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Antenna Toolbox

Design, analyze, and visualize antenna elements and antenna arrays

Antenna Toolbox™ provides functions and apps for designing, analyzing, and visualizing antenna elements and arrays. You can design standalone antennas and build arrays of antennas using predefined elements with parameterized geometry and material.

The toolbox offers full-wave and hybrid electromagnetic solvers for port, surface, and field analysis, antenna placement studies, and radar cross section (RCS) calculations. You can install the antennas on large platforms such as vehicles or aircraft and analyze the effects of the structure on antenna performance. The toolbox includes AI-driven workflows such as reconstructing 3D radiation patterns using deep learning and enhancing antenna designs with SADEA optimization.

The toolbox lets you export designed antennas for fabrication using CAD and Gerber files. You can also integrate antenna arrays—including measured or third-party simulated data—into RF front ends of wireless systems for designing matching networks and simulating beamforming algorithms. You can use different propagation techniques, such as ray tracing, to visualize coverage and estimate links on arbitrary terrains and in urban scenarios.

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Learn the basics of Antenna Toolbox

Antenna Catalog

Parameterized antenna elements, custom antennas, backing structures, geometry visualization

Array Catalog

Finite and infinite arrays, planar mesh and geometry, layout visualization, mutual coupling, embedded pattern, pattern multiplication

Material Catalog

Parameterized metal and dielectric materials

3-D Modeling, CAD Files, and Fabrication

Create 3-D shapes with materials, Import and export CAD files, Design and fabricate PCB antenna

Design, Analysis, Benchmarking, and Verification

Antenna and array design for resonance, analysis, meshing, solvers, comparison of simulation results with measured results

AI and Optimization

Explore antenna design space, reconstruct 3-D pattern, optimize antennas and arrays

Pattern Data Integration and Visualization

Integrate pattern data into RF systems, MSI planet files I/O, reconstruct 3-D pattern from 2-D slices, create interactive polar plots

Installed Antenna and Large Structures

Antennas and arrays on platforms, infinite arrays and infinite ground plane, radar cross section (RCS)

RF Propagation

Site and terrain visualization, propagation model specification and visualization, path loss, TIREM™, Longley-Rice, outdoor and indoor ray tracing