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May 2019
This file contains important information about NI-mmWave, including installation instructions, new features, a partial list of bugs fixed for NI-mmWave 19.0, and known issues.
Product Security and Critical Updates
Automating the Installation of NI Products
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1
This software installation provides support for customers using the mmWave Transceiver System and mmWave Radio Heads, as specified in the Supported Hardware section. To program your mmWave Transceiver System with or without the mmWave Radio Heads, use the NI-mmWave instrument driver.
The getting started guide for your device provides information about how to install, configure, test, and begin using the mmWave Transceiver System with or without radio heads.
NI-mmWave 19.0 adds support for LabVIEW 2019.
NI-mmWave 18.1 adds support for recent revisions of the PXIe-3610 Waveform Generator and PXIe-3630 Digitizer
NI-mmWave 18.0 includes the following new features:
NI-mmWave 15.3.1 adds support for recent revisions of the mmRH-3602/3642/3652 radio heads
NI-mmWave 15.3 includes the following new features:
NI-mmWave 15.1 includes the following new features:
The following hardware products are supported in all operating systems listed in the Supported Operating Systems section. Refer to the Application Software Support section for information regarding supported application software versions.
NI-mmWave has the following requirements:
NI-mmWave supports Windows 10/8.11/7 SP12 (64-bit).
NI recommends that you have the most recent service pack for your operating system installed.
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.
NI-mmWave supports the following application software versions, including service packs. You should install application software, such as LabVIEW, before installing NI-mmWave. To add support for application software installed after installing NI-mmWave, modify your NI-mmWave installation or launch the NI-mmWave installer again.
| Application Software | Versions Supported by NI-mmWave |
|---|---|
| LabVIEW | 2018, 2019 |
NI-mmWave palette VIs are available on the LabVIEW Functions palette at Functions»Instrument I/O»Instrument Drivers»NI mmWave.
NI-mmWave includes a reference project and several example applications for LabVIEW. You can access the installed NI mmWave Reference Project and examples at <NIDIR>\LabVIEW <Year>\examples\instr\niMmWave.
Note The NI Example Finder does not include NI-mmWave examples.
Note Installed examples are not sample projects. You must copy the example to a new location before modifying any files. Otherwise, your changes may be overwritten.
The documentation set for NI-mmWave is composed of the following documents.
| Document | Format | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting Started Guide for your device | Printed and PDF | Contains software and hardware installation, signal connection, and information on how to get started with application development for your device. | Available at ni.com/manuals |
| Specifications for your device | Lists technical specifications for your device. | Available at ni.com/manuals | |
| NI-mmWave 19.0 Manual | Online help | Contains information on how to use the reference project, as well as conceptual information about instrument driver features. | Visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code mmwavemanual |
| NI-mmWave Readme | HTML (this document) | Contains information about supported hardware and operating systems, new features, fixed issues, and legal notices. | Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-mmWave»Documentation |
For the most recent revisions of documentation and for newly released documentation, visit ni.com/manuals.
Note To view PDFs, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. You can install the viewer from www.adobe.com/reader.
| Item | ADE | Installed Location |
|---|---|---|
| NI-mmWave Examples | NI LabVIEW 2018, 2019 | <NIDIR>\LabVIEW <Year>\examples\instr\niMmWave\ |
NI automates LabVIEW installation using NI Package Manager. Visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code NIPMDownload to download NI Package Manager. Refer to the NI Package Manager Manual for more information about installing, removing, and upgrading NI software using NI Package Manager.
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.
You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code febjx4 for an up-to-date list of known issues in NI-mmWave 19.1.
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in NI-mmWave. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-mmWave. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
There are no changes in NI-mmWave 19.0 from NI-mmWave 18.1.
There are no changes in NI-mmWave 18.1 from NI-mmWave 18.0.
The following items are changes in NI-mmWave 18.0 from NI-mmWave 15.3.1.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 698524 | Fixed multiple issues that caused confusion in the 10GbE example project. |
| 688776 | Fixed an issue that caused I/Q data to be incorrectly truncated when being sent across Aurora streams on the TX FPGA design in the NI-mmWave Reference Project. |
| 644996 | Fixed an issue that caused the NI-mmWave driver to report incorrect coerced frequencies when using the Set Frequency VI. |
The following items are changes in NI-mmWave 15.3.1 from NI-mmWave 15.3.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 600897 | Fixed an issue that caused an installation error to occur when upgrading NI Linux Real-Time Support for NI-mmWave devices. |
| 583667 | Fixed an issue that caused NI-mmWave to incorrectly report the coerced value for out-of-bounds frequencies when using external LO. |
| 582873 | Fixed an issue that caused the PXIe-3620 session to be invalid after aborting the session. |
| 580686 | Fixed an issue that caused NI MAX to expose unsupported features for the PXIe-7902 module. |
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information about automating the installation of NI products, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
Microsoft Windows 10 is the latest version of the Windows operating system and features significant changes compared to previous versions. Windows 10 introduces several new capabilities and also combines features from both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For more information about NI support for Windows 10, visit ni.com/windows10.
When you install NI software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, NI MAX, and NI Launcher. For more information about NI support for Windows 8.1, visit ni.com/windows8.
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