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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: LabView 8.20
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 August 2006
Graphical programming aids telecomms
design
LabView 8.20 is the 20th anniversary edition of the LabView graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system design development.
Available from National Instruments, LabView 8.20 is the 20th anniversary edition of the LabView graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system design development NI LabView 8.20 extends the popular LabView graphical programming platform with communications design, simulation and test tools specifically tailored to the needs of telecomms design and test engineers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The LabView 8.20 platform includes the new Modulation Toolkit, a flexible software-defined approach to communications system design and test that builds on the intuitive LabView dataflow programming language.
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Examples included with the Modulation Toolkit for LabView 8.20 demonstrate orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), a communications technique to increase bandwidth and signal immunity that is being used in the latest IEEE802.11n Wi-Fi and 4G cellular applications.
The Modulation Toolkit for LabView 8.20 makes it possible to develop models to simulate communications systems and evaluate parameter and design decisions, as well as reuse and integrate this code with RF test equipment to perform signal measurements and bit-error-rate tests (BERT) for complete product testing.
"New high-bandwidth buses, such as PCI Express, are giving virtual instrumentation and desktop computers the power to process enormous amounts of complex IF and RF data in communications applications", said Dr James Truchard, NI President, CEO and Cofounder.
"With LabView 8.20, engineers can intuitively develop design models and measurement applications through a graphical programming notation that naturally represents the data flow of communications systems".
The introduction of LabView 8.20 includes a significant new innovation called MathScript, a math-oriented textual programming language generally compatible with the m-file scripts created using MATLAB software.
With MathScript, engineers can reuse their existing m-file scripts created using the Matlab software, or create new scripts with LabView.
By doing this, they can mix and match graphical and text-based approaches for generating stimulus signals or performing measurements on complex communications signals. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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