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"With NI software and hardware, we created an automated solution to successfully test antenna operations in just five minutes, which is considerably less time compared to the 30 minutes we needed to manually perform a test. This equates to more than 500 hours saved annually with automated testing."
- Peter
Aschof
- Tel Instrument Electronics Corp.
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National Instruments offers flexible software and modular RF instruments that support a wide range of RF test applications, including signals intelligence, record and playback, software-defined radio, and MIMO/beamforming. With the PXI RF test suite from National Instruments, you can achieve faster measurement speeds with R&D-grade accuracy. In addition, with the flexibility of the PXI platform, you can use PXI modular RF instruments in a wide range of applications. Other benefits include the following:
- Continuous frequency coverage from 85 MHz to 6.6 GHz
- Multichannel synchronization for up to 4x4 MIMO configurations
- Programmable FPGA for signals intelligence applications
- RF record and playback signal from antennas
- Wide range of communications IP for software-defined radio applications
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RF Record and Playback System
National Instruments RF record and playback systems combine PXI RF signal analyzers and RF signal generators with RAID arrays for high-speed, long-duration recording and playback. With the ability to generate or acquire terabytes of continuous data, PXI instruments can help you test receivers with real-world signals that are captured with an antenna.
- Capture real-world impairments of off-the-air signals
- Continuously record up to 50 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth for more than two and a half hours
- Play back up to 100 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth
- Record and play back FM, GPS, DVB, ATSC, and more
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NI MIMO Test System
The preconfigured NI MIMO Test System helps you prototype up to 4x2 and 2x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems in a single PXI chassis. With the shared local oscillator (LO) architecture, you can achieve tight channel-to-channel synchronization. In addition, with the high-speed PXI Express backplane, you can stream signals to and from RAID disk drives.
- Tight synchronization with <0.1 deg typical channel-to-channel jitter
- Up to four channels of phase-coherent RF signal generation in a single PXI chassis
- Ideal prototyping platform for up to 4x4 MIMO systems
- Ready-to-use LabVIEW example code
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Spectral Monitoring and Signals Intelligence System
You can combine the NI PXI-5600 downconverter with the NI PXIe-5641R RIO IF transceiver or NI PXI-5142 high-speed digitizer to create a signal intelligence system with PXI covering frequencies from 250 kHz to 2.7 GHz with 20 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. Featuring a 14-bit ADC, this system can be used with RAID volumes for continuous PXI signal acquisition and storage for several hours.
- 9 kHz to 2.7 GHz RF frequency
- 20 MHz instantaneous bandwidth
- Hardware-based digital downconversion
- Optional Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA
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Software-Defined Radio (SDR) System
The FPGA-based NI PXIe-5641R RIO IF transceiver provides a flexible platform for software-defined radio design. Using the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, you can create or reuse LabVIEW FPGA or VHDL communications IP. The IF transceiver module integrates with the NI PXI-5600 downconverter and NI PXI-5610 upconverter modules for full transmit-and-receive capabilities.
- 9 kHz to 2.7 GHz RF frequency
- 20 MHz instantaneous bandwidth
- Integrated digital downconversion and upconversion
- Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA
- Interoperability with VHDL and LabVIEW FPGA code
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