What is Digital Signal Transceiver Driver?

Digital Signal Transceiver Driver (DST) is a software driver that enables a NI high-speed serial instrument with custom firmware to do one or both of the following:

  • Perform as a signal generation instrument that digitally transfers RF vector (I/Q) signals to a digital transmit-receive module (digital TRM)
  • Perform as a signal acquisition instrument that digitally transfers RF vector (I/Q) signals from a digital TRM

Key Features

Digital Signal Transceiver Driver has the following features and capabilities:

  • Up to 2 GHz IBW (instantaneous bandwidth) of digital throughput
  • Multi-channel digital waveform acquisition and generation
  • Configurable I/Q records with reference triggering
  • Waveform generation from disk or onboard DRAM (dynamic random access memory)
  • Interfaces with NI-RFmx API for spectral, demodulation, or custom measurements
  • Cross-domain synchronization with a Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) for synchronized digital-to-RF and RF-to-digital parametric measurements