PXI-5610 to PXI-5600 loopback

[Mister_Rose]

OK. I use "MT RFSG Generate FSK.vi" to generate a signal at 291.3 MHz.Setup attached below. I then Run the "5660 Acquire Spectrum and IQ.vi" VI and I get the following error.

Is there another widget that I can use to see the signal output from the signal generator?

niScope Initialize.vi<ERR>Insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system.

[JÞB]

The shipping examples are week with legacy DAQ devices.  NI only knows why.  

As Tbob sugested - time to call an NI app engineer.  might I sugest a NAME?  see above post with quote from an NI app eng...

[Mister_Rose]

I'm slowly getting to the answer. Technical Support sent me the following email.


The it seems like you are using PXI 5660 hardware which is based of old T-daq hardware. The best way to get started with NI 5660 is with the getting started which can be found here http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/375483a.pdf look at page 8 for the hardware connections. You can use 5660 Demo panel to see if your RFSA works or not.

As far as RFSG here is the getting started http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371356g.pdf

These two are the good resources especially for getting started with RFSA and RFSG. Do let me know in case if you have any questions.


In the first document, they indicated there is the NI 5660 Soft Front Panel, which seemed to start up and identify the two boards by their legacy DAQ numbers. But when the program ran, I got the following error.


Possible reason(s):
Driver Status:  (Hex 0xBFFA2003)
Maximum time exceeded before the operation completed.

Possibly no trigger received.  Buffers done: 0, Points done: 0.000000.


The trigger was set to Immediate. I also tried various configurations of external, internal, and software and they all gave the same error.

[nayer]

Hello Brian,

Here is something to try. Open RFSG Single Tone Generation.vi  from the RFSG example folder, which can be found here C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW <your version>\examples\instr\niRFSG. Run the VI set the Center frequency at 1GHz and power level is 0dBm.

Run that then open ni5660 Demo Panel from Start>>All Programs>> National Instruments>> NI RFSA

It willautomatically find your Downconvertor and Digitizer number, once you click OK, set the hardware setting as shown in the below figure

Also make sure that you have connected the cables as per the page 8 of this manual. Also make sure you are connecting SMA to SMA cable between RFOUT of 5663 and RF IN of 5660. Do let us know if you still getting error.

Thanks

NI-khil

[Mister_Rose]

OK, I think I have it mostly working. I am using the "MT RFSG Generate FSK.vi" to generate a signal. I found "ni5660 Getting Started Spectrum.vi" in the examples, and this appears to read the spectrum correctly.

RFSG Single Tone Generation.vi works for generation as well.

I'm not sure why the others do not work, but this one does.

Thanks for all the help.