MathWorks is extending support for wireless communications and radar designs with enhancements to its Phased Array System Toolbox and SimRF available in MATLAB and Simulink. Release 2013a (R2013a).
According to the company, this will allow system designers to speed up modelling and simulation within the MATLAB and Simulink environments.
Phased Array System Toolbox helps users to model an end-to-end phased array system or process acquired radar data by using new capabilities for polarisation, array perturbations, and broadband arrays.
SimRF includes a new circuit envelope solver to accelerate simulation and model load time; it also expands its library of components for the simulation of RF front ends at the system level.
It can be used to measure and analyse antenna beam patterns.
"As wireless and radar communications systems become more complex, designers need to be able to see how RF devices and signal processing algorithms interact with each other to affect overall system behaviour," said Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist for signal processing at MathWorks.
The updated toolbox includes monostatic and multistatic radar system modeling, including point targets, free-space propagation, surface clutter and barrage jammer to help estimate maximum range, peak power, and SNR of a radar system.
There is also modelling of sensor arrays and subarrays with arbitrary geometries for beam pattern analysis of linear, planar, and conformal sensor arrays.
SimRF now includes faster circuit envelope simulation of multiple carrier-frequency models for arbitrary architectures.
