Applications for Researchers: Where Is NI USRP Used?

Rapidly prototype and deploy physical layer communications systems:

• Validate research theory with real-world signals
• Design custom protocols and modulation schemes
• Study multinode and wireless network interaction
• Simulate impairments, channel models, and perform simple bit error rate testing

Explore nonlinear interference models and noise mitigation algorithms with NI USRP and LabVIEW

Create repeatable tests and log real-world signals with RF record and playback:

• Generate standard test patterns algorithmically or from recorded data
• Log RF signals from real-world environments for later playback
• Post process data collections for repeatable algorithm evaluation and testing
• Combine with NI redundant array of independent disks (RAID) hard drive solutions for expanded capacity and data rates

Watch a record and playback demo with NI USRP

Collect, analyze, and identify RF and communications signals for intelligence gathering:

• Monitor spectrum for signals of interest 40 MHz at a time in 8-bit mode
• Decode over-the-air communication signals in real time
• Derive location information using multiple synchronized antennas
• Develop and test new algorithms and approaches in a portable form factor                                   

Learn more about spectrum monitoring with NI USRP

See how COGEU used LabVIEW and NI USRP to accelerate cognitive radio research