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Design and simulate phased array and beamforming systems

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.

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    About Phased Array Systems

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    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.