National Instruments Introduces 6.6GHz PXI Express RF Vector Signal Analyzer and Vector Signal Generator

(Product News, 6 Aug 2008)

National Instruments has launched a new RF vector signal analyzer, RF vector signal generator and PXI Express 18-slot chassis that offer flexible RF measurements up to 10 times faster than traditional RF instrumentation. The new software-defined modular instruments—the NI PXIe-5663 6.6GHz RF vector signal analyzer and the NI PXIe-5673 6.6GHz RF vector signal generator—are complemented by the NI PXIe-1075 18-slot high-bandwidth chassis. The NI PXIe-5663 can perform signal analysis from 10MHz to 6.6GHz with up to 50MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. The NI PXIe-5673 delivers signal generation from 85MHz to 6.6GHz and up to 100MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. The NI PXIe-1075 is the industry's first PXI Express chassis with PCI Express lanes routed to every slot providing up to 1GBps per-slot bandwidth and up to 4GBps total system bandwidth.

The new RF modular instruments, which take full advantage of high-performance multicore processors, are ideal for high-speed RF and wireless automated test environments. With LabVIEW 8.6 to implement parallel measurement algorithms on multicore CPUs, engineers can use the new RF vector signal analyzer and RF vector signal generator to perform many common RF measurements significantly faster than traditional instruments.

In addition to performance, the new RF modular instruments offer measurement flexibility through a completely software-defined architecture. Engineers can develop and test wireless protocols by simply reconfiguring the software using standard-specific LabVIEW toolkits or writing their own custom modulation algorithms. NI and National Instruments Alliance Partners provide toolkits based on LabVIEW for many current and emerging communications technologies, including WiMAX, GPS, WCDMA, GSM, EDGE, broadcast video, 802.11, Bluetooth, OFDM and MIMO. In addition, engineers can integrate PXI RF instrumentation with more than 1,500 PXI modules including high-speed digitizers, signal generators and precision DC instruments to meet their complete test needs.

The NI PXIe-1075 18-slot chassis provides eight hybrid slots that engineers can use for either PXI Express or PXI hybrid-slot-compatible modules to maximize reuse of existing PXI modules.

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