Add more to Maple
Samir Khan
Product Specialist
Aswell as brand-new versions of the core Maple and Maple T.A. products,
Maple developers have been pretty busy on the add-on front too, so we thought
we’d include a brief
summary of what’s been released recently.
In the last issue of this
magazine we introduced BlockBuilder
for Simulink, which lets you use Maple
to develop dynamic system models, then convert them into native Simulink
S-Function blocks.
Now the reverse
is available too, with the newly released BlockImporter
for Simulink. As
its name suggests, this new Maple add-on converts Simulink models into
mathematical equations, so you can use Maple to validate their mathematical
integrity, perform analyses, eliminate algebraic loops, optimise the models,
increase speed of execution and document the whole system, before converting
back to Simulink using BlockBuilder.
The
new Maple Toolbox for
MATLAB – an eagerly awaited integration
of the world’s most widely used symbolic and numeric mathematical
tools – is
currently included with Professional Maple itself (see page 5). For those
of you who use NAG libraries, you can now also get Maple connectivity with
the new Maple-NAG Connector.With this toolbox, your Maple and NAG software
becomes an integrated code development environment to help you create faster,
more reliable models and applications.
Two new geometry
tools have recently been added to the MapleConnect
series – add-on
applications developed by third parties and Maple users. Atlas allows you
to solve a variety of differential geometry problems; the computational
process is highly automated, and Atlas can work with manifolds and mappings.
Geometry Expressions is the world’s first
interactive symbolic geometry system; it expresses the dimensions of your
drawing symbolically.
Maple’s powerful analytical and modelling capabilities
are finding an increasing number of applications in the financial world.
So I’ll
conclude this brief round-up of new Maple add-ons with a mention of the
Maple
Financial Modelling Toolbox, containing over 100 new commands for
quantitative financial modelling and analysis; and a new interactive e-book
in the MapleConnect series, An Introduction
to Derivative Securities. |
(NAG)