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Is it possible to create a Simulink model that is independent of specific microcontrollers?
For example, in the model, the STM32 block is used for CAN transmission. But if I want to deploy the same model to an Arduino, I have to replace the STM32 block with an Arduino-compatible one.
So, is it possible to create a custom block or abstraction that works across multiple microcontrollers like STM32, PIC32, and Arduino without changing the hardware-specific block each time?
Hello,
I've successfully tested the Processor-in-the-Loop (PIL) workflow in Simulink using a TI F28069M LaunchPad, following the standard examples provided by MathWorks. The PIL block, code generation, and communication all worked without issues.
Now, I’d like to run a similar PIL setup using the Infineon TLE9879 EVALKIT (based on an ARM Cortex-M0), which is not officially supported by Simulink as a target.
I’m wondering if it’s possible to configure PIL manually or via custom workflows. For example:
- Can I create a custom PIL target using Embedded Coder?
- Would I need to port rtiostream manually for communication over UART?
- Could I somehow integrate with Keil µVision (which I use for TLE9879) to build and run the generated code?
- Is there a workaround to simulate PIL behavior using a non-supported board?
My setup:
- Simulink R2024b
- Infineon TLE9879 EVALKIT
- Keil µVision 5 + Infineon Config Wizard
- UART and JTAG interfaces available
The main purpose is to validate control algorithms and measure execution time, not to implement a full HIL system.
Has anyone attempted PIL with a custom or unsupported microcontroller before? Any tips or resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Hey MATLAB enthusiasts!
I just stumbled upon this hilariously effective GitHub repo for image deformation using Moving Least Squares (MLS)—and it’s pure gold for anyone who loves playing with pixels! 🎨✨
- Real-Time Magic ✨
- Precomputes weights and deformation data upfront, making it blazing fast for interactive edits. Drag control points and watch the image warp like rubber! (2)
- Supports affine, similarity, and rigid deformations—because why settle for one flavor of chaos?
- Single-File Simplicity 🧩
- All packed into one clean MATLAB class (mlsImageWarp.m).
- Endless Fun Use Cases 🤹
- Turn your pet’s photo into a Picasso painting.
- "Fix" your friend’s smile... aggressively.
- Animate static images with silly deformations (1).
Try the Demo!
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Sto tentando inutilmente di salvare il valore dell'enegia che consumo ogni giorno nel field5 di questo canale: https://thingspeak.mathworks.com/channels/2851490 , ma inutilemte in quanto vengono visualizzati sempre e solo 2 dati anche se ho impostato days=30. Ho provato ad aumentare a 365 ma senza variazioni. Come mai?
I saw this on Reddit and thought of the past mini-hack contests. We have a few folks here who can do something similar with MATLAB.
I had an error in the web version Matlab, so I exited and came back in, and this boy was plotted.
Bom dia se alguém puder me ajudar, meu código abaixo, não estou conseguintdo conectar o meu Esp8266 ao ThingSpeak, o erro tá na conexão. Estou usando o MicroPython e NodeMCU na plataforma Pytohn o sistema operacional Ubuntu 20
# DHT11 -> ESP8266/ESP32
# 1(Vcc) -> 3v3
# 2(Data) -> GPIO12
# 4(Gnd) -> Gnd
import time, network, machine
from dht import DHT11
from machine import Pin
from umqtt.simple import MQTTClient
print("Iniciando...")
dht = DHT11(Pin(12, Pin.IN, Pin.PULL_UP))
estacao = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
estacao.active(True)
estacao.connect('xxxxxxx', 'xxxxxxxxx')
while estacao.isconnected() == False:
machine.idle()
print('Conexao realizada.')
print(estacao.ifconfig())
SERVIDOR = "mqtt.thingspeak.com"
CHANNEL_ID = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
WRITE_API_KEY = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
topico = "channels/" + CHANNEL_ID + "/publish/" + WRITE_API_KEY
cliente = MQTTClient("umqtt_client", SERVIDOR)
try:
while True:
dht.measure()
temp = dht.temperature()
umid = dht.humidity()
print('Temperatura: %3.1f °C' %temp)
print('Umidade: %3.1f %%' %umid)
conteudo = "field1=" + str(temp) + "&field2=" + str(umid)
print ('Conectando a ThingSpeak...')
cliente.connect()
cliente.publish(topico, conteudo)
cliente.disconnect()
print ('Envio realizado.')
time.sleep(600.0)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
estacao.disconnect()
estacao.active(False)
print("Fim.")
*****************************************************************************************************
No shell aparece como resposta:
MPY: soft reboot
Iniciando...
