NI - Mindready Improve Platform for Generating Analog and Digital Radio Signals

Mindready has announced the latest software-defined radio toolkit release, the Universal Radio Tester (URT) Version 3.0. The URT is a highly flexible, compact and affordable solution used for generating analog and digital radio frequency signals based on National Instruments PXI hardware and NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand software.

“We are currently developing and manufacturing a digital radio module for automobiles, and, as part of the development process, we must ensure that the module will work reliably under real conditions for several hours (up to 1,500 hours continuously). Thus, we needed a stable signal generator,” said Masayuki Fukushima, senior engineer at Toko KK in Japan. “By simply adding software modules, the URT is able to address worldwide analog and digital modulation schemes, which is an advantage that no other signal generator offers.”

Mindready designed the DARC Toolkit specifically to meet Japanese market needs. It was developed to simulate FM multiplex broadcasting, which provides services such as general information, traffic information, radio paging and differential GPS data by multiplexing digital signals with existing FM stereo broadcasting signals. The GPS 1-Channel Toolkit and the NTSC-PAL Analog Video Software Toolkit were developed to address the needs of manufacturers who design navigation system.


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