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Courses for Educators: Where Is NI USRP Used?

NI USRP™ (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) is one of the only turnkey teaching solutions scaling from RF fundamentals to advanced research using a single hardware and software platform. The NI USRP hardware and LabVIEW software combination offers students a unique and relevant opportunity to experiment with a wide range of real-world signals in introductory and digital communications laboratories. With this solution, students can focus on the practical implementation of theoretical algorithms and real-world impairments earlier in the curriculum.

Wireless and Digital Communication

Build a complete communications system in a semester:

  • Design a complete digital communication over-the-air link
  • Explore benefits and challenges of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) metamodulation
  • Evaluate algorithm and bit error rate performance under many operating conditions
  • Equip students with tools that scale to research and industry

Download a courseware packet for wireless and digital communication

Read an overview of Digital Wireless Communication courseware

See how to teach the fundamentals of digital communications using the NI USRP

Communications Systems

Hands-on experimentation with real-world signals:

  • Introduce the basics of analog and digital modulation
  • Explore the relationships between spectrum, bandwidth, and data rate
  • Give real-world context to the fundamentals of amplitude, frequency, and phase
  • Experiment with real-world, over-the-air communication schemes

See a lab on demodulating over-the-air on-off-keying (OOK) with NI USRP

Watch a video on teaching the tough concept of understanding RF radio broadcast

Download a courseware packet for communications systems