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Averna builds Record & Playback System for Car Radio and GPS System Testing based on PXI Technology

IAV Automotive Engineering Inc., a Michigan-based company that tests and validates car radios and GPS receivers for the world’s top automakers, needed a way to gain reproducibility and repeatability for RF signal testing, a solution that would help them curb time-consuming and costly field testing as well as further improve device quality.

Solution

Averna created a turnkey system that records real-world RF signals, impairments and environmental data for convenient playback in the lab at any time, and that is built on the strength of high-bandwidth NI PXI products. Averna is helping IAV to build a custom reference library for long-term test efficiency.
 

Conclusion

“When you’re dealing with the most prestigious automakers in the world, quality is of the utmost concern,” said Hans-Joachim Tepper, Test Engineer at IAV. “The high-throughput RF streaming capabilities of NI PXI technology has made it efficient for us to record and play back all common analog and broadcast signals in use today, including AM/FM, GPS and HD Radio™ (IBOC), as well as a stunning range of impairments. The URT Record and Playback System by Averna was instrumental in packaging those capabilities, and giving us the repeatability we needed to meet the exacting standards of our customers. We are confident that this solution will help us to significantly improve our long-term test efficiency.”

 

Authors

Etienne Frenette
Business Development Manager
Averna, Canada

Hans-Joachim Tepper
Test Engineer
IAV, Germany

Jeremy Goddard,
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
IAV, USA

 

Products used

  • LabVIEW 8.5
  • NI PXIe-1065
  • NI PXIe-8106
  • NI PXIe-5672
  • NI PXI-5661