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06-10-2010 10:22 AM
Hello,
Last November there was a post in this forum about future support for the X-Series boards in the DDK:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=90&thread.id=1590&page=1
About six months later, I am wondering if there is any projected timeline for this.
thanks very much,
Steve
06-13-2010 03:41 PM
Hello Steve,
At this point in time, there is no definite timeline on the release of X-Series support in the DDK. It is currently still being worked on by our R&D team. I would keep an eye on the release notes of future releases of the DDK to verify the support.
06-14-2010 02:19 PM
02-17-2011 08:31 AM
It's been nearly another year without the X series boards being supported in the DDK. At least the description still doesn't include X series. I didn't download it again to check in detail.
We have an M series driver, but not an X series driver in our product. Lately our customers have been told by NI sales that they should start buying the X series boards instead of the M series boards. That won't work until we can get the register programming information for the new boards. Since our real-time kernel isn't Windows or Linux, we can't use any of your binary drivers.
When might we see some new information?
02-18-2011 11:13 AM
Hi Gordon,
I'm one of the engineers currently working on the X Series DDK project. The code is nearly feature-complete, and we're also polishing the documentation. The X Series DDK will be, what I hope you and others will find, a significant improvement over the M Series DDK. Concerted effort accross several groups is now becoming a very detail-rich code and documentation package.
Finally, the part you've been wanting me to say: we're anticipating a May release 🙂
Joe Friedchicken
NI Configuration Based Software Get with your fellow OS users
[ Linux ] [ macOS ]Principal Software Engineer :: Configuration Based Software
Senior Software Engineer :: Multifunction Instruments Applications Group (until May 2018)
Software Engineer :: Measurements RLP Group (until Mar 2014)
Applications Engineer :: High Speed Product Group (until Sep 2008)
02-18-2011 12:58 PM
Joe,
Thanks for the update. I hope to see it in May and begin my work with it.
Gordon Weast
04-04-2011 01:15 PM
Hi Joe,
As May is getting closer, I have been successful in using the M series package and creating a driver using Labview. We have plans to use a Pcie-6323 on Linux. Are we on pace for a release in May? and also, how much different is this package in comparison to the M series package?
Another side question, are there version numbers to these packages?
04-06-2011 11:27 AM
Hi Thomas,
I'm glad to year you have LabVIEW RLP working for your M Series devices!
The X Series devices use different ASICs than the M Series devices, so the register interface will be different. The design of the chip objects is the same, however, and register classes still have get/set and read/write methods for their bitfields. The differences are in the silicon 😉 You'll see a new DMA controller and some renovated counter objects, but AI and AO will be largely unchanged. Finally, DIO now looks nearly identical to AI/AO. The good news is is that the register space is completely linear and available -- no more windowing around 😄
As far as the distribution goes, there will be examples and a plain-text register map. Also, there will be theory-of-operation documentation, a somewhat lacking piece for M Series (although the E Series RLP manual does cover 90% of M Series programming). I like the suggestion of versioning the releases, but the precedence so far has been a one time initial release online with subsequent clarifications/additions here in the forums. I'll see what I can do.
The examples are feature-complete and are undergoing testing now. I've found a few bugs to fix, and am still reviewing the documentation. I would say that we're still on pace for a May release 🙂
Joe Friedchicken
NI Configuration Based Software Get with your fellow OS users
[ Linux ] [ macOS ]Principal Software Engineer :: Configuration Based Software
Senior Software Engineer :: Multifunction Instruments Applications Group (until May 2018)
Software Engineer :: Measurements RLP Group (until Mar 2014)
Applications Engineer :: High Speed Product Group (until Sep 2008)
05-03-2011 04:56 PM
Hi Joe,
It is now May, and I'm hoping you might have an update for us anxious coders?
Thomas
05-04-2011 05:31 PM
Steve, Gordon, Thomas, et al: (I hope there's a larger audience than three 😉
I do have an update! Example testing is complete. The DDK is still on pace to release this month. Here's what's remaining:
Once those are finished, the DDK is at the mercy of the web admins for posting for download. Still no word on versioning the components. I suspect that discussion will happen when we request the download page update.
Joe Friedchicken
NI Configuration Based Software Get with your fellow OS users
[ Linux ] [ macOS ]Principal Software Engineer :: Configuration Based Software
Senior Software Engineer :: Multifunction Instruments Applications Group (until May 2018)
Software Engineer :: Measurements RLP Group (until Mar 2014)
Applications Engineer :: High Speed Product Group (until Sep 2008)