WLAN measurement suite software

The wireless local area network (WLAN) test solution from NI can generate and analyse RF signal measurements four times faster than other modular instrumentation solutions and up to 10 times faster than traditional box instruments.

The test solution combines WLAN Measurement Suite software for the National Instruments LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI development environments with NI 6.6 GHz PXI Express RF hardware to deliver increased speed and flexibility for testing IEEE 802.11 a/b/g standards.

Because the solution is software-defined, engineers can configure their same measurement hardware to test more than six other RF communications standards including GPS, WiMAX, Bluetooth and RFID.

The WLAN Measurement Suite claims to offer the industry’s best measurement throughput and flexibility through a software-defined architecture.

With software-defined instrumentation, which consists of modular hardware and user-defined software, engineers can take advantage of the latest CPU technological advances such as multicore processing and parallel programming techniques to achieve the fastest measurement times in the industry with software-defined PXI instrumentation such as the PXI Express RF 6.6 GHz instruments.

Also, with the parallel programming capabilities of LabVIEW, the PXI-based RF measurement times will continue to decrease with each evolution of multicore CPUs, thus maximising measurement performance, increasing system longevity and decreasing capital investment. Because the instrumentation is defined in software, engineers can customise RF measurements for multi-standard devices such as systems on a chip (SOC), mobile phones and radios using the same instrumentation.