The WLAN Measurement Suite now has key features from a new draft wireless standard
NI announced a first access version of the WLAN Measurement Suite with support for the IEEE 802.11ax (draft 0.1) high-efficiency wireless draft standard. The WLAN Measurement Suite, combined with the NI RF Vector Signal Transceiver (VST), enables engineers to measure the performance of their 802.11ax designs with confidence in the presence of significant new changes to the 802.11 physical layer specification. The WLAN Measurement Suite offers researchers, engineers, and technologists the ability and flexibility to generate and analyze a wide range of 802.11 waveforms, such as 802.11a/b/g/n/j/p/ac/ah/af. Now, with the latest 802.11ax bespoke update, these users can speed up development work on 802.11ax devices. The software enables new features of 802.11ax, including tighter subcarrier spacing, 1024-QAM, and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) for multiple users. The updated measurement version also includes Lab-VIEW system design software sample code to help engineers automate WLAN measurements quickly and easily. "The rapid pace of evolution of wireless standards requires instruments that can evolve at the speed of software," said Charles Schroeder, vice president of RF marketing at NI. "Our support for the latest 802.11ax standard draft in the WLAN Measurement Suite is part of the evolution of a platform that scales as connectivity standards change and offers our customers superior RF performance in lab and production environments." The NI platform-based technique helps ensure that engineers can upgrade their existing PXI RF test systems to support 802.11ax device test with a simple software upgrade and continue to do so as the process evolves. of standardization 802.11ax. Engineers can take advantage of this smarter technique for RF testing and help reduce their test cost, as well as better prepare for future connectivity and cellular standardization initiatives such as 5G. For more information on the new WLAN Measurement Suite and 802.11ax, visit http://www.ni.com/white-paper/53150/en.
