Matlab Licensing Information
Current Version Information
Matlab is a powerful package for doing numerical computations. It contains programs for solving linear and differential equations and eigenvalue problems. In addition to the basic matrix computation facilities, Matlab comes with a very advanced Graphics engine, and many Toolboxes to deal with the problems in specialized areas such as Signal Processing, Image Processing, Neural Networks, Statistics, and Simulations.
UITS currently leases Matlab licenses for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms.
License Terms
- Matlab is available to IU faculty and staff for use on university-owned computers.
- Students wishing to obtain their own copy of Matlab should contact the vendor directly.
- Matlab licenses are available for lease on an annual basis. The annual renewal entitles you to any upgrades put out by the vendor at the time you renew your software as well as program maintenance.
- Toolboxes and blocksets are licensed separately from base Matlab. These are also annual leases. We do not license toolboxes without a Matlab license from us. We currently have licenses for the following:
Bioinformatics Toolbox
Communications Toolbox
Control System Toolbox
Curve Fitting Toolbox
Data Acquisition Toolbox1
Database Toolbox
Excel Link1
Fuzzy Logic Toolbox
Image Acquisition Toolbox1
Image Processing Toolbox
Mapping Toolbox
MATLAB Compiler
Neural Network Toolbox
Optimization Toolbox
Partial Differential Equation ToolboxSignal Processing Blockset
Signal Processing Toolbox
Simulink
Simulink Control Design
Spline Toolbox
Statistics Toolbox
Symbolic Math Toolbox
Wavelet Toolbox1 Available only for Windows - Adding toolboxes to a lease of Matlab at any time other than the initial installation or on the renewal date of July 1 will have a service charge added in addition to the fee for the toolbox.
- No vendor-produced documentation is included.
Hardware and Software Requirements
The following are minimum requirements.
System-specific Requirements
| Package | OS version | Chip | RAM | HD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matlab for Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.x Debian 5.x
|
Any Intel or AMD x86 processor supporting SSE2 instruction set Please see the Mathworks site for more on the SSE2 instruction set. |
1024 MB |
1 GB |
| Matlab for Mac OS X | Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) and above with Apple Java for Mac OS X Update 2 and above |
All Intel-based Macs with an Intel Core 2 or later |
1024 MB |
1 GB |
| Matlab 7 for Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit | Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or R2 Windows 7 |
Any Intel or AMD x86 processor supporting SSE2 instruction set Please see the Mathworks site for more on the SSE2 instruction set |
1024 MB |
1 GB |



