The accelerated pace of 5G standardisation is driving intense pressure to bring products to market quickly.
NI’s sub-6GHz 5g NR reference solution is a cost-effective and high-performance option for test that helps engineers quickly characterise their designs and more easily transition from R&D to production test environments.
The new reference test solution from NI is well-suited for testing new wideband RFICs, especially those operating in the 3.3-4.2GHz and 4.4-5.-GHz bands. ,
Engineers can test devices operating with 400MHz of continuous signal bandwidth and beyond with the PXIe-5840 Vector Signal Transceiver (VST), which includes
1 GHz of instantaneous signal generation and analysis bandwidth up to 6GHz.
With the NI VST, the solution delivers residual EVM performance better than 0.32% (50dB) for 100MHz NR signals along with faster measurement speed.
A critical component of this solution is NI-RFmx NR measurement software. Which has evolved in conjunction with the 3GPP specification.
The latest version of NI-RFmx NR measurement software offers 5G NR waveforms and measurement capability compliant with the first official specification of 3GPP Release 15 for non-standalone NR, which empowers engineers to test both OFDMA and DFT OFDM carrier aggregated waveforms with flexible subcarrier spacing from 15-120kHz.