Hi fellow CASPERians, This is a question that comes up periodically. At SAO we are now paying full fare for Matlab licenses so the cost impact of an imperfect understanding can be significant.
The latest MSSGE wiki page is: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.5_and_Matlab_2012b However this page does not mention Matlab optional components (historically termed toolboxes and blocksets). There are clues in an earlier setup page: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Toolflow_Setup from which it appears one needs something like: Fixed-Point Toolbox Signal Processing Blockset Signal Processing Toolbox Simulink Fixed Point Each time I buy a new license I iterate on these components with the Matlab distributer. The terminology changes year by year and I am currently being quoted on the following components, in addition to the base Matlab and Simulink distributions: SIGNAL PROCESSING TOOLBOX, V2013A SIMULINK FIXED POINT, V2012B DSP SYSTEM TOOLBOX, V2013A FIXED-POINT DESIGNER TOOLBOX, V2013A, (sorry about the all-caps which pasted in directly from the quotation). So it is still four components, but the names have changed. The term blockset seems to have evolved out in favor of toolbox, one of the "signal processing"s has morphed into "DSP", and the fixed point toolbox now has "designer". Appropriately enough the price for this latter "designer" component alone has more than doubled in a year to over $2k per seat. Having set the scene, my two questions are: 1. Are we ordering the right components? 2. Do we really need all these components? (At one point I seem to recall hearing the fixed point stuff is to some extent optional, though the ability to simulate properly at the Simulink level is important to us.) Subject to confirmation from the tool flow experts, I will be happy to update the wiki notes with current information. Thanks, Jonathan
