National Instruments FlexRIO adapter module

National Instruments has expanded the NI FlexRIO product family, built on FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O (RIO), to more than 20 modules. Six new adapter modules add I/O including digitiser, signal generation and IF and RF transceiver capabilities. Engineers can pair these NI FlexRIO adapter modules with user-programmable FPGAs to solve almost any test application, from real-time spectrum monitoring and RF modulation/demodulation to signal intelligence and RF communication protocol prototyping.

Because these modules benefit from the parallelism and dataflow programming of the NI LabVIEW RIO architecture, they can be easily used by engineers without VHDL or Verilog knowledge. The combination of NI FlexRIO, LabVIEW system design software and access to more than 600 NI PXI modular instruments gives engineers a commercial off-the-shelf solution that can be customised using FPGA technology.

The NI 5771 8-bit, 3 GS/s digitiser is suitable for pulsing, light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and high-resolution edge detection.

The NI 5772 12-bit, 1.6 GS/s digitiser adapter module is suitable for broadband IF acquisition and real-time spectrum monitoring.

The NI 5782 IF transceiver and NI 5791 RF transceiver are suitable for custom modulation and demodulation, bit error rate testing, signal intelligence (SIGINT) and real-time spectrum analysis.

And the AT-1120 14-bit, 2 GS/s signal generator and AT-1212 2-channel signal generator are suitable for RF communications protocol prototyping, RF record and playback, SIGINT and channel emulation.