PathWave System Design (SystemVue) for RF & Antenna Engineer

Explore SystemVue's features and capabilities for RF and antenna design, including time and frequency-domain simulations and model-based design that speeds hardware verification.

Learn to start SystemVue, create new workspaces, access the system library and templates, and navigate the welcome window to begin your RF and antenna design workflow.

Master the SystemVue design environment for RF and antenna engineering, selecting analyses, wiring components from the 5G modem library, and generating code while Monte Carlo evaluations guide design.

Explore how dataflow analysis powers RF system simulations in SystemVue, detailing timing parameters, samples, and frequency options, plus multitiered simulations, data persistence, and automatic recalculation.

Explore advanced options in the data flow analysis tab, including multithreaded simulation, deadlock resolution, data persistence, repeatable random sequences, fixed-point analysis, and dataflow diagnostics.

Simulate dataflow and connect components from the library using the sematic window. Run the design and retrieve the blocks for the design.

Learn to create and customize plots in SystemVue by accessing the output, selecting plot options, and adjusting graph type, axis ranges, colors, sample rate, and goal lines.

Explore advanced graph options in SystemVue, including constellation, cross-correlation, histogram, level diagram, and spectrum; learn to name sinks, post-process data, and annotate markers.

Change graph properties in SystemVue by right-clicking, adjusting font size with Ctrl plus or minus, editing the title, and customizing colors, background, symbols, line thickness, and styles.

Explore how color coding represents component types, signal envelopes, and model suffix conventions in RF system design, using orange, blue, green, white, black, red, and yellow codes.

Explore Golos color coding for five data types in the schematic window, and how conversion blocks translate complex data to analog and RF envelopes, with frequency settings and arrow meanings.

Define data types, including signed and unsigned fixed-point numbers, word length, and quantization modes. Explain envelope signals and the sampling requirements for complex RF envelopes versus real signals.

Explore using envelope signals to modulate and demodulate analytical signals in SystemVue, view envelopes with sinks and spectrum analyzers, and appreciate the reduced sample rate for envelope representations.

Explore type conversion to and from envelope types in PathWave System Design (SystemVue), including complex to envelope and real or analytic signals, with automatic converter insertion.

Demonstrates envelope to complex and complex to envelope conversions in PathWave SystemVue, detailing block connections, type conversion, and using complex envelopes to reveal frequency characteristics for later conversions.

Learn to model and script MATLAB within SystemVue for RF and antenna design. Run MATLAB scripts in SystemView to generate a sine wave, a square, and an absolute value.

Explore RF and analog components in SystemVue, from complex analog signal error and envelope to nonlinear amplifiers, ADCs, channel models, and coherent demodulators for LTE and wireless designs.

Explore analog and RF components, including envelope signals, downsampled input time signals, digital-to-analog converters with nonlinearities, complex signal processing, and configurable filters for modeled RF designs.

Learn the basic components for RF system design in SystemVue, including amplifiers, capacitors, filters, transmission lines, and couplers, and how to assemble, simulate, and analyze system performance.

Explore basic RF architecture design in SystemVue, wiring multi sources, configuring CW sources, and simulating amplifiers and output blocks to analyze the RF transmitter's gain and power spectrum.

Design and analyze an RF transmitter in SystemVue by configuring a transmitter dataset, selecting sources, setting frequency and occupancy, adding filters, and evaluating output spectrum and noise figure.

Learn to assemble an RF receiver chain by selecting, placing, and wiring components, configuring a source, and setting component values across low and high frequencies.

Explore the RF receiver chain parameters, analyze its spectrum and power spectrum, and run a complete circuit design to obtain output results, graphs, and data from the simulation.

Analyze RF system budget analysis in SystemVue at 6 GHz, using frequency-domain characteristics of linear and nonlinear components to assess performance across a cascade of amplifiers, mixers, and filters.

Design a dual-band RF receiver for 2.4 GHz and 5.3 GHz using a multi-carrier source, mixers, filters, amplifiers, and RF switches in SystemVue.

Design a dual-band receiver at 2.4 and 5.3 GHz using a multi-carrier source, configuring oscillators, mixers, and RF switches, and analyzing the power spectrum.

Explain how a block up converter shifts a 70 MHz intermediate frequency to the C-band 5 GHz for satellite communications, using a variable gain amplifier, mixer, and oscillator.

Configure a block up converter for satellite communication by selecting the band, amplifying the signal, integrating a single directional coupler, and validating the power spectrum up to 10 GHz.

Explore heterodyne receiver design and stage-by-stage path analysis, from RF signal generation and amplification to down conversion with a mixer and LO, then bandpass filtering and baseband quadrature conversion.

Set and optimize the components of a heterodyne receiver by configuring input signal, wideband bandwidth, central frequency, amplifier gains, noise figures, mixers, and filters for precise RF performance.

Explore power spectrum analysis, cascaded gains, and carrier-to-noise and distortion loss in a multi-stage RF design using SystemVue, including output power spectrum, level diagrams, and noise figure insights.

Explore filter response analysis in system view, comparing Butterworth and other filter types, highlighting magnitude and impulse responses, response time, ripples, and trade-offs for microwave design.

Compare hyperspectral filter responses, including high-pass, low-pass, and ripple-free designs, and explore the trade-offs between fast response, impulse response, and ripple-free behavior in finite impulse response filters.

Design a low-pass filter in system view with a 10 kHz pass frequency and 15 kHz corner, using an impulse input. Analyze impulse response and spectrum to validate performance.

Learn to design and analyze an antenna system in SystemVue, selecting components like antenna arrays, phase shifters, splitters, and transmit/receive sources, and inspect gain, radiation patterns, and parameters.

Design and simulate an 8x8 uniform rectangular antenna array at 6 ghz in SystemVue, configuring transmitter mode, element spacing, and pattern visualization to analyze gain and radiation.

Design a simple phased array at six gigahertz using a transmitter path with splitter, amplifier, and filter. Tune parameters and explore window functions for beamforming and upper-hemisphere directional measurements.

Explore simulations of a simple phased array design at 6 ghz, analyze element counts from 8x8 to 100x100, and observe beam shifts and gain implications.

Design and simulate a dataflow RF beamforming network in PathWave SystemVue, tuning elements, frequency, and beam direction with phase shifters, nonlinear amplifiers, and envelope networks to visualize 3D radiation patterns.