5G test demo lined up for European Microwave Week

These include advanced solutions for spectrum monitoring and electronic warfare using the new NI controller for FlexRIO and PXIe-5668R 26.5 GHz RF signal analyser and a 5G demonstration highlighting LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite and GFDM waveform technology.

High-volume, parallel wireless production test using NI’s new Wireless Test System (WTS) will also be on show.

Each of these applications requires consuming, processing and storing massive amounts of analogue data, and is part of the Big Analog Data challenge. In electronic warfare applications, engineers are designing systems to acquire, analyse, and sometimes generate gigabytes in real time.  

Similarly, with 5G prototyping, systems are required to aggregate and process massive amounts of data from multiple antennas in order to achieve gigabits per second of data throughput. The NI platform addresses these challenges by utilising signal-processing tools such as FPGAs and multi-core CPUs through the abstraction capabilities of graphical system design software such as LabVIEW.

In addition to the technical demonstrations in the exhibition at European Microwave Week, NI will also be hosting the second annual RF and Microwave PA Forum, focusing on the device technologies, characterisation, modeling and end-use applications of RF and microwave power amplifiers (PAs).

NI will also be presenting a number of MicroApps papers on topics such as phased-array radar systems, millimeter wave product design and pulsed power measurements.