Re: Matlab tools boxes

[Carlo de Falco]

On 15 Apr 2009, at 00:29, Griffith Dan-RYZL90 wrote:

> Octave,
>
> We use Matlab from Mathworks.   In conjunction with Matlab we rely  
> on several Mathworks tool boxes including Communications Toolbox,  
> Filter Design Toolbox, Signal Toolbox, Statistics Toolbox, Control  
> Toolbox, and Fixed Point Toolbox to name a few.

> Does Octave provide these same tool boxes?

In "Octave talk" tolboxes are called packages.
"Octave-Forge <http://octave.sf.net> is a central location for the  
collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave",
among the long list of packages you can find there, you might in  
particular be interested in the following:

Communications: http://octave.sourceforge.net/comm
Control: http://octave.sourceforge.net/control
Fixed: http://octave.sourceforge.net/fixed
Signal: http://octave.sourceforge.net/signal
Statistics: http://octave.sourceforge.net/statistics/index.html

as far as I know these packages are also included in the binary  
installer for windows and in some of the main GNU/Linux distributions.

> We are in semiconductor design, would your product be an alternative  
> or is Octave just the base Matlab type product?

Although much care is devoted to try to keep compatibility of the  
interpreted language with matlab,
I think most Octave developers don't regard the project as a "matlab  
replacement"

> Regards
> Dan

HTH
c.