MATLAB and Simulink product families help engineers design and simulate communications systems with greater speed and accuracy. Using detailed low-level models and higher-level behavioral abstractions, communications engineers can implement the desired level of model fidelity and run-time performance from within a single environment. MATLAB and Simulink streamline design flows by helping engineers to:
- Design, simulate, and prototype complex wireless systems such as 5G and WLAN
- Develop algorithms on a unified platform for wireless base station/devices and semiconductor chips combining signal processing, analog/mixed-signal, RF, and antennas
- Design SerDes wired communication systems and generate IBIS-AMI models for high-speed digital interconnects
“MATLAB and Simulink provide a unified and efficient system development platform to bridge between analog and digital; software and hardware; and algorithm, implementation, and verification.”
Using MATLAB for Communication System Development
Communications Infrastructure
Base station and network engineers use MATLAB and Simulink to:
- Design and model end-to-end communications links
- Design, simulate, and verify complex wireless systems using industry standards such as 5G and WLAN
- Efficiently model advanced channels such as MIMO and analyze the effects of RF impairments on network performance
- Prototype, design, and verify on FPGAs and ASICs
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Mobile Devices (Smartphone, Tablets, Wireless Chips)
MATLAB and Simulink tools are widely used in mobile device designs such as smartphones or tablets. This includes system-level design and analysis, modeling of communications channels, simulation using standard-compliant waveforms such as LTE and rapid prototyping using FPGAs. In addition, mobile communications engineers use MATLAB and Simulink to:
- Design and simulate multidomain models that include Signal Processing, Analog/mixed-signal, and RF elements
- Design analog, digital, and mixed-signal wireless chips on mobile devices
- Integrate audio, video, and computer vision applications into next-generation mobile devices
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Optical and Wireline Networks
Telecommunications and signal integrity engineers use MATLAB and Simulink to design, simulate, and model high-speed digital interface elements. Popular applications of MATLAB and Simulink tools include:
- Designing SerDes algorithms such as CTLE and DDR
- Modeling high-speed backplanes
- Exploring architectural tradeoffs using system-level simulation
- Creating HDL, IBIS-AMI, or SystemVerilog DPI models for implementation or validation