diff --git a/src/SDiagonal.jl b/src/SDiagonal.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ff83cef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SDiagonal.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+# Originally contributed by D. Getz (https://github.com/getzdan), M. Schauer
+# at https://github.com/mschauer/Bridge.jl under MIT License
+
+import Base: ==, -, +, *, /, \, abs, real, imag, conj
+
+@generated function scalem(a::StaticMatrix{M,N}, b::StaticVector{N}) where {M, N}
+    expr = vec([:(a[$j,$i]*b[$i]) for j=1:M, i=1:N])
+    :(@_inline_meta; let val1 = ($(expr[1])); similar_type(SMatrix{M,N},typeof(val1))(val1, $(expr[2:end]...)); end)
+end
+@generated function scalem(a::StaticVector{M}, b::StaticMatrix{M, N}) where {M, N}
+    expr = vec([:(b[$j,$i]*a[$j]) for j=1:M, i=1:N])
+    :(@_inline_meta; let val1 = ($(expr[1])); similar_type(SMatrix{M,N},typeof(val1))(val1, $(expr[2:end]...)); end)
+end
+
+struct SDiagonal{N,T} <: StaticMatrix{N,N,T}
+    diag::SVector{N,T}
+    SDiagonal{N,T}(diag::SVector{N,T}) where {N,T} = new(diag)
+end    
+diagtype(::Type{SDiagonal{N,T}}) where {N, T} = SVector{N,T}
+diagtype(::Type{SDiagonal{N}}) where {N} = SVector{N}
+diagtype(::Type{SDiagonal}) = SVector
+
+# this is to deal with convert.jl
+@inline (::Type{SD})(a::AbstractVector) where {SD <: SDiagonal} = SDiagonal(convert(diagtype(SD), a))
+@inline (::Type{SD})(a::Tuple) where {SD <: SDiagonal} = SDiagonal(convert(diagtype(SD), a))
+@inline (::Type{SDiagonal})(a::SVector{N,T}) where {N,T} = SDiagonal{N,T}(a) 
+
+@generated function SDiagonal(a::StaticMatrix{N,N,T}) where {N,T}
+    expr = [:(a[$i,$i]) for i=1:N]
+    :(SDiagonal{N,T}($(expr...)))
+end
+
+convert(::Type{SDiagonal{N,T}}, D::SDiagonal{N,T}) where {N,T} = D
+convert(::Type{SDiagonal{N,T}}, D::SDiagonal{N}) where {N,T} = SDiagonal{N,T}(convert(SVector{N,T}, D.diag))
+
+function getindex(D::SDiagonal{N,T}, i::Int, j::Int) where {N,T}
+    @boundscheck checkbounds(D, i, j)
+    @inbounds return ifelse(i == j, D.diag[i], zero(T))
+end
+
+# avoid linear indexing?
