NI: New Capabilities for Comms, Radar, & EW with an SDR-based Research Platform
summary
NI and Ettus present a high‑performance SDR stack centered on the USRP X410 (Xilinx UltraScale+ RFSoC, 4×4 RF, PCIe Gen3 x8, dual QSFP28, 1 PPS/10 MHz) and a documented multi‑channel reference architecture built from 32‑channel N321/N320 systems. The repo supplies optimized UHD streaming engines, C++ modular examples on Ubuntu 20.04, recommended NICs (Intel x710/e810, Mellanox), MATLAB/GPU hooks, LO/octal‑clock distribution, assembly diagrams and measured phase drift <1° over 24h with scalable designs to 8–128 channels.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00NI’s SDR research platform
- 1:03Communications research investments
- 5:19USRP X410 SDR platform
- 8:50USRP X410 key features
- 10:57Radar & EW research platform
- 12:00Multi-channel reference architecture
- 18:00Reference architecture benefits
- 22:58System topology & sync
- 25:0632-channel testbed lab tour
- 27:51Performance metrics
- 30:19Summary & call to action
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