RF Toolbox™ 2.3

Product Description

• RF Toolbox Key Features
• Defining RF Components
• Designing Networks
• Modeling with Rational Functions
• Converting Network Parameters
• Visualizing Component and Network Behavior

Introduction

RF Toolbox extends MATLAB with functions and a graphical user interface (GUI) for designing, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing networks of radio frequency (RF) components. You can use RF Toolbox for working on wireless communications, radar, and signal integrity projects.

You can execute RF Toolbox functions from the MATLAB command line or the RF Tool GUI, or call the toolbox functions from your own MATLAB scripts and functions. The toolbox includes rectangular, polar, and Smith® charts for visualizing data.

Key Features

• Provides read and write access to industry-standard file formats for network parameters
• Defines RF filters, transmission lines, amplifiers, and mixers by their experimental or theoretical network parameters and physical properties
• Calculates network parameters for RF components in series, parallel, cascade, hybrid, and inverse hybrid configurations
• Builds models using the rational function fitting method
• Exports rational function models to Simulink or as Verilog-A modules
• Calculates noise figures and third-order intercept points for cascaded components
• Converts among S, Y, Z, ABCD, h, g, and T network parameters
• Includes rectangular and polar plots and Smith® charts for visualizing data

Lower intersection point of circles on Smith chart corresponds to susceptance value of desired component. Click on image to see larger view.

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