+@propagate_inbounds function getindex(D::SDiagonal{N,T}, k::Int) where {N,T}
+    i, j = ind2sub(size(D), k)
+    D[i,j]
+end
+
+ishermitian(D::SDiagonal{N, T}) where {N,T<:Real} = true
+ishermitian(D::SDiagonal) = all(D.diag .== real(D.diag))
+issymmetric(D::SDiagonal) = true
+isposdef(D::SDiagonal) = all(D.diag .> 0)
+
+factorize(D::SDiagonal) = D
+
+==(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = Da.diag == Db.diag
+-(A::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(-A.diag)
++(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(Da.diag + Db.diag)
+-(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(Da.diag - Db.diag)
+-(A::SDiagonal, B::SMatrix) = eye(typeof(B))*A - B
+
+*(x::T, D::SDiagonal) where {T<:Number} = SDiagonal(x * D.diag)
+*(D::SDiagonal, x::T) where {T<:Number} = SDiagonal(D.diag * x)
+/(D::SDiagonal, x::T) where {T<:Number} = SDiagonal(D.diag / x)
+*(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(Da.diag .* Db.diag)
+*(D::SDiagonal, V::AbstractVector) = D.diag .* V
+*(D::SDiagonal, V::StaticVector) = D.diag .* V
+*(A::StaticMatrix, D::SDiagonal) = scalem(A,D.diag)
+*(D::SDiagonal, A::StaticMatrix) = scalem(D.diag,A)
+\(D::SDiagonal, b::AbstractVector) = D.diag .\ b
+\(D::SDiagonal, b::StaticVector) = D.diag .\ b # catch ambiguity
+
+conj(D::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(conj(D.diag))
+transpose(D::SDiagonal) = D
+ctranspose(D::SDiagonal) = conj(D)
+
+diag(D::SDiagonal) = D.diag
+trace(D::SDiagonal) = sum(D.diag)
+det(D::SDiagonal) = prod(D.diag)
+logdet{N,T<:Real}(D::SDiagonal{N,T}) = sum(log.(D.diag))
+function logdet(D::SDiagonal{N,T}) where {N,T<:Complex} #Make sure branch cut is correct
+    x = sum(log.(D.diag))
+    -pi<imag(x)<pi ? x : real(x)+(mod2pi(imag(x)+pi)-pi)*im
+end
+
+eye(::Type{SDiagonal{N,T}}) where {N,T} = SDiagonal(ones(SVector{N,T}))
+
+expm(D::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(exp.(D.diag))
+logm(D::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(log.(D.diag))
+sqrtm(D::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(sqrt.(D.diag))
+
+\(D::SDiagonal, B::StaticMatrix) = scalem(1 ./ D.diag, B)
+/(B::StaticMatrix, D::SDiagonal) = scalem(1 ./ D.diag, B)
+\(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(Db.diag ./ Da.diag)
+/(Da::SDiagonal, Db::SDiagonal) = SDiagonal(Da.diag ./ Db.diag )
+
+
+@generated function check_singular(D::SDiagonal{N}) where {N}
+    quote
+    Base.Cartesian.@nexprs $N i->(@inbounds iszero(D.diag[i]) && throw(Base.LinAlg.SingularException(i)))
+    end
+end
+
+function inv(D::SDiagonal)
+    check_singular(D)
+    SDiagonal(inv.(D.diag))
+end
+
diff --git a/src/StaticArrays.jl b/src/StaticArrays.jl
index 4b8a6bb5..3547bc71 100644
--- a/src/StaticArrays.jl
+++ b/src/StaticArrays.jl
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import Base: getindex, setindex!, size, similar, vec, show,
              length, convert, promote_op, promote_rule, map, map!, reduce, reducedim, mapreducedim,
              mapreduce, broadcast, broadcast!, conj, transpose, ctranspose,
              hcat, vcat, ones, zeros, eye, one, cross, vecdot, reshape, fill,
-             fill!, det, inv, eig, eigvals, expm, sqrtm, trace, vecnorm, norm, dot, diagm, diag,
-             lu, svd, svdvals, svdfact,
+             fill!, det, logdet, inv, eig, eigvals, expm, logm, sqrtm, trace, diag, vecnorm, norm, dot, diagm, diag,
+             lu, svd, svdvals, svdfact, factorize, ishermitian, issymmetric, isposdef,
              sum, diff, prod, count, any, all, minimum,
              maximum, extrema, mean, copy, rand, randn, randexp, rand!, randn!,
              randexp!, normalize, normalize!, read, read!, write
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ export Scalar, SArray, SVector, SMatrix
 export MArray, MVector, MMatrix
 export FieldVector
 export SizedArray, SizedVector, SizedMatrix
+export SDiagonal
 
