Teaching and Designing Antenna Arrays Using Signal and Image-Processing Toolboxes of MATLAB

The goal of this paper is to apply some of the similarities between signal-processing theory and antenna-array theory to analyze and synthesize antenna arrays by using the signal and image-processing toolboxes of MATLAB
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. A detailed description and examples are given. The synthesis of one-dimensional and two-dimensional rectangular arrays is demonstrated using this simple method. These tools can be used for teaching antenna design.