IMS 2026: Booth # 18090 – MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software for designing engineered systems, will highlight a digital twin capability at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2026. The capability integrates validated RF hardware models from global semiconductor leader Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) into system‑ and mission‑level simulation, enabling earlier design and verification of complex radar and satellite communication systems.
ADI’s RF and phased-array product portfolios support system-level design and verification of complex radar and satellite communication systems. Building on longstanding technical work together, integration with ADI products enables engineers to assess architectural trade-offs and performance earlier in the design cycle, before the hardware configuration is finalized.
Radar and satellite communication platforms increasingly rely on reconfigurable, wideband phased array architectures that must support multiple missions on shared hardware. These systems tightly couple RF, digital signal processing, and system design. As a result, component-level analysis alone is no longer sufficient to predict system behavior. Through their joint efforts, MathWorks and ADI enable RF digital twins that combine hardware models with system-level simulation, allowing engineers to analyze end-to-end behavior and understand how RF impairments affect higher-level outcomes, such as detection performance or link reliability.
“Accurately modeling RF hardware behavior at the system level is essential for modern radar and satellite communications,” said Dan Mantoni, Director of Simulation and Modeling at ADI. “By connecting validated ADI RF component models directly into system-level design environments from MathWorks, RF digital twins help engineers explore architectural options earlier, understand performance tradeoffs, and reduce risk as designs move toward implementation.”
Leonardo, a global aerospace and defense company, is an early user of ADI digital twins and MathWorks workflow to support model-based RF system design for advanced radar programs. Engineers can bring validated RF hardware behavior into system- and mission-level simulations, enabling detailed analysis of architecture choices, signal processing configurations, and performance tradeoffs early in development. This approach allows engineering teams to concentrate testing on specific scenarios that most directly affect system performance and assess design options before hardware is available.
“For RF digital twins to be trusted, the underlying models must be grounded in real hardware behavior and validated across multiple levels of abstraction,” said James Wolstencroft, Lead Systems Engineer, Lenoardo UK. “ADI digital twins reflect a disciplined approach to model development and correlation that allows our engineers to reuse consistent representations of RF components as designs mature, from early concepts through system integration and test.”
MathWorks will highlight its collaboration with ADI during a technical workshop and a joint RF Systems Pavilion demonstration with Leonardo. The workshop, “Reconfigurable Wideband Phased Arrays for mmWave: System Design and Verification Across Radar and Wireless Domains,” takes place Tuesday, June 9, from 1:30 to 3:10 p.m. in room 154. The workshop will demonstrate how measurement and behavioral modeling techniques connect hardware prototypes with digital twins to evaluate architectural trade-offs and performance-optimization strategies for 5G/6G links and active electronically scanned array radar systems. Attendees can also visit the RF Systems Pavilion, booth 20088, to see “Modeling the Future: RF Systems Powered by Simulation” running throughout the exhibition with continuously looping simulation content and daily live sessions—an opportunity to engage directly with experts from MathWorks, ADI, and Leonardo as well as learn how digital twins enable earlier system- and mission-level verification before committing to hardware.
MathWorks Technical Marketing Manager, RF & Mixed Signal, Giorgia Zucchelli will deliver a technical keynote on Tuesday, June 9, “RF Digital Twins: Trading-off Fidelity and Performance Across Models, Simulation Tools, and Hardware Measurements.” The presentation will discuss methodologies for characterizing beamformers, front-end modules, and other RF components through both measurement and simulation. Zucchelli will demonstrate techniques for validating model accuracy in system-level design contexts, using a highly programmable wideband mmWave beamformer as a practical example, with a focus on end-to-end design and simulation for radar applications.
“IMS brings together the engineers who are pushing the limits of radar and satellite communications, which makes it the right setting to introduce this RF digital twin capability,” said Zucchelli. “These joint efforts with ADI demonstrate the value of bringing validated hardware models into a single, system-level workflow that connects algorithms, RF behavior, and performance analysis. It represents an important first step in our longer-term strategy to provide digital twin models for more mainstream components, helping establish this approach as a practical foundation for designing, verifying, and evolving complex RF systems.”
For a full schedule of all the MathWorks demos, presentations, and news, please visit International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2026.
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