Simulate and develop wireless systems

-- Test & Measurement World, 5/8/2008 8:26:00 AM

Communications Blockset 4.0 extends Simulink from The MathWorks by adding code generation for simulating and designing the physical layer of wireless systems such as WiMAX. Using software blocks that work within the Simulink modeling environment, you can model physical-layer characteristics such as interleavers, filters, and modulators.

Communications Blockset 4.0 also lets you model random integer and binary generators, PN and Gold code sequences, and sinks. You can run error-rate calculations, model eye diagrams, and produce constellation plots. Physical channel models include AWGN, Multipath Rayleigh and Rician fading, and RF impairments such as nonlinearity, phase noise, thermal noise, and phase and frequency offsets.

The software also integrates with Matlab where you can perform post-simulation analysis. A visualization tool within Communications Blockset 4.0 lets you analyze time-varying communications channels.
 
Base price: $1000. The MathWorks, www.mathworks.com/products/commblockset/description1.html