The Communications Blockset extends

Simulink with a comprehensive library

of blocks to design and simulate the
physical layer of communication systems
and components.
Unlike procedural programming languages,
the Communications Blockset and Simulink
visually capture the real-time concurrent
interaction of algorithms that form a com-
munication system.
The Communications Blockset helps
you design commercial and defense and
wireless and wireline systems, including
mobile handsets and base stations, Internet
phones, and satellite systems. You can also
use the blockset to design semiconductors
in these products. Other applications
include the design of read channels for
mass storage devices, such as tape drives,
disk drives, and DVDs.
Communications Blockset 3
Design and simulate the physical layer of communication systems and components
KEY FEATURES
Hierarchical, block-based models for visually conveying
complex designs
Blocks for designing and simulating the physical layer of
communications systems, including source coding, block and
convolutional coding, interleavers, filters, and modulators
Sources, such as random integer and binary generators, PN,
gold code sequences, and sinks, such as error-rate calculations,
eye diagrams, and constellation plots
Channel models, including AWGN, Rayleigh, and Rician, and
RF impairments, including nonlinearity, phase noise, thermal
noise, and phase and frequency offsets
Integration with the Communications Toolbox for post-
simulation analysis
Eye diagrams, scatter plots, and communication-specific
displays enable you to visualize and analyze the
signals at any point or step in your model.
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Physical Layer Blocks
Together, the Communications Blockset
and Simulink provide signals and blocks for
modeling the sampled data and components
of the physical layer of your communication
system. Each block models a component.
With the Communications Blockset, you can
group sequences of samples together into
frames. Frames simplify the design of a
system consisting of blocks with multiple input
and output sample rates. You can select input
and output frame sizes to assign a single frame
rate to a block or a cluster of blocks. Frame
sizes and rates then map naturally onto the
hardware of your design and implementation.
Frame-based processing increases simula-
tion speed because Simulink can pass input
samples in a frame, schedule block execu-
tion at the frame rate, and receive a frame of
output samples.
The Communications Blockset provides
blocks for a typical cascade of random
source, transmitter, channel model, receiver,
and BER measurement. These blocks include:
Data sources and sequence generators
Source and channel coding, including block
and convolutional coding
Interleaving, analog and digital modulation,
and pulse shaping
Channel models and RF impairments
Receiver algorithms, such as synchronization
MLSE and adaptive equalization
Specialized Visualization Blocks
The Communications Blockset provides
visualization blocks for communication engi-
neering, such as eye diagrams, constellation
plots, and bit error rate summaries. The block-
set integrates with MATLAB and the BERTool
GUI of the Communications Toolbox for com-
paring the bit error rate of your system with a
variety of proven analytical results.
Required Products
MATLAB
Simulink
Communications Toolbox
Signal Processing Blockset
Signal Processing Toolbox
Related Products
Filter Design Toolbox
Fixed-Point Toolbox
RF Blockset
RF Toolbox
Simulink Fixed Point
For more information on related products, visit
www.mathworks.com/products/commblockset
Platform and System Requirements
For platform and system requirements, visit
www.mathworks.com/products/commblockset
The Communications Blockset Library contains 13 sublibraries, each
providing blocks for specific aspects of communication system design.
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Model of the physical layer of the IEEE 802.11a Wireless
LAN standard, including adaptive modulation, using
blocks in the Communications Blockset.
For demos, application examples,
tutorials, user stories, and pricing:
Visit www.mathworks.com
Contact The MathWorks directly
US & Canada 508-647-7000
Benelux +31 (0)182 53 76 44
France +33 (0)1 41 14 67 14
Germany +49 (0)241 470 750
Italy +39 (011) 2274 700
Korea +82 (0)2 6006 5114
Spain +34 93 362 13 00
Sweden +46 (8)505 317 00
Switzerland +41 (0)31 950 60 20
UK +44 (0)1223 423 200
Visit www.mathworks.com to obtain
contact information for authorized
MathWorks representatives in countries
throughout Asia Pacific, Latin America,
the Middle East, Africa, and the rest
of Europe.