Communications system suite tackles wireless designs

The LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite combines software-defined radio (SDR) hardware with a comprehensive software design flow to help engineers prototype 5G systems. This environment enables the entire design team to map an idea from algorithm to FPGA using a single high-level representation.

The tool includes built-in application frameworks for Wi-Fi and LTE LabVIEW. Included is the USRP-2942R RIO SDR platform — an integrated hardware and software solution for rapidly prototyping high-performance wireless communication systems. It features a state-of-the-art dual RF transceiver with high-performance Kintex-7 FPGA processing in a half-1U rack-mountable enclosure. The Kintex-7 FPGA is a reconfigurable LabVIEW FPGA target that incorporates DSP48 coprocessing for high-rate, low-latency applications. Communications System Design Suite, including 1 year SSP, $20,000.