NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 Readme

January 2019


This file contains important information about NI-RFmx EV-DO and is organized into the following sections:


New Features

Installation Instructions

Supported Hardware

System Requirements

Installed Software, Documentation, and Examples

Executable

Documentation

Accessing VIs and Functions

Finding Examples

Product Security and Critical Updates

Behavior Changes

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

Increasing Available Memory For Your Application

Automating the Installation of NI Products

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1

Legal Information


New Features

NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 includes the following new features:


  • Support for NI PXIe-5820
  • Support for self-calibration in the RFmx Soft Front Panel

NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.5 includes the following new features:


  • Addition of APIs to perform self-calibration and partial self-calibration
  • Addition of NI-RFmx Debug Configuration Utility to configure debug settings
  • Support for LabVIEW 2018 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Support for querying configuration attributes without calling RFmxEVDO Commit API

NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3 includes the following new features:


  • Addition of code domain analysis (CDA) measurement
  • Addition of Slot Power measurement
  • Addition of Slot Phase measurement
  • Addition of functions to query signal configuration names and result names
  • Addition of a sequential FFT measurement method in the ACP measurement
  • Support for LabVIEW 2017 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Support for frequency-dependent external attenuation tables
  • Support for monitoring API calls in the NI IO Trace

Installation Instructions

Caution  Before you install NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0, ensure that you have uninstalled all related NI-RFmx 1.0 products.


Caution  If you are using only RFmx LabVIEW Runtime products, NI recommends uninstalling all the RFmx Runtime products before installing a newer version of RFmx Runtime products.


NI-RFmx drivers require that all the installed drivers have the same version for proper functionality because the NI-RFmx drivers use shared components that need to use the same version across all drivers. If driver incompatibilities exist, they are reported through a dialog box after installation. You can also use the Version Compatibility Checker utility to manually check for version incompatibilities. Refer to the Installed Software, Documentation, and Examples section for more information about the installed location of the Version Compatibility Checker utility.


Supported Hardware

Vector Signal Analyzers

  • NI PXIe-5663
  • NI PXIe-5663E
  • NI PXIe-5665
  • NI PXIe-5668R
  • NI PXIe-5698 with NI PXIe-5668R

Device-specific information about these modules is included in the NI RF Vector Signal Analyzers Help.


Vector Signal Transceivers

  • NI PXIe-5644R
  • NI PXIe-5645R
  • NI PXIe-5646R
  • NI PXIe-5840
  • NI PXIe-5820

Device-specific information about these modules is included in the NI RF Vector Signal Transceivers Help.


System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 supports the following operating systems:


  • Windows 10/8.11/7 SP12 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 R21 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP12 (64-bit)

Note  In 2016, NI-RFmx EV-DO dropped support for Microsoft Windows 7 RTM (with no service pack), Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 will not install or run on an unsupported OS. You cannot deploy or distribute applications that use NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 to an unsupported OS. Additionally, after installing NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0, you cannot use any installers built on this computer with any version of LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI™, NI TestStand™, or Measurement Studio on an unsupported OS.


For more information about the changes to our OS support for 2017, refer to KB 79UC78LS, Why Does my LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio, or TestStand Built Installer Fail on Windows XP/Vista and Server 2003?.


1 NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.2. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.


2 NI software is signed with a SHA-256 certificate. Windows 7 SP1, Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 require Microsoft updates to support SHA-256. Refer to Microsoft KB3033929 for more information about how to install this security update.


Note  NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 does not support Windows Server non-R2 editions.


NI recommends that you have the most recent service pack for your operating system installed.


Minimum Requirements

  • Processor—1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • RAM—4 GB*
  • A screen resolution of 1,024 x 768
  • Windows 10/8.1/7, with all available critical updates and service packs
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2

*Depending on the amount of data acquired and/or processed, a larger amount of memory may be required.


Application Development Environments (ADEs)

Note  You should install ADEs, such as NI LabVIEW or Microsoft Visual Studio®, before installing NI-RFmx EV-DO. To add support for ADEs installed after installing NI-RFmx EV-DO, modify your NI-RFmx EV-DO installation or launch the NI-RFmx EV-DO installer again.


  • NI LabVIEW 2015 SP1 f5 patch, 2016, 2017, or 2018
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or later

Note  NI-RFmx EV-DO will not operate correctly without the service packs and patches previously mentioned.


