Temperature Calibration

The NI 5610 thermally compensates to account for changes in gain with hardware temperature. The uncompensated gain of the NI 5610 upconverter module drifts at a rate of approximately 0.05 dB per degree Celsius.

To compensate for this drift, calibration coefficients are saved into the onboard nonvolatile memory of the module during calibration. These coefficients are used by NI-RFSG to compensate for variations in gain and frequency-dependent effects resulting from temperature changes.