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Hi, this is Mark. I'm at NIWeek 2013 onboard the NI LabVIEW Campus Tour Bus. In this application,
I want to show you how you can teach wireless and digital communications using NI LabVIEW
and the NI USRP. NI USRP is a very low-cost wireless receiver-transceiver. It stands for
Universal Software Radio Peripheral. Traditionally, when you're teaching digital communications,
it's very mathematically-focused. The NI USRP provides a hands-on solution that allows students
to actually apply the concepts that they're learning in a digital communications course.
We're using NI LabVIEW, and we have our two transmit signals using the two USRPs, and
then we are decoding both of those transmit signals that are being sent wirelessly so
that we can actually represent what the data is using our two constellation plots. An important
note is that we've incorporated a mass script code so that you can apply in a mathematical
algorithm using previous algorithms that are designed with .m files and incorporating that
into the LabVIEW environment so that we can take our measurements and understand how to
do our modulation schemes in LabVIEW. So this is one example of how you can teach digital
communications using NI USRP and NI LabVIEW onboard the Campus Tour Bus.