Phased Array System Toolbox

Design and simulate phased array signal processing systems

Phased Array System Toolbox™ provides algorithms and apps for the design, simulation, and analysis of sensor array systems in radar, wireless communication, EW, sonar, and medical imaging applications. You can design phased array systems and analyze their performance under different scenarios using synthetic or acquired data. Toolbox apps let you explore the characteristics of sensor arrays and waveforms and perform link budget analysis. In-product examples provide a starting point for implementing a full range of phased array multifunction systems that require frequency, PRF, waveform, and beam pattern agility.

For radar, sonar, and EW system design, the toolbox lets you model dynamics and targets for ground-based, airborne, ship-borne, submarine, and automotive systems. It includes pulsed and continuous waveforms and signal processing algorithms for beamforming, matched filtering, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, and target detection. The toolbox also includes models for transmitters and receivers, propagation channels, targets, jammers, and clutter.

For 5G, LTE, and WLAN wireless communications system design, the toolbox enables you to incorporate antenna arrays and beamforming algorithms into system-level simulation models. It includes capabilities for designing and analyzing array geometries and subarray configurations, and provides array processing algorithms for conventional and hybrid beamforming, DOA estimation, and spatial multiplexing.

Get Started:

Phased Array Design

Model and analyze the behavior of active or passive electronically scanned arrays (AESA or PESA) with arbitrary geometries.

Design and Analyze Phased Arrays

Model and analyze phased arrays, including the array geometry, element spacing, custom antenna elements, phased shift quantization, mutual coupling, and perturbed elements.

Phased array gallery.

Subarray Modeling

Model subarrays commonly used in modern phased array systems.

Subarrays in phased array antennas.

Polarization

Transmit, propagate, reflect, and receive polarized electromagnetic fields.

Modeling and analyzing polarization.

Beamforming and DOA Estimation

Model narrowband and broadband digital beamforming algorithms. Suppress interferences and avoid self-nulling with adaptive beamformers. Use space-time adaptive processing (STAP) techniques to remove clutter and jammer. Estimate direction of arrival (DOA) of incident signals.

Narrowband and Broadband Beamforming

Model narrowband and wideband digital beamforming algorithms. The algorithms cover spectral-based and covariance-based techniques.

Conventional and adaptive beamformers.

Space-Time Adaptive Processing

Perform space-time adaptive processing (STAP). Combine temporal and spatial filtering to nullify interfering jammers. Use STAP processing to detect slow-moving or stationary targets in background clutter.

Introduction to space-time adaptive processing.

Direction of Arrival Estimation

Use direction of arrival (DOA) estimation to localize the direction of a radiating or reflecting source. DOA algorithms include beamscan, MVDR, MUSIC, 2D MUSIC, root-MUSIC, and monopulse trackers for moving objects.

DOA estimation with beamscan, MVDR, and MUSIC.

Complex Signal Data Generation

Generate radar, sonar, and EW data for performance analysis and to train machine learning algorithms.

IQ Data Generation

Generate IQ data for radar, sonar, and EW for performance analysis.

Radar echo simulation.

Radar target classification using machine learning.

Waveform Design and Analysis

Define waveforms and waveform libraries. You can analyze spectral properties, range resolution, and Doppler resolution.

Waveform analysis using the ambiguity function.

PRF and Frequency-Agile Waveforms

Create pulse waveform libraries with PRF and frequency agility.

Waveform agility.

Detection Visualization

Visualize data using range-Doppler, range-angle, range-time-intensity (RTI), and Doppler-time-intensity (DTI) displays.

Range-angle display.

Detection, Range, and Doppler Estimation

Perform matched filtering, stretch processing, pulse compression, pulse integration, range and Doppler estimation, and CFAR detection.

脉冲压缩和目标检测

Generate target detections using CFAR, 2D CFAR, and matched filters. Generate ROC curves and explore requirements using radar equation and sonar equation.

Constant false alarm rate detection.

Range and Doppler Estimation

Estimate range, range-Doppler processing, range-angle, and FMCW range estimation.

Range-Doppler response.

Target, Interference, and Channel Model

Define complex scenarios, including distributed target models with complex trajectories. You can also model a range of propagation channels, clutter, and jammer interferences.

Model Targets and Target Trajectories

t型车argets with RCS patterns based on azimuth, elevation, and frequency. Define sensor and target trajectories.

t型车arget RCS.

Multipath MIMO Channels

Model multipath MIMO channels with scatterers and environmental conditions, including rain, gas, and fog.

Visual array beam scanning.

Application Examples

模拟类风湿性关节炎dar, sonar, EW systems, automotive, and MIMO communication systems.

Modeling a radar system for a driving scenario.

Algorithm Acceleration

Speed up simulations and applications with generated C/C++ and MEX code, or by using GPUs or Dataflow.

Accelerate Clutter Simulation

Accelerate clutter simulations using a GPU or code generation (MEX).

Acceleration of clutter simulation using GPU and code generation.

Dataflow to Accelerate Simulation

Use Dataflow to accelerate simulation times by using parallel processing threads.

Data flow acceleration.

Latest Features

Sensor Array Analyzer App

设计子阵repli交互的应用程序cating an array along a spatial grid or by partitioning an array into subarrays

Frequency agility

Apply frequency shifts to pulse waveforms including phased.RectangularWaveform, phased.LinearFMWaveform, phased.SteppedFMWaveform, and phased.PhaseCodedWaveform System objects

Pattern Measurements

Compute and visualize beamwidth of array or element patterns

Radar Waveform Analyzer App

Interactively design matched filtering and stretch processing for waveforms

Detection Clustering

Cluster radar detections using density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm

Bicyclist Radar Backscatter Model

Simulate backscattered radar signals from a bicycle and rider

See therelease notesfor details on any of these features and corresponding functions.