Military Communications

"With its expansive instrument driver library, LabVIEW offers the ability to easily interface between several devices, includes seamless support of numerous buses, and allows for the rapid development of advanced man-machine interfaces."

- Anne-Lise RIBOTTA - ENSM.SE

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Integrating NI’s graphical system design approach with its modular hardware and software platforms simplifies system development from research and development systems to deployed mission systems to operations and maintenance support systems. This integrated start-to-finish solution decreases program costs while producing reliable, precise results.

You can quickly integrate the superior measurement and analysis capabilities of high-performance PXI vector signal analyzers (VSAs), vector network analyzers (VNAs), vector signal generators (VSGs), RF switches, and NI FlexRIO FPGA modules using the development startup support of toolkits such as the NI Modulation Toolkit or NI GPS Simulation Toolkit for LabVIEW.

Software-Defined Radio (SDR) System

The FPGA-based NI PXIe-5641R RIO IF transceiver provides a flexible platform for SDR 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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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

View an example MIMO test system