Getting Started with Phased Array System Toolbox

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.

Tutorials

Microphone Array Applications

Microphone ULA Array

Visualize a four-element ULA with cardioid microphone elements.

Time-Delay Beamforming of Microphone ULA Array

Perform conventional time-delay beamforming with 10-element ULA

Visualization of Wideband Beamformer Performance

Plot responses of a microphone element and an array of microphone elements.

Antenna Array Applications

Conformal Array

Antennas and microphones in conformal arrays can be placed anywhere in three dimensions.

Beamscan Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

Use beamscan to estimate directions of arrival of signals.

Radar Systems

Radar Equation

Solve the radar equation for peak power, range, and SNR in monostatic and bistatic configurations.

Linear Frequency Modulated Pulse Waveforms

LFM pulse waveforms increase time-bandwidth product and improve target detection.

Overview of Basic Workflow

This section provides an introduction to the end-to-end radar simulation.

End-to-End Radar System

The basic toolbox workflow is applied to a monostatic radar system consisting of a single antenna.

About Phased Array Systems

• System Overviews
  

  Phased Array Systems

• Standards and Conventions
  

  This section introduces the concept of baseband signals and defines the local and global coordinate systems used in the toolbox.

• Units of Measure and Physical Constants
  

  Phased Array System Toolbox uses the International System of Units.