Other Required Software

  • NI-RFSA 14.1 or later

Installed Software, Documentation, and Examples

  • <MSTUDIOVS2010DIR> is an alias for the following National Instruments file folder location:
    • (32-bit) Program Files\National Instruments\MeasurementStudioVS2010
    • (64-bit) Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\MeasurementStudioVS2010
  • <NIDir> is an alias for the following National Instruments file folder location:
    • (32-bit OS) Program Files\National Instruments
    • (64-bit OS) Program Files (x86)\National Instruments 
  • <NIDocDir> is an alias for the following National Instruments file folder location: Users\Public\Public Documents\National Instruments
  • <SYSDIR> is an alias for the following file folder location:
    • (32-bit) windows\system32
    • (64-bit) windows\SysWow64 for 32-bit programs and windows\system32 for 64-bit programs

File Locations

Item Installed Location
Version Compatibility Checker <NIDir>\RFmx\niRFmxCompatibility_Checker.exe
Debug Configuration Utility <NIDir>\RFmx\niRFmxDebugConfigurationUtility.exe
DLLs <SYSDIR>
Header files

<NIDir>\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\include


Import Library files (32-bit) <NIDir>\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\include
Import Library files (64-bit)
  • 32-bit: <NIDir>\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\lib32\msvc
  • 64-bit: <NIDir>\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\lib64\msvc
C, .NET
Examples <NIDocDir>\NI-RFmx\EV-DO\Examples
LabVIEW
Examples <NIDir>\LabVIEW <version>\examples\RFmx\EVDO
.NET Class Libraries
Assemblies <MSTUDIOVS2010DIR>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current\NationalInstruments.RFmx.EvdoMX.Fx40.dll
<MSTUDIOVS2010DIR>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current\NationalInstruments.RFmx.InstrMX.Fx40.dll
<MSTUDIOVS2010DIR>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current\NationalInstruments.Common.dll

Executable

Select Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-RFmx EV-DO»NI-RFmx EV-DO Measurement Interactive Panel to launch the NI-RFmx EV-DO Measurement Interactive Panel.


Documentation

Documentation for NI-RFmx EV-DO is located at Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-RFmx EV-DO»NI-RFmx EV-DO Documentation. The documentation set is composed of the following documents.


Document Format Description
NI-RFmx EV-DO Help HTML/Windows Help Information about NI-RFmx EV-DO. This help file is an HTML version of a traditional user manual that includes the following information:
  • An introduction to NI-RFmx EV-DO
  • How to get started with application development
  • A complete reference for all NI-RFmx EV-DO programming functions and VIs
NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 Readme HTML (this document) Information about supported hardware, supported operating systems, new features, fixed issues, and legal notices.

For the most recent revisions of documentation and for newly released documentation, visit ni.com/manuals.


Accessing VIs and Functions

NI-RFmx EV-DO palette VIs are available from the Functions»Measurement I/O»NI-RFmx»EV-DO palette.


Finding Examples

You can access all the installed NI-RFmx EV-DO examples at Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-RFmx EV-DO»NI-RFmx EV-DO Examples.


Product Security and Critical Updates

Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about National Instruments products. Visit ni.com/critical-updates for information about critical updates from National Instruments.


Behavior Changes

The following items are the behavior changes in NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3.1 from NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3.


  • Changed the default value of the IQ Power Edge Source property to ""(empty string).
  • The alias 'default@EVDO' for the default signal name is accepted as a valid signal name in a selector string parameter.
  • LabVIEW built binaries using RFmx version older than 2.2 are not supported any longer.

Known Issues

No known issues.


Bug Fixes

The following items are changes in NI-RFmx EV-DO 3.0 from NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.5


ID Fixed Issue
706047 Fixed an occasional crash which might occur on closing LabVIEW 2017 IDE or LabVIEW 2017 built applications that use RFmx.
719203 Fixed an issue where a timeout error was thrown when the digital trigger was configured when Using breakpoints in C/C++/.NET application was selected in the NI-PXIe-5840.

The following items are changes in NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.4 from NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3.1.


ID Fixed Issue
640495 Fixed an issue where switching between measurements from an NI-RFmx cellular personality to Demod resulted in higher EVM on 5668R.

The following items are changes in NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3.1 from NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3.


ID Fixed Issue
650095 Fixed an issue where the RFmxInstr Close API did not abort a measurement in progress, but instead and waited for the measurement to finish before closing.
650083 Fixed the RFInstr Save All Configurations API to save the attribute configurations depending on the corresponding number of channels configured by user.
648703 Fixed an issue where passing a NULL as selector string in a few C functions, caused the function to crash.

The following items are changes in NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.3 from NI-RFmx EV-DO 2.2.


ID Fixed Issue
623679 Fixed an issue with measurement of small EVMs (close to 0%) when no input signal is present in the ModAcc measurement.
631432 Fixed an issue where incorrect values were returned on reading RF Attenuation and Mechanical Attenuation properties.

Increasing Available Memory For Your Application

When developing memory intensive applications, you may encounter memory limits as 32-bit Windows applications only utilize 2 GB of memory by default. To expand the amount of memory an application can utilize, you can configure the executable to be large address aware to gain access to up to 3 GB of memory on a 32-bit Windows operating system and up to 4 GB of memory on a 64-bit Windows operating system.


For more information, refer to Memory Limits for Windows and Windows Server Releases on the Microsoft website.


Note  LabVIEW 8.5 and later are large address aware. For more information, refer to How Much Memory can LabVIEW 32-bit or 64-bit Use?.

In TestStand 2013 and later, the Large Address Aware flag is enabled by default for the TestStand Sequence Editor and TestStand User Interfaces. For more information, refer to Using the Large Address Aware Flag With TestStand Applications.


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Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10

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