The LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite offers a design environment closely integrated with NI software defined radio (SDR) hardware for rapidly prototyping communications systems. Easily deploy to processors and FPGAs; quickly develop LTE, 802.11, and massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) applications; and drive innovation.

Installation of LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite on a Windows PC

  1. Download the Package
  2. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the PROII102.7z package. Extract the LabVIEW package by right-clicking the package and select “Extract Here.” You will need 7zip or a similar extraction utility to do this. Once extracted, the folder will be in the same directory

  3. Connect to engineering VPN server

  4. Enter the extracted folder, right click and run "bcoeSetup.cmd" as admin to install Labview. Labview will install on its own, and may restart your computer once finished.

  5. To run LabVIEW Communications, make sure you are connected to engineering VPN server and then run the program like you normally would If it fails or didn't install go into /Distribution/Labview Communication Software/ and run the setup.exe in that directory. Input UCR BCOE as the Organization and leave the serial number blank. After installing, launch the NI License Manager goto Options->Preferences... and enable the Volume License Manager and set the address to: labview.engr.ucr.edu


If it fails or didn't install go into /Distribution/Labview Communication Software/ and run the setup.exe in that directory. Input UCR BCOE as the Organization and leave the serial number blank. After installing, launch the NI License Manager goto Options->Preferences... and enable the Volume License Manager and set the address to: labview.engr.ucr.edu

Installation on a Windows Virtual Machine running on Parallels

Please follow the instructions in the linked document.