LabVIEW FPGA Course for 193426B-01L

[VInoob]

Hello,

I just purchased an older FPGA eval board and have spent the last couple of weeks figuring out how to program it and finally managed to get all the right drivers. I have managed to compile the example from the manual, which is just to verify everything works having 2 leds turn on depending on switch 0 and button 0 input.

Now I am at a cross road of how to learn utilizing this board. Right now it looks like I will follow tutorials meant for other boards and just apply the ideas on this board. The tutorial linked below utilizes this eval board for one of the topics. I believe the other board used is different but same FPGA just don’t have the same peripherals. I’m making this post to see if anyone has any material that was made to learn directly from this board. I am aware that it is pretty old and plan to move onto a MyRIO after this to also start learning Real Time, but this is expensive so in the meantime while I save I will learn from the eval board. Thank you guys for the help.

Chip: Xilinx Spartan XC3S500E

Board: CCA 193426B-01L

Manual Link: https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/372809b/resource/372809b.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoq7whoaxk-9f7-K6IhJEC...

Tutorial I plan on learning from first: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Curriculum-and-Labs-for/digsys-00-Digital-Circuits-and-Systems-with-LabVIEW...

[softball]

Hi

I had forgotten all about that board.

It is a very nice educational board that allows you to upload FPGA code using JTAG. Very down to basics. I like that.

Newer solutions like the myRIO hides all that behind the curtains. All GUI.

The successors were the ELVIS product line. Which NI lost interest in and left to Digilent ( NI bought it ).

So look into Digilent offerings. They might not be LabVIEW supported. But look at it this way. Programming FPGA is a craft. And most time as a FPGA programmer is spend fitting everything into the usually limited FPGA space. You cannot do that using the LabVIEW-to-FPGA compiler.

Best of luck of finding the proper path forward.