Conexao realizada.
('192.168.0.23', '255.255.255.0', '192.168.0.1', '8.8.8.8')
Temperatura: 29.0 °C
Umidade: 63.0 %
Conectando a ThingSpeak...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 38, in <module>
File "umqtt/simple.py", line 67, in connect
OSError: -2
linha 38 é cliente.connect()
It seems like the financial news is always saying the stock market is especially volatile now. But is it really? This code will show you the daily variation from the prior day. You can see that the average daily change from one day to the next is 0.69%. So any change in the stock market from the prior day less than about 0.7% or 1% is just normal "noise"/typical variation. You can modify the code to adjust the starting date for the analysis. Data file (Excel workbook) is attached (hopefully - I attached it twice but it's not showing up yet).
% Program to plot the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1928 to May 2025, and compute the standard deviation.
% Data available for download at https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/history?p=%5EDJI
% Just set the Time Period, then find and click the download link, but you ned a paid version of Yahoo.
%
% If you have a subscription for Microsoft Office 365, you can also get historical stock prices.
% Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/stockhistory-function-1ac8b5b3-5f62-4d94-8ab8-7504ec7239a8#:~:text=The%20STOCKHISTORY%20function%20retrieves%20historical,Microsoft%20365%20Business%20Premium%20subscription.
% For example put this in an Excel Cell
% =STOCKHISTORY("^DJI", "1/1/2000", "5/10/2025", 0, 1, 0, 1,2,3,4, 5)
% and it will fill out a table in Excel
%====================================================================================================================
clc; % Clear the command window.
close all; % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
imtool close all; % Close all imtool figures if you have the Image Processing Toolbox.
clear; % Erase all existing variables. Or clearvars if you want.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format long g;
format compact;
fontSize = 14;
filename = 'Dow Jones Industrial Index.xlsx';
data = readtable(filename);
% Date,Close,Open,High,Low,Volume
dates = data.Date;
closing = data.Close;
volume = data.Volume;
% Define start date and stop date
startDate = datetime(2011,1,1)
stopDate = dates(end)
selectedDates = dates > startDate;
% Extract those dates:
dates = dates(selectedDates);
closing = closing(selectedDates);
volume = volume(selectedDates);
% Plot Volume
hFigVolume = figure('Name', 'Daily Volume');
plot(dates, volume, 'b-');
grid on;
xticks(startDate:calendarDuration(5,0,0):stopDate)
title('Dow Jones Industrial Average Volume', 'FontSize', fontSize);
hFig = figure('Name', 'Daily Standard Deviation');
subplot(3, 1, 1);
plot(dates, closing, 'b-');
xticks(startDate:calendarDuration(5,0,0):stopDate)
drawnow;
grid on;
caption = sprintf('Dow Jones Industrial Average from %s through %s', dates(1), dates(end));
title(caption, 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Get the average change from one trading day to the next.
diffs = 100 * abs(closing(2:end) - closing(1:end-1)) ./ closing(1:end-1);
subplot(3, 1, 2);
averageDailyChange = mean(diffs)
% Looks pretty noisy so let's smooth it for a nicer display.
numWeeks = 4;
diffs = sgolayfilt(diffs, 2, 5*numWeeks+1);
plot(dates(2:end), diffs, 'b-');
grid on;
xticks(startDate:calendarDuration(5,0,0):stopDate)
hold on;
line(xlim, [averageDailyChange, averageDailyChange], 'Color', 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
ylabel('Percentage', 'FontSize', fontSize);
caption = sprintf('Day-to-Day Change Percentage. Average Daily Change (from prior day) = %.2f%%', averageDailyChange);
title(caption, 'FontSize', fontSize);
drawnow;
% Get the stddev over a 5 trading day window.
sd = stdfilt(closing, ones(5, 1));
% Get it relative to the magnitude.
sd = sd ./ closing * 100;
averageVariation = mean(sd)
numWeeks = 2;
% Looks pretty noisy so let's smooth it for a nicer display.
sd = sgolayfilt(sd, 2, 5*numWeeks+1);
% Plot it.
subplot(3, 1, 3);
plot(dates, sd, 'b-');
grid on;
xticks(startDate:calendarDuration(5,0,0):stopDate)
hold on;
line(xlim, [averageVariation, averageVariation], 'Color', 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
ylabel('Percentage', 'FontSize', fontSize);
caption = sprintf('Weekly Standard Deviation, Averaged Over %d Weeks (%d trading days). Mean SD = %.2f', ...
numWeeks, 5*numWeeks+1, averageVariation);
title(caption, 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Maximize figure window.
g = gcf;
g.WindowState = 'maximized';
I want to use Simulink for model-based development of the TC3XX series development board, but I am not sure about the development process and toolchain? Is there a free toolchain available for me to use? Do you have a detailed development tutorial?
