Labview vs Xilinx controller on FPGA

[Doyon]

Hi,

I  have a FPGA : Processor Xilinx XC2S30

and platform : Digilent, Digilab 2XL

Is labview compatible in some ways ?

If yes how ? and,

What Labview can do better than Xilinx (simulink, Matlab)?

If no, what Platform I can use ?

CompactRio seems to be heavy ?

What avantages I can have with this configuration ?

Many Thx

Paul

[billings11]

You basically can only use NI's FPGA cards.  You can't just take an eval board from Xilinx and use labview to program it.  But you can buy a PCIe FPGA card like the R series from NI and program that.

Message Edited by billings11 on 11-09-2007 01:55 PM

[Stephan_A]

Hi,

you might be interested in this:

Using LabVIEW FPGA with the Xilinx SPARTAN-3E XUP

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6930

Regards

Stephan A.

NI

[Nicola Bellaio]

Hi all,

i have a similar problem: I want to communicate (simple things like read&write registers) with a FPGA Xilinx XC3S17 on a Digilent Nexys2 board. I saw that in digilent website there is the library in c/c++..

With a shared library .dll, can I control the FPGA with labview?

Is there anyone that had this problem?

Thanks,

Nicola

[charris]

Nicola:

I can't really speak to your hardware (it isn't going to be officially supported), but if the functionality you need is implemented in the .dll that ships with your board, you could potentially use LabVIEW to call and use the .dll.

Just bear in mind that the hardware interaction has to happen through the .dll, as there isn't any direct support for that hardware in LabVIEW.

Good luck!