More Hz for More Bits: Solving the Wireless Throughput Challenge with More Bandwidth

Full Cover Article on High Frequency Electronics

With the massive expansion in bandwidth, three big trends in the wireless industry have emerged to tackle the wireless throughput challenge. First is the advancement in ADC technology, leading to higher sample rates and driving wider bandwidth in RF instruments. Second is the growing computational power of processors to support the increasing amount of data and advanced signal processing in real-time.  And third is the continuous innovation in the next generation of RF instrumentation to support the advanced RF test techniques and evolving wireless standards. 

As a result, NI recently introduced a new, second generation VST. The NI PXIe-5840 features an RF signal generator and analyzer, each with 1 GHz of bandwidth, and a larger user-programmable Vertex7 690T FPGA to process the entire instrument’s bandwidth in real time.

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