Enhanced MATLAB and Simulink supports wireless and radar design

MathWorks said it has strengthened support for wireless communications and radar design with MATLAB and Simulink. MathWorks says 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 polarization, 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. “We rely heavily on MATLAB to design and model phased array performance in radar and communication markets,” said Robert Liechty, business development manager at Cobham Defense Electronics. “Phased Array System Toolbox has helped us rapidly measure and analyze antenna beam patterns with beam steering to evaluate our design performance. We are pleased to see major enhancements in Release 2013a such as the Sensor Array Analyzer app and new statistical modeling capabilities that will allow more of our engineers to work more efficiently with Phased Array System Toolbox.” “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 behavior,” said Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist for signal processing at MathWorks. “These new c...