NI software defined radio platforms provide an integrated hardware and software solution for rapid prototyping high performance wireless communication systems.
The platform scales from powerful yet easy to use host based systems, NI USRP software defined radio, to state of the art RF transceivers with high performance FPGA processing, NI FlexRIO Software Defined Radio Bundle. LabVIEW provides a common rapid prototyping environment for host, real-time, and FPGA development allowing you to prototype faster and significantly shorten time to results. Providing the only complete platform delivering a graphical system design approach, LabVIEW supports reuse of existing C, VHDL, and .m file script software IP. Researchers around the world are utilizing this unified heterogeneous design flow to prototype a wide range of advanced research that include MIMO, synchronization of heterogeneous networks, LTE relaying, RF compressive sampling, spectrum sensing, cognitive radio, beam forming, direction finding and more.
NI SDR in the Press
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Oct. 30, 2012 - National Instruments Releases Software Defined Radio Module Used in Leading 5G Wireless Research
Aug. 21, 2012 - UC San Diego Master of Advanced Study Program Uses NI Platforms to Provide Professional Hands-On Embedded and Communications Experience
Aug. 8, 2012 - NYU Launch World's First Academic Research Center to Combine Medicine with Wirless Communications and Computing
May 23, 2012 - National Instruments and TU-Dresden Collaborate on Fifth-Generation (5G) Mobile Network Research
May 16, 2012 - Notre Dame’s Wireless Institute, National Instruments join forces to help develop next generation of wireless
Jan. 11, 2012 - Rutgers University Forms a New Instructional Laboratory on Wireless Communications
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NI SDR Featured Articles, Papers, and Tutorials
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Whitepaper - Prototyping Next Generation Wireless Systems with Software Defined Radios
Software defined radios (SDRs) have emerged as a viable prototyping option for next generation wireless research by enabling researchers to quickly prototype a system, characterize it’s performance, and iterate on the design.
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Theory and Application of Software Defined Electronics: Design Concepts for the Next Generation of Telecommunications and Measurement Systems
This 27 page tutorial analyzes the analog and digital considerations when using NI USRP SDR for research in wireless communications.
Whitepaper - Building an Affordable 8x8 MIMO Testbed with NI USRP
In this whitepaper we explain how to use LabVIEW and the USRP platform to build a phase coherent MIMO testbed that scales from 2x2 to 8x8 antenna configurations and can be used for testing a wide range of MIMO and multi-user communications research.
Electronic Design - Getting Ready for 8x8 MIMO
At NIWeek 2011, we showcased the world’s first public prototype implementation of an 8x8 MIMO LTE-Advanced PHY on a commercial off-the-shelf platform, achieving a data rate of close to 1 Gbit/s.
Published Paper - Implementation of a Real-Time Wireless Interference Alignment Network
Interference alignment (IA) is a cooperative transmission technique for the interference channel.This paper describes two testbeds that implement real-time Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) IA ...
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NI SDR User Solutions
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Wireless Research
Direction Finding and Beamforming Using NI LabVIEW and the NI USRP Platform, Imperial College London, UK
Creating more opportunities for prototyping array-processing algorithms for signal detection, direction-finding, localization, beamforming, and target-tracking ...
Cleaning Up Dirty RF: RF/Communication Physical Layer Research With LabVIEW and NI USRP, TU Dresden, Germany
Developing an improved method for applying digital signal processing to correct nonlinear RF impairments, and validating the approach using real-world wireless signals.
LabVIEW and NI USRP Hardware Accelerate Cognitive Radio Research, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Proving that limited radio spectrum resources can be used successfully by both primary and secondary users in an economically feasible way.
Reverse-Engineering 802.11b Signals With NI USRP and LabVIEW, UT Dallas, US
Decoding 802.11 beacon (802.11b) signals from multiple Wi-Fi base stations as the first step in prototyping an indoor location positioning system.
Developing an Open Multi-constellation GNSS Receiver for Education, M3 Systems
For decades, GPS was the only global satellite positioning system available. In 2011, the Russian radio navigation system GLONASS started to provide worldwide coverage.
Education and Training
Designing Hands-On Wireless Communications Labs With the NI Universal Software Radio Peripheral and LabVIEW, Stanford University, US
Giving students opportunities to apply hands-on wireless communications concepts in the lab as part of the sophomore-level EE 49 Building Networked Systems course ...
Introducing Digital Data Transmission to Students With the NI Software Defined Radio Platform, TU Dresden, Germany
Introducing seventh- and eighth-grade students to the fundamentals of digital data transmission using radio waves as part of a technology-exploration program involving ...
Enabling Student Exploration of the Modular Design of Software Defined Radio Transceivers, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Introducing a new hands-on course series that teaches students how to develop and implement digital communication systems and software defined radio technologies ...
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