Get Started with Phased Array System Toolbox
Phased Array System Toolbox™ provides tools for designing and simulating phased array and beamforming systems for wireless communication, radar, sonar, and acoustic applications. You can design multibeam and electronically steerable antennas by configuring array geometries, including subarrays, and adjusting element parameters. You can synthesize beamforming patterns through optimization and AI techniques.
For communication systems like 5G, 5G-advanced, SATCOM, and WLAN, the toolbox provides algorithms for simulating hybrid and digital beamforming architectures for massive MIMO and millimeter-wave systems. You can simulate multipath fading environments, model reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and generate signal waveforms.
For radar, sonar, and acoustic systems, the toolbox includes pulsed waveforms and algorithms for monostatic and multistatic topologies, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), direction of arrival (DOA) for localization, matched filtering, and image formation.
Tutorials
- Phased Array Gallery
Model and visualize a variety of antenna, microphone, and hydrophone array geometries with Phased Array System Toolbox™. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Signal Simulation
The basic toolbox workflow is applied to a monostatic radar system consisting of a single antenna.
Phased Array Gallery
Microphone Array Applications
Antenna Array Applications
Waveforms
Radar Applications
About Phased Array Systems
- System Overviews
Describes the common building blocks of 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 (SI).
Videos
An introduction to Phased Arrays
An array refers to multiple sensors, arranged in some
configuration, that act together to produce a desired sensor
pattern. This video shows how you can electronically steer that
pattern without having to physically move the array simply by
adjusting the phase of the signals at each individual
element.
What is beamforming?
This video shows how to control the shape and directionality of
the gain pattern of an array of antenna elements by adjusting the
amplitude and phase of each element. This makes it easier to detect
targets in the presence of interference and clutter.
What is beamforming for communications?
Wireless communications systems like 5G and WiFi usually have to
serve many users simultaneously and they have to deal with multiple
paths between two radios when operating in a scattering rich
environment. This video covers how multichannel beamforming and
spatial diversity is used to overcome those issues.
What is beamforming for radar?
This video shows how to employ digital beamforming to improve
radar systems. It shows how we can combine the use of sensor arrays
with multiple RF chains to have more control over the shape and
directionality of radar beams in order to maximize signal and
minimize interference. It also allows for multiple independently
steered beams from the same array.
