Matlab Toolbox availability
Introduction
Matlab can be augmented by a number of toolboxes and other utilities such as the Matlab compiler. iSolutions licenses a number of these products from Mathworks on behalf of the University community.
Note that we have two distinct Matlab licences: for teaching and research. Matlab can be started with either of these licenses from the menu on iSolutions public workstations. Both licences access the same installation on iSolutions public workstations, so functionality is the same, but which toolboxes are provided and the maximum number of concurrent users for each toolbox depends on the licence. In general, licences on the teaching licence are cheaper to provide in bulk.
The intended usage is:
Teaching - This license should be used for teaching and student project work whenever possible.
It MUST NOT be used by staff or postgraduates for research purposes.
Research - Primarily intended for research work, but may be used for teaching if the required toolboxes are not available on the teaching licence, or in the unlikley event of their being insufficient teaching licences available.
Course organisers who need to use toolboxes which are only available from the research licence should note that not all the listed licences are guaranteed to be available for use at the time of a class.
Toolbox Availability
The following tables list the toolboxes and other Mathworks products available on each licence. The Users column indicates the maximum number of concurrent users that can access each product on that licence.
| Mathworks Product | Users |
|---|---|
| Matlab | 210 |
| Image Processing Toolbox | 110 |
| Optimization Toolbox | 50 |
| Signal Processing Toolbox | 50 |
| Statistics Toolbox | 110 |
| Mathworks Product | Users |
|---|---|
| Matlab | 410 |
| Simulink | 100 |
| Bioinformatics Toolbox | 5 |
| Communications Toolbox | 30 |
| Control System Toolbox | 60 |
| Curve Fitting Toolbox | 11 |
| Data Acquisition Toolbox | 25 |
| Database Toolbox | 5 |
| Dial and Gauge Blockset | 5 |
| Econometrics Toolbox | 2 |
| Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox | 3 |
| Filter Design Toolbox | 10 |
| Financial Toolbox | 5 |
| Fuzzy Logic Toolbox | 5 |
| Gauges Blockset | 5 |
| Genetic Algorithm & Direct Search Toolbox | 5 |
| Image Acquisition Toolbox | 10 |
| Image Processing Toolbox | 56 |
| Instrument Control Toolbox | 5 |
| MATLAB Builder for Java | 1 |
| MATLAB Builder for .NET | 5 |
| MATLAB Builder for Excel | 5 |
| MATLAB Compiler | 7 |
| Mapping Toolbox | 10 |
| Model Predictive Control Toolbox | 5 |
| Neural Network Toolbox | 8 |
| Optimization Toolbox | 30 |
| Parallel Computing Toolbox | 25 |
| Partial Differential Equation Toolbox | 25 |
| Real-Time Workshop | 5 |
| Robust Control Toolbox | 60 |
| Signal Processing Blockset | 5 |
| Signal Processing Toolbox | 102 |
| Simulink Control Design | 60 |
| Spline Toolbox | 10 |
| Statistics Toolbox | 58 |
| Symbolic Math Toolbox | 11 |
| System Identification Toolbox | 60 |
| Virtual Reality Toolbox | 5 |
| Wavelet Toolbox | 10 |
The products on the research licence are also available for installation on university-owned or controlled computers. Instructions on downloading and installing Matlab are available from our software download site. Installations on individual computers will need to be connected to the campus network to be able to contact the licence server. If access to the network is from off campus, via VPN, for example, note that Matlab software can only be used in countries of the European Union under this licence.
Useful Matlab Commands to check toolbox availability
To see a list of all the locally installed Matlab products (including toolboxes) with their version numbers use the command ver within Matlab. Note that the fact that toolbox is installed does not mean there is a licence available.
The license command can be used to determine if a license exists for a given toolbox, eg.
license('test','map_toolbox')
The license command returns 1 if the license exists and 0 if the license does not exist. Use help license for full details
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