Specifies whether the carrier is continuous or includes bursts.

If you set this property to Burst, the BT Generation generates the burst signal by adding zeros at the end of the packet to create one or more complete slots, depending on the packet type. In this mode, the BT Generation also shapes the generated waveform to meet the burst ramp characteristics specified in the Bluetooth Test Purposes (TP) specification 1.2/2.0+EDR/2.1/2.1+EDR/3.0/3.0+HS. If you set this property to Continuous, the BT Generation generates a phase continuous Bluetooth signal, which is used as an interference signal. This mode is useful to generate an interference signal with pseudorandom bits and continuous phase. In this mode, the Number of Idle Slots property is not used, and the number of idle slots is assumed be zero. In this mode, NI recommends you to leave the Number of Unique Packets, Payload Data Type, and Dirty Tx Enabled properties at their default values.

The following figure shows the envelope when you set the Carrier Mode property to Burst, and the Packet Type property is set to DH1.

The following figure shows the envelope when you set the Carrier Mode property to Continuous.

The default value is Burst.

Remarks

The following table lists the characteristics of this property.

Short Name Carrier Mode
Data type ci32.png
Permissions Read/Write
High-level VIs niBT SG Set Carrier Mode
Resettable Yes
Burst 0

Specifies that the carrier mode includes bursts.

Continuous 1

Specifies that the carrier mode is continuous.