Radar System Design

Design, simulate, and analyze radar systems with MATLAB and Simulink

Radar systems are multidomain, containing both digital and analog/RF components. Because of this complexity, the debugging and testing process for a fully integrated radar system often uncovers multiple design errors. When full system test is postponed until the late stages of hardware implementation, the design updates required to fix errors are extremely expensive.

Using MATLAB^® and Simulink^®, you can perform full radar system design in a single multidomain simulation environment, enabling you  to detect and fix design errors before final hardware implementation. You can automatically generate code to deploy your radar system directly to DSP and FPGA hardware.

To accelerate development, MATLAB also provides libraries of algorithms such as match filtering, adaptive beamforming, target detection, space-time adaptive processing, clutter modeling, and direction of arrival estimation; in addition to an extensive set of communications and signal processing tools for radar system design.

Examples and How To

• Modeling and Simulating Phased Array Signal Processing Systems (Webinar)
• Designing and Developing Pulse Doppler Radars Using FPGAs (Webinar)
• Rapid Design and Implementation of FPGA-Based Digital Down Converter using MATLAB and Simulink (Webinar)
• Modeling a Radar System with Simulink 6:58 (Video)
• Waveform Design to Improve Performance of an Existing Radar System (Example)
• Designing a Basic Monostatic Pulse Radar (Example)
• Air Traffic Control Radar System Design (Example)

Software Reference

• Peak Power Estimate from Radar Equation (Phased Array System Toolbox Function)
• Ambiguity Function (Phased Array System Toolbox Function)
• Constant Gamma Clutter (Phased Array System Toolbox System Object)
• Conformal Array (Phased Array System Toolbox System Object)
• Designing a Receiver with an ADC (SimRF Documentation)

See also: Phased Array System Toolbox^™, Signal Processing Toolbox^™, HDL Coder^™, Embedded Coder^™, Simulink Coder^™, Fixed-Point Designer^™, SimRF^™, RF Toolbox^™, DSP System Toolbox^™, Communications System Toolbox^™, Wavelet Toolbox^™