NI’s 5G and 6G solutions enable researchers to quickly move from mathematical models to over-the-air testbeds—going beyond simulation to real-world experiments. Testbeds offer the ability to evaluate how new technologies will perform under realistic conditions and their potential for increasing network performance and enabling new services.
Through integration of hardware and software, NI provides flexible solutions for engineers to rapidly prototype and deploy real-time wireless communications systems.
Evolve 5G and 6G Research with SDR Technology
By leveraging software defined radio (SDR) technology, NI solutions combine flexibility and performance to enable researchers to experiment with new concepts and quickly iterate. Co-processing and FPGA acceleration pair with highly capable RF front ends to deliver real-time systems that are ideal for wireless research and prototyping. The modular, open architectures allow hardware and software system extensions to adapt to changing needs as wireless networks evolve beyond 5G.
Accurate test at sub-THz frequencies with extreme-wideband waveforms requires many unique considerations. Learn how NI is enabling fast, accurate, and scalable sub-THz research, prototyping, and validation.
LabVIEW Reference Design for Wireless Research with NI Ettus USRP X410
Learn the function and value of both hardware and software components of an NI LabVIEW Reference Design for Wireless Research solutions. Get detailed specifications, system architecture information and featured NI Partner information.
OAI Reference Architecture for 5G and 6G Research with the USRP
The latest generation of cellular communications standards for 5G are significantly more complex than previous generations. The OAI Reference Architecture for 5G and 6G Research with the USRP is NI’s blueprint for a system that meets key requirements of a hardware testbed for prototyping 5G/6G technology.
Learn the function and value of NI’s OAI reference architecture solution.
NI’s Advanced Prototyping Solution for Communications Research
As wireless systems progress beyond 5G, researchers strive to translate innovations from concept to deployment. Yet migrating IP from simulation to firmware and building testbeds remain time-consuming hurdles.
Explore a comprehensive blueprint that facilitates direct IP migration, seamlessly transitioning simulation designs to real-world hardware and more.
FlexRIO instruments combine large, user-programmable FPGAs and high-performance analog, digital, and RF I/O to offer the flexibility of custom hardware without the cost of custom design.
Featuring large, user-programmable FPGAs and high-speed analog, digital, and RF I/O, FlexRIO provides a fully reconfigurable instrument that you can program graphically with LabVIEW or with VHDL/Verilog. FlexRIO products are available in two architectures. The first architecture incorporates modular I/O modules that attach to the front of a PXI FPGA Module for FlexRIO and communicate over a parallel digital interface, and the second uses high-speed serial converters and features integrated I/O and FPGA technology in a single device. The FlexRIO platform combines hardware, software, and a library of IP for engineers to start building custom designs fast.
Learn more about NI’s high-performance RF hardware, well suited for high-frequency, wideband test applications. This brochure demonstrates the versatility of the PXI platform for RF test, with this example for radar sensor validation.
