Second NI VST Extends Software-Designed Instrumentation Platform
February 27, 2013. National Instruments has announced its second vector signal transceiver, the NI PXIe-5645R, which is built on a software-designed architecture that engineers can modify with NI LabVIEW to meet their specific needs. The new vector signal transceiver adds a high-performance, differential or single-ended I/Q interface to test both the RF and baseband signals of a device with a single instrument for faster test times using the latest PC and FPGA technologies.
“The software-designed architecture of the new NI PXIe-5645R vector signal transceiver provides users with unprecedented flexibility for applications such as RF transceiver baseband test,” said Jin Bains, NI vice president of RF R&D.
Product features include
- 65-MHz to 6-GHz frequency range, 80 MHz instantaneous bandwidth, and 24 channels of high-speed digital I/Q;
- baseband I/Q interface with 16-bit data sampled at 120 MS/s with up to 80 MHz of complex bandwidth, configurable as differential or single ended; and
- open, programmable FPGA that engineers can customize to add user-defined functionality.
Users can download prebuilt and modifiable IP for the most common applications at www.ni.com/vst/. The company is highlighting the new instrument this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.