MATLAB and Simulink for RF Systems

Design and test multifunction RF systems like radar, wireless communications, and electronic warfare systems

Design, prototype, and test architectures, algorithms, and antenna arrays for the next generation of multifunction RF systems. Whether working on wireless communications, radar, and electronic warfare (EW) systems, you can use MATLAB and Simulink to rapidly prove viability of new technology concepts, eliminate design problems early in the development cycle, and streamline design verification.

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Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems

You can use MATLAB and Simulink throughout the product lifecycle, from requirements definition to component design and simulation, test, deployment, and certification. Streamline your radar system design, from antenna array analysis to radar signal processing algorithms, and data processing to control. Radar Toolbox includes algorithms and tools for designing, simulating, analyzing, and testing multifunction radar systems. Reference examples provide a starting point for implementing airborne, ground-based, and shipborne radar systems.

Define architectures, from system components and requirements allocation to test automation and requirements traceability
Model and visualize communication, radar, and EW scenarios in dense spectrum environments while accounting for propagation channels and clutter due to land and sea surfaces
Implement multifunction and cognitive techniques for spectrum sharing, beamforming to suppress jamming and interference, or artificial intelligence workflows
Model dynamics of ground-based, airborne, or ship-borne radar systems with moving targets and radar platforms
Design and simulate multi-sensor tracking and positioning systems

Radar system development workflow overview.

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Support for wireless and radar system design, illustrating standards, scenario modeling, end-to-end simulation, R F and antenna modeling, and deployment hardware.

Communications Systems

Leverage the flexibility of MATLAB and Simulink to design, simulate, test, and deploy advanced wireless communication systems. Perform scenario modeling, end-to-end link-level, and system-level simulation that includes standards-based waveform generation as well as modeling and treatment of RF impairments and interference. You can create reusable golden reference models for iterative verification of wireless designs, prototypes, and implementations.

Simulate and visualize scenarios (ground-based, satellite) with multiple transmitters and receivers
Model and design transceivers and front-ends, antenna arrays, and beamforming
Generate and analyze standards-based (5G, Satellite Communication) and custom waveforms
Perform end-to-end and system-level simulation for generic, custom, or standards-compliant (5G, Satellite Communications, LTE, MIL-STD-188) systems
Connect and test with software-defined radios such as USRP and Xilinx Zynq using real world signals

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Developing with and Deploying to Hardware

Hardware is crucial for testing, validating, and fielding mission critical radar, communications, and electronic warfare systems. With MATLAB and Simulink, you can perform over-the-air testing with RF instruments such as signal generators and spectrum analyzers, validate communications algorithms, using software-defined radio hardware such as the USRP. You can implement algorithms on FPGA, ASICs, or high-performance hardware such as the Xilinx RFSoC.

Prototype and test algorithm designs against real-world signals on popular lab equipment, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radio (SDR) hardware such as USRP, Xilinx, and Analog Devices.
Automatically convert models and algorithms to C/C++ or CUDA to run on FPGA, ASIC, and SoC or GPU hardware for real-time prototyping, design, and verification
Generate synthesizable VHDL or Verilog code with customizable communications system reference applications
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