I have a pressure vs. time plot resulting from the input of an elastic wave, which I obtained from an Abaqus simulation. So, I have access to all the data. Now, I want to convert this time-domain graph into a frequency-domain graph using FFT in MATLAB.
I came across a code through ChatGPT, but I’m not fully confident in relying on it. Could anyone kindly clarify whether the formulas used for FFT in MATLAB are universal for all types of signals? Or is there a more effective and reliable method I should consider for this purpose?
Hi guys!
Im doing a project where i need to simulate a ship connected to the grid. I have a grid->converter AC-DC-AC -> dynamic load. My converter has to keep the voltage consistent and what changes is the current. Can somebody help me?
Hello ThingSpeak Community,
I have an energy meter sending data of energy consumed in 4 rooms in hexadecimal values to Sigfox and I was trying to decode the payload and route it to ThingSpeak.
All the datas are sent at the same time.
But ThingSpeak only receives 1 of them and plots them.
However, the rest 3 are missing. Is this because I am trying the free version ?
Would the payed version be capable of receiving all the 4 messages ?
Hi! I'm Joseff and along with being a student in chemical engineering, one of my great passions is language-learning. I learnt something really cool recently about Catalan (a romance language closely related to Valencian that's spoken in Andorra, Catalonia, and parts of Spain) — and that is how speakers tell the time.
While most European languages stick to the standard minutes-past / minutes-to between hours, Catalan does something really quite special, with a focus on the quarters (quarts [ˈkwarts]). To see what I mean, take a look at this clock made by Penguin___Lover on Instructables :
If you want to tell the time in Catalan, you should refer to the following hour (the one that's still to come), and how many minutes have passed or will pass for the closest quarter (sometimes half-quarter / mig quart [ˈmit͡ʃ kwart]) — clear as mud? It's definitely one of the more difficult things to wrap your head around as a learner. But fear not, with the power of MATLAB, we'll understand in no time!
To make a tool to tell the time in Catalan, the first thing we need to do is extract the current time into its individual hours, minutes and seconds*
function catalanTime = quinahora()
% Get the current time
[hours, minutes, seconds] = hms(datetime("now"));
% Adjust hours to 12-hour format
catalanHour = mod(hours-1, 12)+1;
nextHour = mod(hours, 12)+1;
Then to defining the numbers in catalan. It's worth noting that because the hours are feminine and the minutes are masculine, the words for 1 and 2 is different too (this is not too weird as languages go, in fact for my native Welsh there's a similar pattern between 2 and 4).
% Define the numbers in Catalan
catNumbers.masc = ["un", "dos", "tres", "quatre", "cinc"];
catNumbers.fem = ["una", "dues", "tres", "quatre",...
"cinc", "sis", "set", "vuit",...
"nou", "deu", "onze", "dotze"];
Okay, now it's starting to get serious! I mentioned before that this traditional time telling system is centred around the quarters — and that is true, but you'll also hear about the mig de quart (half of a quarter) * which is why we needed that seconds' precision from earlier!
% Define 07:30 intervals around the clock from 0 to 60
timeMarks = 0:15/2:60;
timeFraction = minutes + seconds / 60; % get the current position
[~, idx] = min(abs(timeFraction - timeMarks)); % extract the closest timeMark
mins = round(timeFraction - timeMarks(idx)); % round to the minute
After getting the fraction of the hour that we'll use later to tell the time, we can look into how many minutes it differs from that set time, using menys (less than) and i (on top of). There's also a bit of an AM/PM distinction, so you can use this function and know whether it's morning or night!
% Determine the minute string (diffString logic)
diffString = '';
if mins < 0
diffString = sprintf(' menys %s', catNumbers.masc(abs(mins)));
elseif mins > 0
diffString = sprintf(' i %s', catNumbers.masc(abs(mins)));
end
% Determine the part of the day (partofDay logic)
if hours < 12
partofDay = 'del matí'; % Morning (matí)
elseif hours < 18
partofDay = 'de la tarda'; % Afternoon (tarda)
elseif hours < 21
partofDay = 'del vespre'; % Evening (vespre)
else
partofDay = 'de la nit'; % Night (nit)
end
% Determine 'en punt' (o'clock exactly) based on minutes
enPunt = '';
if mins == 0
enPunt = ' en punt';
end
Now all that's left to do is define the main part of the string, which is which mig quart we are in. Since we extracted the index idx earlier as the closest timeMark, it's just a matter of indexing into this after the strings have been defined.