 export Size, Length
 
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ include("MArray.jl")
 include("MVector.jl")
 include("MMatrix.jl")
 include("SizedArray.jl")
+include("SDiagonal.jl")
 
 include("abstractarray.jl")
 include("indexing.jl")
diff --git a/test/SDiagonal.jl b/test/SDiagonal.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..030898d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/SDiagonal.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+@testset "SDiagonal" begin
+    @testset "Constructors" begin
+        @test SDiagonal{1,Int64}((1,)).diag === SVector{1,Int64}((1,))
+        @test SDiagonal{1,Float64}((1,)).diag === SVector{1,Float64}((1,))
+     
+        @test SDiagonal{4,Float64}((1, 1.0, 1, 1)).diag.data === (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
+        @test SDiagonal{4}((1, 1.0, 1, 1)).diag.data === (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
+        @test SDiagonal((1, 1.0, 1, 1)).diag.data === (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
+
+        # Bad input
+        @test_throws Exception SMatrix{1,Int}()
+        @test_throws Exception SMatrix{2,Int}((1,))
+
+        # From SMatrix
+        @test SDiagonal(SMatrix{2,2,Int}((1,2,3,4))).diag.data === (1,4)
+        
+        @test SDiagonal{1,Int}(SDiagonal{1,Float64}((1,))).diag[1] === 1
+
+    end
+
+    @testset "Methods" begin
+    
+        @test StaticArrays.scalem(@SMatrix([1 1 1;1 1 1; 1 1 1]), @SVector [1,2,3]) === @SArray [1 2 3; 1 2 3; 1 2 3]
+        @test StaticArrays.scalem(@SVector([1,2,3]),@SMatrix [1 1 1;1 1 1; 1 1 1])' === @SArray [1 2 3; 1 2 3; 1 2 3]
+    
+        m = SDiagonal(@SVector [11, 12, 13, 14])
+        
+    
+        
+        @test diag(m) === m.diag
+        
+     
+        m2 = diagm([11, 12, 13, 14])
+     
+        @test logdet(m) == logdet(m2)
+        @test logdet(im*m) ≈ logdet(im*m2)
+        @test det(m) == det(m2)
+        @test trace(m) == trace(m2)
+        @test logm(m) == logm(m2)
+        @test expm(m) == expm(m2)
+        @test sqrtm(m) == sqrtm(m2)
+     
+        
+        @test isimmutable(m) == true
+
+        @test m[1,1] === 11
+        @test m[2,2] === 12
+        @test m[3,3] === 13
+        @test m[4,4] === 14
+        
+        for i in 1:4
+            for j in 1:4
+                i == j || @test m[i,j] === 0
+            end
+        end
+        
+        @test_throws Exception m[5,5]
+        
+        @test_throws Exception m[1,5]
+        
+    
+        @test size(m) === (4, 4)
+        @test size(typeof(m)) === (4, 4)
+        @test size(SDiagonal{4}) === (4, 4)
+
+        @test size(m, 1) === 4
+        @test size(m, 2) === 4
+        @test size(typeof(m), 1) === 4
+        @test size(typeof(m), 2) === 4
+
+        @test length(m) === 4*4
+
+        @test_throws Exception m[1] = 1
+        
+        b = @SVector [2,-1,2,1]
+        b2 = Vector(b)
+  
+        
+        @test m*b ==  @SVector [22,-12,26,14]
+        @test (b'*m)' ==  @SVector [22,-12,26,14]
+        
+        @test m\b == m2\b
+        
+        @test b'/m == b'/m2
+        @test_throws Exception b/m
+        @test m*m == m2*m
+        
+        @test ishermitian(m) == ishermitian(m2)
+        @test ishermitian(m/2)
+        
+        @test isposdef(m) == isposdef(m2)
+        @test issymmetric(m) == issymmetric(m2)
+        
+        @test (2*m/2)' == m
+        @test 2m == m + m
+        @test m*0 == m - m
+        
+        @test m*inv(m) == m/m == m\m == eye(SDiagonal{4,Float64})
+        
+        
+        
+        
+    end
+end
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diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 7e597d1e..a4414f45 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ include("FieldVector.jl")
 include("Scalar.jl")
 include("SUnitRange.jl")
 include("SizedArray.jl")
+include("SDiagonal.jl")
+
 include("custom_types.jl")
 
 include("core.jl")