RF Toolbox™ 2.3

Latest Features

Version 2.3

Released: 01 Mar 2008
 

Version 2.3, part of Release 2008a, includes the following enhancements:

• New group delay, voltage gain, and stability factor computation and visualization from calculate and plot methods
• Alternate port arrangements now available in s2sdd, s2sdc, s2scd, and s2scc functions
• New gammams and gammaml functions for computing source and load reflection coefficients required for simultaneous conjugate match
• New z2gamma function for converting impedance values to reflection coefficients
• New "Writing a Touchstone File" demo and upgraded existing demos to reflect newest features
• Upgraded M-file help for objects and packages

See the Release Notes for details.

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Version 2.2

Released: 01 Sep 2007
 

Version 2.2, part of Release 2007b, includes the following enhancements:

• New snp2smp function for converting N-port S-parameter data and termination impedances to M-port S-parameter data
• New circle method for placing circles on a Smith® Chart to depict stability regions and display constant gain, noise figure, reflection and immittance circles
• Support for plotting network parameters of devices with more than two ports on a Smith® Chart
• New powergain function for computing various power gains of a 2-port network
• New two-part Designing Matching Networks demo that shows how to use the new circle method (replaces two existing demos)
• Expanded Modeling a High-Speed Backplane demo that illustrates extraction of 4-port data from 16-port data

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 2.1

Released: 01 Mar 2007
 

Version 2.1, part of Release 2007a, includes the following enhancements:

• Support for Agilent P2D and S2D system-level verification models
• Mixer spur analysis from imported intermodulation tables
• timeresp method for computing the time response of an rfmodel object to a specified input signal
• New methods for plotting rfckt objects using a logarithmic scale for one or more axes
• gamma2z function for computing input impedance from a reflection coefficient
• Data tips for viewing numerical information on plots
• New “Visualizing Mixer Spurs” demo and upgraded existing demos to reflect newest features

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 2.0

Released: 01 Sep 2006
 

Version 2.0, part of Release 2006b, includes the following enhancements:

• New objects and functions to support signal integrity engineering
• Support for converting S-parameters into the transfer function
• Support for fitting a rational function to component or network data
• Support for computing the frequency response and impulse response of the component or network
• Support for exporting a Verilog-A model for use in a time-domain circuit simulator
• Three new demos to show the use of the objects and functions for modeling backplanes

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 1.3

Released: 01 Mar 2006
 

Version 1.3, part of Release 2006a, includes the following enhancements:

• New function for extracting network parameters from a circuit or data object and returning the result in an array
• New functions for deriving 2-port differential-, common-, and cross-mode S-parameters from single-ended 4-port S-parameters
• Improved demos and documentation

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 1.2

Released: 01 Sep 2005
 

Version 1.2, part of Release 14 with Service Pack 3, includes the following enhancements:

• New RLCG transmission line object
• Support for frequency dependence of impedance, phase velocity, and loss in the general transmission line object
• Support for comments and spaces between sections of data in Touchstone data files
• Improved demos and documentation

See the Release Notes  for details.

Version 1.1

Released: 07 Mar 2005
 

Version 1.1, part of MathWorks Release 14 with Service Pack 2, provides the following enhancements:

• Integration of plot figures into the RF Tool GUI
• Support for delay line, hybrid G ("inverse hybrid") connected network, and RF passive network circuit objects
• Functions for converting between hybrid G and hybrid H parameters
• Functions for calculating stability factors µ and k
• Ability to create amplifiers and mixer objects from MATLAB variables
• Support for specifying frequency-dependent noise figure and third order intercept point data in AMP file format
• Five new objects for storing RF data, such as network parameters, noise figure, power, IP3, and spot noise

For additional details, see the Release Notes.

Version 1.0.1

Released: 05 Aug 2004
 

Version 1.0.1 includes the latest bug fixes.