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EE-210. Signals and Systems. Lab Handout #4.: Introduction To Simulink

This document is a lab handout for an EE signals and systems course. It introduces Simulink and provides two exercises. The first asks students to build a Simulink model that integrates a sine wave and displays the result, pointing out equivalent blocks. The second asks students to convolve two pulse trains. The document also discusses radar signals, explaining how radar uses matched filtering to detect echoes. It provides hints for a third exercise modeling a radar transmitter and receiver, and processing the received signal to detect a valid echo.

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EE-210. Signals and Systems. Lab Handout #4.: Introduction To Simulink

This document is a lab handout for an EE signals and systems course. It introduces Simulink and provides two exercises. The first asks students to build a Simulink model that integrates a sine wave and displays the result, pointing out equivalent blocks. The second asks students to convolve two pulse trains. The document also discusses radar signals, explaining how radar uses matched filtering to detect echoes. It provides hints for a third exercise modeling a radar transmitter and receiver, and processing the received signal to detect a valid echo.

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EE-210. Signals and Systems.

Lab Handout #4.∗


Spring 2010.

Introduction to simulink.
Laboratory Grading.
Presentation on Simulink.
Exercise 1.

1. Build a model at simulink that integrates a sine wave and displays the result along with
the sine wave.
a. Point out which block in simulink is equivalent to hold on & hold off.
b. How do you achieve subplot in simulink?
2. Build a model at simulink that convolves two pulse trains.
Note: The Convolution block in Signal Processing Blockset is vector-based and it con-
volves corresponding columns of the input matrices. Therefore, if you want to convolve
over time, you should use frame-based signals as inputs to this block, or use Buffer blocks to
convert the sample-based inputs into frame-based signals before entering the Convolution
block.

RADAR Signals and Systems.


In a RADAR, we repeatedly transmit a radio signal on the transmitter antenna (Tx) and wait
for its echo from a target of interest. The transmitted signal is usually a short burst of RF
waves at a very high frequency (say ω). The target reflects an echo which arrives back at the
radar receiver (Rx) after some time. This time duration depends on how far the target is. The
frequency of the received echo does not change much, but its amplitude and time of arrival is
unknown and depends on target size and distance. In order to detect the signal, the RADAR
engineer does a convolution of the received signal with a time-reflection of the transmitted signal.
This technique is called matched filtering.
If the received signal matches the original signal shape, the convolution outputs a large peak
with high energy. If not, the output is of low amplitude. Tuning a simple threshold can let the
engineer decide if the received signal after processing d(t) indicates whether it is a valid echo or
∗ LUMS School of Science & Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan.

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just noise.

Exercise # 02.

1. Build a model for the transmitter of this RADAR, transmitting a signal Tx with pulses
having pulse width τ and pulse repetition period T of your own choice.

2. Now you have to use air space blocks available to you. At its input you have to feed your
transmitted signal Tx and at its output you are receiving Rx . Analyze the received signal
Rx
3. Decide if the received signal after processing d(t) is a valid echo or just noise. Processing
involves a matched filter and a threshold.

Hints:

1. Roughly speaking you may need the following blocks. Pulse generator, sine wave,
product, scope, subsystem, buffer, convolution, constant, vector scope, relational
operator.
2. You can put your complete transmitter into one block i.e. subsystem named as transmitter.

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3. Buffers are needed if you use convolution block. Take output buffer size per channel as
50.
4. To observe the output of convolution, you cannot use a normal scope but a vector scope.
5. Pulse generator should have pulse type as sample based with sampling period as 1/50.

6. Sine wave should be pulse type and with sampling ratio of 1/100.
7. In order to make cosine wave from a sine wave block you need to add some offset samples.
8. Use time domain convolution method.

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