National Instruments USRP-2942 USRP Software-Defined Radio Device  

The USRP-2942 is a USRP Software Defined Radio Device. National Instruments fabricates the USRP-2942 device. The USRP-2942 device has two part numbers: 783147-01 and 783924-01. The NI USRP-2942 device can be used with the NI instrument driver. The LabVIEW application tool is recommended for installing and programming the USRP-2942 USRP Software Defined Radio Device. The Windows operating systems are compatible with the NI USRP-2942 device.

The NI USRP-2942 USRP Software Defined Radio Device has two types of bus connectors: MXIe and Ethernet. The USRP-2942 device is equipped with a Kintex-7 410T FPGA. There are 2 input channels, as well as 2 output channels available in the USRP Software Defined Radio Device. The NI USRP-2942 is capable of modeling the wireless communication system prototypes based on hardware as well as software systems integration. The NI USRP-2942 contains a reconfigurable input/output (RIO) framework. The transmitter and receiver gain steps for the USRP-2942 USRP Software Defined Radio Device are 0.5 decibels (dB).

The National Instruments USRP-2942 USRP Software Defined Radio Device can work for particular frequency bands with 40 MHz bandwidth. The RF frequency range for the NI USRP-2942 device is from 400 MHz to 4.4 GHz. The USRP-2942 USRP Software Defined Radio Device can be evaluated in MIMO, LTE, beamforming, and cognitive radio applications. The DC input voltage is supplied to the NI USRP-2942 device with a range from 9 V to 16 V. The input current for using the USRP-2942 is a maximum of 7.5 A.