RF Toolbox
What is RF TOOLBOX?
RF Toolbox provides tools for designing, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing RF component networks for wireless, radar, and signal integrity applications.
It allows building RF networks with components like filters, transmission lines, amplifiers, and mixers, using measurement data or physical properties. The toolbox supports S-parameter analysis, parameter conversion, visualization with plots and Smith® Charts, and passivity enforcement.
The RF Budget Analyzer app evaluates transceiver chains for noise, power, and nonlinearity, generating RF Blockset models. It also supports rational function fitting to model interconnects and linear components, exporting them as Simulink blocks, SPICE netlists, or Verilog®-A modules.
S-Parameters
Read and write N-port Touchstone® files, visualize S-parameter data using Cartesian, polar, or Smith charts, and convert between different network parameter formats. Transform single-ended measurements into differential formats and de-embed 2N-port S-parameter data to eliminate the influence of test fixtures and access structures.
RF budget analysis
Define system-level specifications for RF transceivers in wireless communication and radar systems. Evaluate noise, power, gain, and nonlinearity across cascaded RF components. Utilize harmonic balance for precise nonlinear analysis and review results both numerically and graphically.
rational fitting
Fit frequency-domain data, including S-parameters, and extract equivalent poles and zeros for analysis. Verify and enforce passivity and causality. Use the fitted model for time-domain simulation in RF Blockset or SerDes Toolbox, or export it as a SPICE netlist or Verilog-A module.
rf network design
Design RF circuits, including filters and matching networks, using lumped RLC elements, transmission lines with physical properties, or measured S-parameters. Choose RF passive RLC components based on vendor and value from the substrate-scalable Modelithics® libraries.
