How to combine the use of 5640R and up/down converters(5600 and 5610)?

[xy_se]

Hi,
Since 5640R is only a digital IF rather than a RF front end, It needs to be cascaded to a RF front end in order to send out/receive the RF signals. What I have now are:
1.5640R
2.5600 down converter
3.5610 up converter
4.Labview 8.2/8.5

I have downloaded NI 5640R 1.2, and will choose the API driver to develop my design rather than directly using the FPGA module. For the up/down converter, I thought iy might need some API drivers.So I searched NI website,but I only find these two: RFSA and RFSG. I found that in RFSA and RFSG, the hardware already consists of another type of digitizer rather than 5640R.I guess they may not work for my case. So can anyone help me? Also, is there any exsiting example related to my kind of hardware combination?

Thanks!
                                                                    Sunny

[Speedy_Badger]

Sunny,

For this type of application you will need to control the PXI-5600 and PXI-5610 as seperate modules, in addition to the PCI-5640R. To do this you will need the following APIs:

NI-5640R

NI-RFSA

NI-RFSG

NI-RFSA will install a sub-API called NI-Tuner which can be used to control the 5600 as seperate module. For the 5610, you will use the Upconverter Only mode in NI-RFSG. There are several shipping examples for each of these cases which can be found as below:

<Your LabVIEW directory>\Examples\examples\instr\niTuner

<Your LabVIEW directory>\Examples\examples\instr\niRFSG

You can use these APIs in parallel with the NI-5640R instrument driver.

Hope that helps!