Neganur on March 15, 2014, 04:36:25 pmlaziness is the reason to use matlab. otherwise, you might as well streamline your programming and avoid Java, and Matlab (at least versions I've used, matlab's memory leaks).matlab isn't really a math package anyways

author: dc101
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 04:51:39 pm
content: Quote from: Fsck on March 15, 2014, 05:06:47 amStill not a bad price for a full fledged version of Matlab. I added all the RF/Simulink electronics toolboxes and came to $599 total, including Matlab.

author: Prime73
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 04:53:18 pm
content: Just curious. What do you MathLab for?

author: MasterBuilder
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 05:15:22 pm
content: Quote from: Prime73 on March 15, 2014, 04:53:18 pmIts Matlab not Mathlab.Its industry standard for system design, take a look on the website, basically a software package to design, debug and simulate any thing you can dream of!

author: arekm
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 05:38:15 pm
content: I wonder... did you try to use octave instead of matlab?https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

author: Prime73
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 07:20:36 pm
content: ok MatlabI thought it's used more in fundamental science for algorithms development, data analysis, etc. How do you it in electronics design, etc? any examples?Quote from: MasterBuilder on March 15, 2014, 05:15:22 pm

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 08:17:58 pm
content: Quote from: Prime73 on March 15, 2014, 07:20:36 pmWhen you design a system you do two things: (1) you set up a model of the system you are designing and then try to adjust the model to do exactly what you want; (2) you try to make sure the model accurately represents how the real system would behave were you to build it.With simple designs you can often do this with pencil and paper, back of the envelope calculations, rules of thumb, etc.With more complex designs you need some kind of computation and modeling tool to help you do the calculations and model validation that you can't easily do by hand. This is where a tool like Matlab comes in. Matlab isn't the only tool that can help with this, but Matlab is widely used because it is very general purpose and extensible. You can adapt it to almost anything, which makes it less constraining than specialist tools such as Spice.

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 09:55:19 am
content: QuoteI use scilab for my matlabish needs. Also, it has a simulink like thingie. There are more open source packages out there - R, Octave, Scilab...

author: nowlan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 11:02:13 am
content: Not easy to find.http://www.mathworks.com.au/products/matlab-home/https://www.mathworks.com.au/store/link/products/home/

author: Kohanbash
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 03:45:15 pm
content: HiIf you do not need the toolboxes then Octave is often a good solution instead of Matlabhttps://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 04:47:58 pm
content: Meh, excel serves me just fine, I find it funny that I get the thousand yard stares from the interns when I tell them to turn their shiny algo in matlab to C so it actually does something for real. Yes I know there's a C generator but everyone who tried it had less than stellar opinions.

author: Lukas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 05:00:09 pm
content: For everyday number crunching/signal processing I prefer numpy/scipy/matplotib over MATLAB. It's so much better designed and not as cluttered as MATLAB (namespaces, keyword arguments, function scoping, object oriented standard library, hexadecimal/binary literals, ...)

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 06:19:04 pm
content: Quote from: Hypernova on March 16, 2014, 04:47:58 pmBut that is not a defect of Matlab. That is a defect of your interns not being able to specify an algorithm in a programming language independent way.In the 1960th good old Donald Knuth already defined a way to specify computer algorithms in a programming language independent way. Published as part of and used in his The Art of Computer Programming volume 1 book. And he was maybe not even the first. Since then methods have been improved over time.Interns not knowing the basics maybe skipped class on to often.QuoteThat's typical for machine translations of programming languages. Maybe sometime in the future someone at Google will be bored and will apply their knowledge of machine translation of human languages to the translation of programming languages.

author: Noise Floor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2014, 03:17:29 am
content: Quote from: MasterBuilder on March 15, 2014, 05:15:22 pmActually it's MATLAB, not Matlab.