Integration of sbRIO9607 RMC serial ports with LV-RT VISA?

[heel]

How to include additional Serial ports though RMC connector on sbRIO9607 using VISA?

More detailed expressed: sbRIO9607 (single board RIO) can have additional RS232 serial ports added through the RIO Mezzanine Card (RMC) port using the general IO pins.

In the RIO Mezzanine Card Design Guide: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/375536a.pdf on page 24,25  it says about this

You can use any FPGA pins to implement additional RS-232 ports.
Number of interfaces:
• sbRIO-9607—4 (Serial2, Serial3, Serial4, Serial5)

Provided the necessary RMC board electronics interfaces to an appropriate RS-232 or RS-485 serial transceiver on the RMC design as described in the above document is available.

Question:
A) Suppose that the LabVIEW-RT should be able to communicate through this port (or ports). Does one have to implement a serial port FPGA block in the FPGA?

B) If so, how do I define and connect this as a SerialX port to LV-RT such that it can be addressed using VISA standard interface VI's?

[nathand · Accepted solution]

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heel wrote:

Question:
A) Suppose that the LabVIEW-RT should be able to communicate through this port (or ports). Does one have to implement a serial port FPGA block in the FPGA?

B) If so, how do I define and connect this as a SerialX port to LV-RT such that it can be addressed using VISA standard interface VI's?

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A) No, this is handled automatically.

B) When you create a CLIP (Component-Level IP) for your RMC device, you define which lines are used for the serial port, as shown in the screenshot below:

[heel]

nathand,

thanks a lot. Exactly what I was needing. So the CLIP tool is the magic key here.

[Chishti]

Can you please guide me how to access the onboard serial port of sbrio 9607. I've been trying to access the serial port from the last week but couldn't able to fix the problem neither I'm able to use other nor the onboard although I'm following the procedure. Please tell me. Thanks