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Introduction to RF Signal Generation Acquisition and Analysis with NI RF Technologies Course Overview

The introduction to RF Signal generation, acquisition and analysis with NI-RFmx course provides an example-based introduction to creating, generating, acquiring and analyzing RF signals with the NI-RFmx driver and Soft Front Panels, NI-RFmx Waveform Creator and the NI-RFSG driver. This course will introduce you to the NI RF technologies used for creating, generating, acquiring and analyzing RF signals in both an interactive and automated manner, and includes a few measurement-specific modules to walk you through the very basics of taking particular types of measurements. These do not teach you what these measurements are, and they do not teach how to maximize these measurements, but should be enough to get you started using your NI equipment to take the measurement.

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Course Objectives

  • Use NI-RFmx Waveform Creator to Create and generate CW, generic and Standards based RF signals

  • Use NI-RFmx Soft Front Panel to interactively acquire and analyze RF signals

  • Use NI-RFmx API to automate acquisition and analysis of RF signals

  • Use NI-RFSG to automate generation of created or synthesized signal

  • Use NI-RFmx Soft Front Panel, RFmx APIs and NI-VST/VSA & VSG to perform a simple Phase Noise measurement

Course Details

Duration

  • On-Demand: 3 hours

Audience

  • New users of NI-RF technologies including NI-RFmx Waveform Creator, NI-RFmx Soft Front Panels, NI-RFmx Driver and NI-RFSG

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with Phase Noise measurement

  • (Optional) LabVIEW Core I and II (Examples are presented in LabVIEW, however the APIs demonstrated are available in other languages)

NI Products Used

If you take the course On-Demand:

  • NI-RFmx Waveform Creator

  • NI-RFmx SpecAn Personality

  • NI-RFSG

  • NI-RFSG Playback Library

  • NI VST/VSA & VSG

Training Materials

  • On-demand training includes digital course materials delivered through the NI Learning Center, available for the access duration of your subscription

Introduction to RF Signal Generation Acquisition and Analysis with NI RF Technologies Course Outline

LessonOverviewTopics
Introduction to Creating and Modifying Waveforms Using RFmx Waveform CreatorUse RFmx Waveform Creator to create CW, Multi-Tones or Modulated Waveform.

  • Tone Generation

  • Generation From a File 

  • Standard Waveform Generation

  • Output to Generator

Introduction to Spectral Analysis and Signal Measurements Using RFmx Soft Front PanelUse RFmx Soft Front Panel to measure Marker Power, Time Domain Power or Channel Power. 

  • Marker Power

  • Time Domain Power

  • Channel Power

Introduction to Generating Waveforms with RFSG and RFmx Waveform Playback Library Use RFSG and RFmx Waveform Playback Library APIs to generate a variety of signal types․

  • CW Generation

  • Arbitrary Signal Generation

  • Dynamic Generation (Script) 

  • Generation From a File (RFSG Playback Library)

Introduction to Automating RF Measurements Using the RFmx APICreate a program using RFmx to configure a measurement, initiate acquisition and fetch results.

  • Import a Measurement Configuration From RFmx Soft Front Panel 

  • Leverage Stock Examples & RFmx API to Fully Define and Execute a Measurement

  • Explore the RFmx API

Measuring Phase Noise with NI-RFmxUse RFmx Soft Front Panel and RFmx API to perform a simple Phase Noise measurement. 

  • Phase Noise Measurement using RFmx Soft Front Panel

  • Phase Noise Measurement using RFmx API

Measuring Noise Figure with NI-RFmxUse RFmx Soft Front Panel and RFmx API to perform a simple Noise Figure measurement. 

  • Introduction to Noise Figure

  • Exploring Noise Figure Resources

  • Workflow of the Noise Figure Measurement

  • Calibrating the Hardware 

  • Taking the Measurement and Addressing Measurement Warnings

 

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