Show some important resource data on FPGA items (Block RAM, FIFO etc.)

[Intaris]

As somewhat an opposite request to this idea

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-FPGA-Idea-Exchange/Ability-to-define-datatype-of-Registers-FIFOs-fr...

I would like to show some pertinent information to the configuration of certain primitives in FPGA code.

The ability to turn this display on and off just like a label would be very welcome indeed. I'd always have it visible.

I just spent two days tracking down a bug which ended up being an under-dimensioned Block RAM instantiation (and how BRAM indexing works, just throwing bits away instead of coercing the read/write index), something whose configuration is completely hidden from view. Why can't we have some visible elements to show the size of a Block RAM and the Datatype (FXP would do for any given FXP type). Same goes for FIFOs, whether a FIFO is 16 elements or 8192 elements deep is a very important piece of information. And of course I mean only the primitives which instantiate the resources, not FP references for these items, even though the datatype of these would also be a very welcome addition.

[crossrulz]

FIFOs, especially DMA FIFOs, is where this would be most useful for me.

[Terry_ALE]

Totally agree with this one.  Really helps with readability of LabVIEW FPGA code.