UBX status quo?

[OK1SFU]

Hello,
does anybody please have an experience with using N210 together with the UBX-40 daughter board in LabView?

The actual NI USRP driver documentation (http://www.ni.com/download/ni-usrp-15.0/5679/en/) is still somehow vague and reserved on its support, which seems a bit surprising, provided that Ettus Research is now "A National Instruments Company" and UBX is their flagship RF front-end...

Thank you very much in advance for your comments or hints.

Kind regards,
Tom

[jozef.liptak]

Hello Tom,

the readme for USRP drivers states:

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Supported Hardware

The following hardware products are supported under Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit* versions), Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit* versions)/7 (32-bit and 64-bit* versions)/Vista (32-bit and 64-bit* versions)/XP operating systems.

• ...
• Ettus Research USRP2**
• Ettus Research N200**
• Ettus Research N210**
• Ettus Research X300**
• Ettus Research X310**

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** The NI-USRP instrument driver supports WBX, SBX, XCVR2450, LFTX, LFRX, BasicTX, and BasicRX daughterboards on this device. Other daughterboards may also be compatible, but they have not been tested.

Device-specific information about these modules is included in the NI-USRP Help.

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So N210 with a WBX, SBX, XCVR2450, LFTX, LFRX, BasicTX, or BasicRX daughterboard should work with NI-USRP 15.0. 

I would not count on UBX... There are some indices, that RnD will try to implement also UBX to the NI-USRP 15.5 driver, still it is not for sure. The best idea is to buy NI USRP if you want to program in LabVIEW or buy Ettus USRP if you want to program in OpenSource things...

[ErikL]

As a general rule we are careful not to pre-announce new products on these discussion forums. However I can say that UBX support is in work and if you need more information you may send questions to labview.communications@ni.com

[muffin.vi]

Support for the UBX-160 daughterboard is now offered in LabVIEW. The USRP 2944 and 2954 were just released, and both use the UBX daughterboard. The 2944 has two UBX-160 daughterboards, for 10 Mhz - 6 GHz of frequency range, and 160 MHz of Real-Time bandwidth. The 2954 is the same, but with an added GPS-disciplined Oscillator.   

Talk to your local NI Field Engineer if you would like more info!