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Tektronix Brings New HDR and WCG
Support to Industry Leading Waveform Monitors
Tektronix, an industry-leading innovator of video test and
monitoring solutions, today announced a field-installable
software upgrade for its popular WFM/WVR 8000 series
of waveform monitors and rasterizers, adding new support
for monitoring High Dynamic Range (HDR) and ITU-R
Recommendation BT.2020 Wide Color Gamut (WCG)
formats. The upgrades, which will be demonstrated at
the upcoming 2016 IBC exhibition in Amsterdam, assist
camera operators, editors and colorists in easily and
accurately capturing and reproducing highly realistic
video image content that ultimately enhances consumers’
viewing experience.
HDR/WCG formats are gaining new importance when it
comes to acquiring high resolution 4K content. However,
it can be challenging to adjust gamma levels for correct
processing of high fidelity signals throughout the broadcast
chain. A series of new graticules included with the HDR
upgrade allow users to correctly set camera white points
and adjust specular highlights to fully use the dynamic
range of their content.
“Tektronix continues to expand the capabilities of the
industry’s most comprehensive waveform monitors and
rasterizers while protecting our customers’ investments in
video monitoring equipment,” said Charlie Dunn, general
manager, Video Product Line, Tektronix.
The premier annual event for professionals engaged in the
creation, management and delivery of entertainment and
news content worldwide, the IBC exhibition is being held
9-13 Sept., 2016 in Amsterdam and is expected to draw
more than 55,000 attendees from 170 countries and will
feature products from over 1,600 exhibitors. Tektronix will
be demonstrating its full range of industry leading video
test and monitoring solutions in Stand 10 D41.
NI Announces World’s First Application
Framework for Massive MIMO to Speed
Innovation in 5G Prototyping
NI (Nasdaq: NATI), the provider of platform-based
systems that enable engineers and scientists to
solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges,
today announced the world’s first MIMO Application
Framework. When paired with NI software defined
radio hardware, this software reference design provides
a well-documented, reconfigurable, parameterized
physical layer written and delivered in LabVIEW source
code that enables researchers to build both traditional
MIMO and Massive MIMO prototypes.
The LabVIEW Communications MIMO Application
Framework enables wireless designers to develop
algorithms and evaluate custom IP to solve many of
the practical challenges associated with real-world
multiuser MIMO deployments. Scalable from 4 to 128
antennas, the MIMOApplication Framework, when used
with the NI USRP RIO and NI PXI hardware platforms,
enables users to create small to large scale antenna
systems with minimal system integration or design
effort. Researchers can use the system out of the box
to conduct Massive MIMO experiments and seamlessly
integrate their own custom signal processing algorithms
in a fraction of the time compared to other approaches,
thereby accelerating the overall design process as the
wireless industry races to define 5G.
As participants in NI’s RF/Communications Lead User
program, researchers at Bristol University have used
NI’s flexible prototyping platform for 5G research and
recently announced in conjunction with Lund University
a world-record 22-fold increase in spectral efficiency
over modern day 4G networks.
Find more information on the new Massive MIMO
Application Framework at
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