Averna PXI Tester Records and Plays Back RF and GPS Signals

Select National Instruments Alliance Partner Averna Technologies Inc. has announced the Universal Receiver Tester (URT) 4.0, which includes the first RF signal Record & Playback system designed specifically for in-vehicle RF recording.

Using PXI products from National Instruments, the URT generates analog and digital public broadcast signals compliant with common standards such as AM/FM, RDS/RDBS, Sirius, XM, DAB, IBOC, GPS, TMC over RDS, DARC, and audio and video. With the URT toolkits and the complete suite of automated tests for NI TestStand test management software, you can easily customize your test solution.

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The Averna Universal Receiver Tester (URT) can record and play back RF signals in 17 different protocols to test and analyze your device.

The URT RF signal Record & Playback system is the most compact in-vehicle RF recording system on the market today. You can record live transmissions for subsequent playback, resolving the challenge of simultaneously emulating all of the typical signal impairments in a lab environment. This solution reduces field testing during the validation phase.

For commercial GPS receiver testing, the URT can emulate the signal from up to 12 satellites with complete framing information. Averna is also developing a feature-rich version of the platform that integrates the capability of a traffic message channel simulator to generate all the RF signals required for navigation system testing. The URT is available from Averna or from its representatives in China, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. 

View URT data sheets on audio, video, GPS, and record-and-playback applications.

This article first appeared in the Q3 2008 issue of Instrumentation Newsletter. 

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