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Subsections

- 7.2.1.1 What is TSTOOL ?
- 7.2.1.2 What software is required to run TSTOOL ?
- 7.2.1.3 On which systems does TSTOOL run ?
- 7.2.1.4 What about Octave or other Matlab like programming environments ?

## 7.2.1 Introduction and general information

### 7.2.1.1 What is TSTOOL ?

TSTOOL is a software package for nonlinear time series analysis, though it has a lot of features a general signal analysis package would also have.

### 7.2.1.2 What software is required to run TSTOOL ?

TSTOOL is written in MATLAB, a powerful language for scientific computing, and in C++. Therefore you need MATLAB version 5.2 or higher to run tstool. Unfortunately, MATLAB is not free software !

### 7.2.1.3 On which systems does TSTOOL run ?

TSTOOL does work on Windows 95/98/NT and SGI IRIX 6.5. It does not work on all platforms for which MATLAB is available due to the use of mex-files, which are functions written in C or C++ that extend MATLAB's set of build-in functions. However, these mex-files must be compiled for every platform individually.

### 7.2.1.4 What about Octave or other Matlab like programming environments ?

Octave7.1 is a freely available language for scientific computing that strongly resembles MATLAB. Unfortunately, Octave is not fully compatible to MATLAB, so TSTOOL does not work with Octave.

TSTOOL makes use of the object oriented features of MATLAB. In the current version of Octave (2.0.14) there's no full support of classes. Even if classes will be supported in future, it's not sure wheter TSTOOL will work properly.

There are several other Matlab like programming environments, e.g. Mideva7.2or Scilab7.3. Up to now, it is not possible to use TSTOOL with these packages.

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