Product Release Announcement Automotive Embedded Systems NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT – version 1.8.0     The Automotive Embedded Systems, Model-Based Design Tools Team at NXP Semiconductors, is pleased to announce the release of the Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT version 1.8.0. This product allows fast prototyping of algorithms for RADAR directly from MATLAB environment via SPT bit-exact Simulator.   Target audience: This product is part of the Automotive SW – Model-Based Design Toolbox.   FlexNet Location: https://nxp.flexnetoperations.com/control/frse/download?element=4014038   Technical Support: NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT issues will be tracked through the NXP Model-Based Design Tools Community space. https://community.nxp.com/community/mbdt   Release Content: Update the MATLAB SPT Toolbox to support the latest versions for the SPT 3.x variants. The new core simulator version is now SPT Simulator 1.3.4. Add support for SPT 3.8, which includes also support for the new FLEX PDMA compression. Add the possibility to set the LFSR value for PDMA instruction. Support for MATLAB versions: Windows: R2017b or newer Linux: R2018b or newer More than 310+ examples showcasing the supported functionalities. For more details, features, and how to use the new functionalities, please refer to the Release Notes and Quick Start Guides documents attached.   MATLAB® Integration: The NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox extends the MATLAB® experience by allowing customers to evaluate and use NXP SPT Accelerator from NXP’s Radar Processors. NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT version 1.8.0 is fully integrated with MATLAB® environment.   Target Audience: This release is intended for technology demonstration, evaluation purposes, and prototyping with S32R microprocessors and various flavors of SPT 2.x and 3.x for: All users for SPT 2.x and 3.x Bit-Exact SPT Simulator versions NXP customers that want to create their custom SPT kernels, for reasons like data type precision impact, algorithm performance, proprietary algorithms, protection of SW IP, to cover more scenarios, or may simply wish to start with a radar algorithm development from the MATLAB environment.   Useful Resources: Examples, Trainings, and Support: https://community.nxp.com/t5/MBDT-for-RADAR/bd-p/mbdt-for-radar?tid=communityMBDT      

    Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT - 1.7.1   Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT allows fast prototyping of algorithms that handle sampled RADAR signals directly from MATLAB environment via SPT bit-exact Simulator.   Content (updates relative to previous version) For PDMA instruction, the list of compression modes for SPT 3.4 and SPT 3.5 was changed: Renamed compressions: CP4Q to CP4D CP4Q_FMTA to CP4D_FMTA CP4Q_FMTB to CP4D_FMTB CP8D_FMTA to CP8_FMTA CP8D_FMTB to CP8_FMTB CP8D_FMTC to CP8_FMTC Added support of compression modes: CP4 CP4_FMTA CP4_FMTB CP6 CP16 CP4_FLEX Removed compression mode CP32_FMTB, because is not supported for SPT 3.4 and SPT 3.5 For PDMA instruction, it was added the possibility to set the LFSR value   NOTE1: Both linux and windows toolboxes are attached to the article. They are shared as zip files, and before installing you must unzip them.    

      Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT - 1.3.0     Austin, Texas, USA November 11 th , 2019 Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT allows fast prototyping of algorithms that handle sampled RADAR signals directly from MATLAB environment via SPT bit-exact Simulator.   DownloadLocation: https://www.nxp.com/webapp/swlicensing/sso/downloadSoftware.sp?catid=MBDSPT   Activation link https://www.nxp.com/webapp/swlicensing/sso/downloadSoftware.sp?catid=MBDSPT     Release Content (updates relative to previous version) Support for the flowing instructions: ADD FIR HIST IRDX2 IRDX4 MAXS PDMA RDX2 RDX4 SCP SORT (SPT 3.0 only) SUB VMT WIN   Add support for Adaptive Scaling for RDX2/RDX4/IRDX2/IRDX4 instructions Add LSFR feature for the PDMA instruction Update SPT 2.0, 2.5 and 2.8 bit exact simulator to version 3.0.0 Update SPT 3.0 bit exact simulator to version 2.0.19. To enable SPT 3.0 simulator a special license is needed. Please contact the NXP support to get access to such license Integrate Help and Examples into MATLAB documentation framework. Opening the MATLAB Help will show new section of “Supplemental Software” for Model-Based Design for SPT Toolbox.              To enable SPT 3.0 simulator a special license is needed. Please contact the NXP support to get access to such license. Redesign all SPT Toolbox examples and added a new standalone RADAR application to showcase object detection capabilities with RADAR SPT instruction: range FFT, doppler FFT, beamforming and peak search                

        Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT - 1.2.0             Austin, Texas, USA May 27 th , 2019 Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT allows fast prototyping of algorithms that handle sampled RADAR signals directly from MATLAB environment via SPT bit-exact Simulator.   DownloadLocation: https://www.nxp.com/webapp/swlicensing/sso/downloadSoftware.sp?catid=MBDSPT   Activation link https://www.nxp.com/webapp/swlicensing/sso/downloadSoftware.sp?catid=MBDSPT   Technical Support NXP SPT Toolbox issues are tracked through NXP Model-Based Design Tools Community space.   Release Content (updates relative to previous version) Support for the flowing instructions: ADD FIR HIST IRDX2 IRDX4 MAXS PDMA RDX2 RDX4 SCP SORT (SPT 3.0 only) SUB VMT WIN   Update SPT 2.0, 2.5 and 2.8 bit exact simulator to version 2.0.4 Update SPT 3.0 bit exact simulator to version 2.0.10 To change between different versions of the SPT, use switch_spt instruction. Due to MATLAB internal constraints only one version of the SPT bit-exact simulator can be active. Support for MATLAB 64-bit (R2017b to R2019a). The SPT 2.x and 3.0 Simulator run-time is limited to 64-bit only. Integrated Help and Examples into MATLAB documentation framework. Opening the MATLAB Help will show new section of “Supplemental Software” for Model-Based Design for SPT Toolbox. Improved mechanism for NXP toolbox license checking. All versions of SPT 2.x are using the same license as previous released. The license is free of charge and can be acquired directly from your NXP Software Account. To enable SPT 3.0 simulator a special license is needed. Please contact the NXP support to get access to such license.          

      Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0/2.5 - 2018.R1     Austin, Texas, USA September 24 th , 2018 The Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors’ Model-Based Design Tools Team at NXP Semiconductors, is pleased to announce the release of the Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0/2.5 2018.R1. This release allows fast prototyping of algorithms that handle sampled RADAR signals directly from MATLAB environment via SPT bit-exact Simulator.   FlexNet Location: https://nxp.flexnetoperations.com/control/frse/download?element=10444327   Activation link https://nxp.flexnetoperations.com/control/frse/download?element=10444327     Technical Support NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT issues are tracked through NXP Model-Based Design Tools Community space. https://community.nxp.com/community/mbdt/mbdt-for-radar   Release Content Add support for SPT 2.5 instructions: All SPT 2.0 instructions are now supported in SPT 2.5 format New SWITCH command added to allow SPT mode change between 2.0 and 2.5 versions sptVersionOut  = switch_mex(sptVersionIn). Posible values for the sptVersionIn are: 20 for SPT 2.0 version 25 for SPT 2.5 version Any other input will trigger an error message Improved mechanism for handling the toolbox licensing checking. This feature increases the SPT instructions execution speed by 3x compared to previous release. The license is free of charge and can be acquired directly from your NXP Software Account. Integrate the bit-exact SPT Simulator 2.0.0 released on July 04, 2018   For more details, features and how to use the new functionalities, please refer to the SPT2.X Toolbox User Guide document attached.   MATLAB® Integration The NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox extends the MATLAB® experience by allowing customers to evaluate and use NXP’s S32R MCUs out-of-the-box with: NXP Support Package for S32R Installer Guide Add-on allows users to install NXP solution directly from the Mathwork’s website or directly from MATLAB IDE. The Support Package provide a step-by-step guide for installation and verification. NXP Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0 and 2.5 2018.R1 is fully integrated with MATLAB® environment in terms of installation, documentation, help and examples;   Target Audience This release (2018.R1) is intended for: Internal NXP RADAR SDK developers for writing MATLAB models using a bit-exact SPT Simulator that can be shared with external customers as MATLAB reference designs. NXP customers that want to write their own SPT kernels for reasons like: performance, secret “sauce” algorithms, protection of SW IP, cover more scenarios or may simply wish to start with RADAR algorithm development from MATLAB environment. RADAR SDK Users for running the bit-exact MATLAB models of the SPT kernels  

This is a short presentation about NXP's Model-Based Design Toolbox RADAR Signal Processing Toolbox that covers the topics like: - high level RADAR processing flow - NXP RADAR solution - NXP MATLAB Toolbox for fast RADAR algorithm developement

This video shows how to download, install and configure the  NXP's Model-Based Design Toolbox for RADAR  The main topics discussed are: - how to install the toolbox using the MATLAB Add-On - how to generate a license (free-of-cost) - how to execute commands for RADAR Simulator  NOTE: Chinese viewers can watch the video on YOUKU using this link 注意：中国观众可以使用此链接观看YOUKU上的视频

In this video we demonstrate how to use the NXP's Model-Based Design Toolbox for RADAR to detect the objects in front of the radar, the distance to them and their relative velocity.   NOTE: Chinese viewers can watch the video on YOUKU using this link 注意：中国观众可以使用此链接观看YOUKU上的视频

        Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0/2.5 v1.0.0         December 15, 2017 Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0/2.5 v1.0.0    This toolbox enables RADAR application development directly from MATLAB using a bit-exact NXP's Simulator for S32R specialized hardware. The following diagram shows the high level execution flows supported.  Check this article to get familiar with the toolbox: RADAR Systems Design and Programming Made Simple with NXP’s Model-Based Design Toolbox  Main Features: Support for SPT commands: ADD FIR HIST IRDX2 IRDX4 MAXS PDMA (Compression/Decompression) RDX2 RDX4 SCP SUB VMT WIN Support for MATLAB on 32-bit and 64-bit (R2015aSP1, R2016a, R2016b, R2017a, R2017b) Integrated help and examples into MATLAB documentation framework NOTE:  A license is required to run toolbox (free of charge). Download NXP’s Model-Based Design Toolbox for SPT 2.0/2.5 v1.0.0: http://www.nxp.com/webapp/swlicensing/sso/downloadSoftware.sp?catid=MBDSPT Getting Started Videos:     Support: NXP's Model-Based Design Toolbox Community