Phased Array System Toolbox
Design and simulate phased array and beamforming systems
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Phased Array System Toolbox provides tools for designing and simulating phased array and beamforming systems for wireless communication, radar, sonar, and acoustic applications. You can design multibeam and electronically steerable antennas by configuring array geometries, including subarrays, and adjusting element parameters. You can synthesize beamforming patterns through optimization and AI techniques.
For communication systems like 5G, 5G-advanced, SATCOM, and WLAN, the toolbox provides algorithms for simulating hybrid and digital beamforming architectures for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave systems. You can simulate multipath fading environments, model reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), and generate signal waveforms.
For radar, sonar, and acoustic systems, the toolbox includes pulsed waveforms and algorithms for monostatic and multistatic topologies, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), direction of arrival (DOA) for localization, matched filtering, and image formation.
Phased Array Design and Analysis
Model and analyze the behavior of active or passive electronically scanned arrays (AESA or PESA), including the array geometry, subarrays, custom antenna elements, polarization, and perturbed elements.
Beamforming and DOA Estimation
Model narrowband and broadband digital beamforming algorithms. Suppress interferences with adaptive beamformers. Use STAP techniques to remove clutter. Estimate DOA of incident signals. Simulate nearfield beamforming with spherical wavefronts.
Waveform Design and Signal Synthesis
Design pulsed waveforms, continuous waveforms, and matched filters. Analyze waveform ambiguity functions. Synthesize baseband IQ data for signals and target returns for monostatic and bistatic arrays.
MIMO Wireless Communications
Model multibeam and electronically steerable antennas for wireless and satellite communication systems. Partition beamforming architectures into baseband and RF subsystems.
Radar and EW Systems
Simulate end-to-end radar systems. Process parameters of returned signals with DOA and time of arrival (TOA) estimates to improve localization of targets.
Sonar and Spatial Audio
Model sonar systems from source to receiver including the effects of target reflection, multipath propagation, and noise interference. Simulate beamforming for spatial audio systems.
Detection, Range, and Doppler Estimation
Perform matched filtering, stretch processing, pulse compression, pulse integration, range and Doppler estimation, and constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection.
Algorithm Acceleration and Code Generation
Speed up simulations and applications with generated C/C++, or with dataflow domains in Simulink. Follow reference workflows to generate HDL code from Simulink models.
Localization and Positioning
Estimate the locations of targets and devices with a combination of time of arrival (TOA), time difference of arrival (TDOA), time sum of arrival (TSOA), and angle of arrival (AOA) techniques for wireless networks as well as monostatic and multistatic radar systems.
Product Resources:
“Hybrid beamforming system design for 5G massive MIMO arrays using MATLAB, Phased Array System Toolbox, and 5G Toolbox helped us in evaluating various hardware options as well as their performance in realistic 5G scenarios.”
Phased Array System Toolbox FAQs
The toolbox lets users design and analyze antenna arrays for wireless communication (including 5G, 5G-advanced, SATCOM, WLAN), radar, sonar, and acoustic applications.
Yes, you can configure conformal array geometries with custom antennas elements and subarrays, and model active or passive electronically scanned arrays (AESA or PESA) using tools like the Sensor Array Analyzer app.
The toolbox supports hybrid and digital beamforming architectures for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave systems, and allows you to design multibeam and electronically steerable antennas by synthesizing beamforming patterns through optimization and AI techniques.
Yes, the toolbox includes algorithms for space-time adaptive processing (STAP), direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, matched filtering, pulse compression, range and Doppler estimation, and constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection.
Yes, you can speed up simulations and generate C/C++ code, use dataflow domains in Simulink, or follow reference workflows to generate HDL code from Simulink models.
You can design pulsed waveforms, continuous waveforms, and matched filters, analyze waveform ambiguity functions, and synthesize baseband IQ data for signals and target returns for monostatic and bistatic arrays.
Yes, you can model sonar systems from source to receiver including the effects of target reflection, multipath propagation, and noise interference, as well as simulate beamforming for spatial audio systems.
Yes, you can simulate multipath fading environments, model reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), and account for effects like target reflection, multipath propagation, and noise interference.
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