How close can I come to Realtime with Labview student edition and an Arduino project?

[MustafaMX5]

Hey everyone,

I'm really new to Labview and just recieved the Labview 2012 student edition and I plan to do a project. It came to my concern that after asking the Labview interface for arduino forums, they suggested that it cannot provide realtime.My project in generalwill consist of two arduinos, one with many sensors close to 30 and the second will have many actuators. My question is whether I can come to develop a realtime crucial system or fast processing speeds. Please provide any input.Your time and responses are much appreciated.

[crossrulz]

The code running on the arduinos should be considered real-time.  But the LabVIEW code running on Windows will not be realtime.

[MustafaMX5]

Thanks for replying, but if I may ask, are you implying that when the arduino is programmed it will run in realtime, however when labview interfaces with it isn't. Then if so would you suggest I just program the arduino and then monitor the system using Labview as my GUI.Lastly say I had the two arduinos already programmed with sensors and actuators and they communicate independently without labview, would labview impede on this time critical system.

 Thanks A Lot

[crossrulz]

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@MustafaMX5 wrote:

Thanks for replying, but if I may ask, are you implying that when the arduino is programmed it will run in realtime, however when labview interfaces with it isn't. Then if so would you suggest I just program the arduino and then monitor the system using Labview as my GUI.Lastly say I had the two arduinos already programmed with sensors and actuators and they communicate independently without labview, would labview impede on this time critical system.

 Thanks A Lot

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Anything on a Windows machine is not real-time.  The micro on the arduino is.  You can still program in communications between the micro and LabVIEW and not impede on the real-time operation.  It will take some cycles away, but probably not enough to worry.

[MustafaMX5]

Thanks for replying, so generally can I increase the processing speed or the communication between labview. Would this be a hardware upgrade or a software optimization. Thanks for the input.:manvery-happy:)