% Create the time labels
labels = {sprintf('són les %s%s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(catalanHour), diffString, enPunt, partofDay), ...
sprintf('és mig quart de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('és un quart de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('és un quart i mig de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('són dos quarts de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('són dos quarts i mig de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('són tres quarts de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('són tres quarts i mig de %s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, partofDay), ...
sprintf('són les %s%s%s %s', catNumbers.fem(nextHour), diffString, enPunt, partofDay)};
catalanTime = labels{idx};
Then we need to do some clean up — the definite article les / la and the preposition de don't play nice with un and the initial vowel in onze, so there's a little replacement lookup here.
% List of old and new substrings for replacement
oldStrings = {'les un', 'són la una', 'de una', 'de onze'};
newStrings = {'la una', 'és la una', 'd''una', 'd''onze'};
% Apply replacements using a loop
for i = 1:length(oldStrings)
catalanTime = strrep(catalanTime, oldStrings{i}, newStrings{i});
end
end
quinahora()
So, can you work out what time it was when I made this post? 🤔
And how do you tell the time in your language?
Fins després!
tiledlayout(4,1);
% Plot "L" (y = 1/(x+1), for x > -1)
x = linspace(-0.9, 2, 100); % Avoid x = -1 (undefined)
y =1 ./ (x+1) ;
nexttile;
plot(x, y, 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
xlim([-10,10])
% Plot "O" (x^2 + y^2 = 9)
theta = linspace(0, 2*pi, 100);
x = 3 * cos(theta);
y = 3 * sin(theta);
nexttile;
plot(x, y, 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
axis equal;
% Plot "V" (y = -2|x|)
x = linspace(-1, 1, 100);
y = 2 * abs(x);
nexttile;
plot(x, y, 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
axis equal;
% Plot "E" (x = -3 |sin(y)|)
y = linspace(-pi, pi, 100);
x = -3 * abs(sin(y));
nexttile;
plot(x, y, 'r', 'LineWidth', 2);
axis equal;
Check out the result of "emoji matrix" multiplication below.
- vector multiply vector:
a = ["😁","😁","😁"]
b = ["😂";
"😂"
"😂"]
c = a*b
d = b*a
- matrix multiply matrix:
matrix1 = [
"😀", "😃";
"😄", "😁"]
matrix2 = [
"😆", "😅";
"😂", "🤣"]
resutl = matrix1*matrix2
enjoy yourself!
For Valentine's day this year I tried to do something a little more than just the usual 'Here's some MATLAB code that draws a picture of a heart' and focus on how to share MATLAB code. TL;DR, here's my advice
- Put the code on GitHub. (Allows people to access and collaborate on your code)
- Set up 'Open in MATLAB Online' in your GitHub repo (Allows people to easily run it)
I used code by @Zhaoxu Liu / slandarer and others to demonstrate. I think that those two steps are the most impactful in that they get you from zero to one but If I were to offer some more advice for research code it would be
3. Connect the GitHub repo to File Exchange (Allows MATLAB users to easily find it in-product).
4. Get a Digitial Object Identifier (DOI) using something like Zenodo. (Allows people to more easily cite your code)
There is still a lot more you can do of course but if everyone did this for any MATLAB code relating to a research paper, we'd be in a better place I think.
Here's the article: On love and research software: Sharing code with your Valentine » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink
What do you think?
I got thoroughly nerd-sniped by this xkcd, leading me to wonder if you can use MATLAB to figure out the dice roll for any given (rational) probability. Well, obviously you can. The question is how. Answer: lots of permutation calculations and convolutions.
In the original xkcd, the situation described by the player has a probability of 2/9. Looking up the plot, row 2 column 9, shows that you need 16 or greater on (from the legend) 1d4+3d6, just as claimed.
If you missed the bit about convolutions, this is a super-neat trick
[v,c] = dicedist([4 6 6 6]);
bar(v,c)
% Probability distribution of dice given by d
function [vals,counts] = dicedist(d)
% d is a vector of number of sides
n = numel(d); % number of dice
% Use convolution to count the number of ways to get each roll value
counts = 1;
for k = 1:n
counts = conv(counts,ones(1,d(k)));
end
% Possible values range from n to sum(d)
maxtot = sum(d);
vals = n:maxtot;
end
I noticed recently that my data is no longer updating on thingspeak again. Is there a connectivity issues with thingspeak
