RF communications pallet

[shjukheter]

Hello,

           I am quiet familiar with labVIEW programming and I never use RF communications pallet for my developments. Next week, I am going to attend an interview and I saw in their products list that they are dealing with RF microwave antennas. I have had enough knowledge to defend theoretical questions about RF and wave propagation. My worry is about labVIEW programming especially with RF communications pallet. Does any have any examples or descriptions about these functions?

                                   Thank you.

[smercurio_fc]

What RF communications palette? Is this from a toolkit? Is this an NI toolkit? If so, the documentation for the toolkit will be available on the NI site. If it's somebody else's toolkit, we can't help unless you tell us what it is, and even then, you'd be better off going to the vendor site.

[shjukheter]

I am using LV2011 and it resides directly in LV realtime functions. The company that I am going to attend are making RF Microwave antennas. I wonder about hoe LV useful in that making. Can you draw anything from it?

[MarcoMauri]

Hi,

here you can find some material about Labview and RF:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3997 

and here,too:

http://www.ni.com/academic/communication_curriculum.htm 

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/11532 

Marco

[ejkaiser]

I guess that Labview cannot offer that much specific to antenna design. Of course they will probably be using a lot of test equipment like signal generators, receivers, amplifiers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers and the like. You can use Labview to control the stuff and do data acquisition. But this is not specific to RF and you don't need an RF toolkit for it. You need the instrument drivers.

If it comes to real antenna design, I am using either Finite Element tools like COMSOL Multiphysics or NEC, that is moment based antenna modeling. Might be useful for you to look into this before your interview,

Cheers

Edgar