Communications Blockset™ 4.0

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Functional Blocks

Introduction

Communications Blockset™ extends Simulink® with a comprehensive library of blocks for designing and simulating the physical layer of communication systems for commercial and defense applications. The blockset helps you model wireless and wireline systems and their semiconductor components.

The blockset provides channel models, error detection and correction blocks, and modulation techniques that let you characterize and optimize system performance. These blocks let you rapidly create a golden reference design and test bench, which you can use to develop and verify a fixed-point implementation.

The blockset includes sample models that provide a starting point for implementing MIMO, OFDM, and other advanced system architectures.

Communications Blockset software seamlessly integrates with other MathWorks™ tools for filter design and C and HDL code generation, and interfaces to third party verification tools and DSP development and rapid prototyping environments.

Key Features

• Hierarchical, block-based models for visually conveying complex designs
• Blocks for designing and simulating the physical layer of communications systems, including source coding, block and convolutional coding, interleavers, filters, and modulators
• Sources, such as random integer and binary generators, PN and Gold code sequences, and sinks, such as error-rate calculations, eye diagrams, and constellation plots
• Channel models, including AWGN, Multipath Rayleigh & Rician Fading, and RF impairments, including nonlinearity, phase noise, thermal noise, and phase and frequency offsets
• Integration with Communications Toolbox™ for post-simulation analysis
• Channel visualization tool for visualizing and exploring time-varying communications channels

Communication-specific displays for visualizing and analyzing the signals at any point or step in your model. Click on image to see enlarged view.

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