Antenna Toolbox
Design, analyze, and visualize antenna elements and antenna arrays
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Antenna Toolbox provides functions and apps for designing, analyzing, and visualizing antenna elements and arrays. You can design standalone antennas and build arrays of antennas using predefined elements with parameterized geometry and material.
The toolbox offers full-wave and hybrid electromagnetic solvers for port, surface, and field analysis, antenna placement studies, and radar cross section (RCS) calculations. You can install the antennas on large platforms such as vehicles or aircraft and analyze the effects of the structure on antenna performance. The toolbox includes AI-driven workflows such as reconstructing 3D radiation patterns using deep learning and enhancing antenna designs with SADEA optimization.
The toolbox lets you export designed antennas for fabrication using CAD and Gerber files. You can also integrate antenna arrays—including measured or third-party simulated data—into RF front ends of wireless systems for designing matching networks and simulating beamforming algorithms. You can use different propagation techniques, such as ray tracing, to visualize coverage and estimate links on arbitrary terrains and in urban scenarios.
Antenna and Array Modeling
Interactively design antennas using the Antenna Designer app with over 100 parameterized elements (including dipoles, patches, and horns), add backing structures, and specify material properties. Model arrays in various layouts with mutual coupling. Perform infinite array analysis for modeling large antennas.
Analysis, Benchmarking, and Verification
Analyze antenna elements and arrays using the full-wave 3D method of moments (MoM) solver. Compute port properties such as impedance, S-parameters, current and charge distribution, and near- and far-field radiation patterns. Compare analysis results with antenna measurements.
3D Modeling with CAD Files
Create custom planar and 3D structures, define feed points, and create antenna designs using shapes or CAD files. Attach connectors to PCB antennas, customize PCB file generation for specific manufacturing services, and generate Gerber files for fabrication.
AI and Optimization
Analyze and optimize antenna designs with AI-powered models. Use 3D pattern reconstruction from 2D slices with deep learning and AI-driven optimizers (SADEA and TR-SADEA) to reduce simulation time and meet design objectives.
Integrating and Visualizing Pattern Data
Import measured or simulated radiation pattern data from text, CSV, or MSI Planet antenna files (.MSI or. PLN) to excite backing structures or integrate pattern data into RF systems. Visualize far- and near-field data with 3D or polar plots. Use antenna impedance and S-parameters to design matching networks (with RF Toolbox), and design distributed matching networks (with RF PCB Toolbox).
Antenna Installation and Large Structure Analysis
Install antennas and antenna arrays on platforms such as cars, airplanes, or ships. Determine the radar cross section (RCS) of large objects for accurate target detection. Analyze large structures and their effects on antenna arrays using physical optics (PO), MoM-PO, or fast multipole method (FMM) solvers.
RF Propagation Models
Compute coverage and communication link properties using 3D geographical maps. Account for earth diffraction and reflection using Longley-Rice or Terrain Integrated Rough Earth Model™ (TIREM™) propagation models. Evaluate coverage in urban scenarios using ray tracing propagation models.
Product Resources:
“Analysis of Vivaldi element pattern, forming an array and performing mutual coupling analysis for the receiver chain was key to system simulation in implementing an aperture level beamforming chain for Radio astronomy application”
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