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5G Toolbox™ provides standard-compliant functions and reference examples for the modeling, simulation, and verification of 5G and 5G-Advanced communications systems. The toolbox supports waveform generation, link-level and system-level simulations, golden reference verification, and conformance testing.

With the toolbox, you can configure, simulate, measure, and analyze 5G communications links and systems. You can modify or customize the toolbox functions and use them as reference models for implementing 5G devices. You can also explore candidate technologies for 6G communications systems.

The toolbox functions and reference examples help you to characterize uplink and downlink specifications, perform open radio access network (O-RAN) conformance tests, and simulate the effects of RF designs and interference sources on system performance. You can generate and analyze waveforms and customize test benches using the Wireless Waveform Generator and Wireless Waveform Analyzer apps. With these waveforms, you can verify that your designs, prototypes, and implementations comply with the 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) specifications.

Tutorials

• 5G NR Waveform Generation
  

  Get an overview of 5G NR waveform generation workflows and the waveform types that you can generate.

Model 5G NR Communication Links

Learn how to model 5G NR communication links.

• Model 5G NR Transport Channels with HARQ
• Map 5G Physical Channels and Signals to the Resource Grid
• DL-SCH and PDSCH Transmit and Receive Processing Chain
• Synchronization Signal Blocks and Bursts
  

  Generate multiple 5G NR synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to form a synchronization signal burst (SS burst).

• Modeling Downlink Control Information
  

  Model DCI message encoding, PDCCH processing, and information recovery in 5G NR communications system.

• 5G New Radio Polar Coding
  

  Model the new CA-Polar coding technique in 5G NR communications system.

• LDPC Processing for DL-SCH and UL-SCH
  

  Process 5G NR DL-SCH and UL-SCH transport blocks using LDPC coding.

About 5G

• What Is 5G New Radio?
  

  Learn about the benefits of 5G NR communications system and the scope of 5G Toolbox.

• 5G Toolbox and the 5G NR Protocol Layers
  

  5G Toolbox in the context of the 5G NR user plane protocol stack.

Featured Examples

5G NR Downlink Vector Waveform Generation

Create mixed numerology DL waveforms containing SS burst, PDSCH, PDCCH, and CSI-RS.

• Open Script

5G NR Uplink Vector Waveform Generation

Create mixed numerology UL waveforms containing PUSCH, PUCCH, and SRS.

• Open Script

5G NR-TM and FRC Waveform Generation

Use MATLAB^® code to generate standard-compliant 5G NR test models, downlink FRCs, and uplink FRCs for FR1 and FR2.

• Open Live Script

App-Based 5G Waveform Generation

Use the 5G Waveform Generator app to generate, export, and transmit 5G NR waveforms.

New

App-Based 5G Waveform Analysis

Use the 5G Waveform Analyzer app to analyze and visualize imported or captured 5G waveforms and export analysis results.

• Since R2024b

Generate Wireless Waveform in Simulink Using App-Generated Block

Use the Export to Simulink capability of the Wireless Waveform Generator app to generate waveforms in Simulink.

• Open Script

New

Interactive CDL Channel Model Configuration

Configure CDL channel model and visualize channel characteristics and channel OFDM response using an app.

• Since R2024b
• Open Live Script

NR PUSCH Resource Allocation and DM-RS and PT-RS Reference Signals

Learn about the effects of PUSCH resource allocation on the time-frequency structure of DM-RS and PT-RS.

• Open Live Script

NR PDSCH Resource Allocation and DM-RS and PT-RS Reference Signals

Learn about the effects of PDSCH resource allocation on the time-frequency structure of DM-RS and PT-RS.

• Open Live Script

Videos

5G Explained
Learn about key concepts of the 5G NR physical layer standard.