LabVIEW Idea Exchange
I’ve already put up ideas, about 7 weeks ago, for four development boards that could be LabVIEW targets:
1) LabVIEW for Raspberry Pi (current kudos 139)
2) LabVIEW for Arduino Due (current kudos 74)
3) LabVIEW for BeagleBoard (current kudos 49)
4) LabVIEW for LM3S9D96 Development Kit (current kudos 15)
I wanted to leave it at that to gauge LabVIEW community/user interest, however an exciting new board has just been introduced, which is too good to leave out. It’s the Texas Instruments Stellaris Launchpad.
It’s very attractive for three main reasons:
1) It is very easy to get LabVIEW Embedded for ARM to target this board (a Tier 1 port)
2) The microcontroller is powerful with many useful on-chip peripherals
3) The price is extraordinarily low.
The Stellaris Launchpad features are:
- ARM Cortex M4 with floating point unit running at 80 MHz (100 MIPS)
- 256 KB flash
- 32 KB SRAM
- USB device port (separate from the USB for programming/debugging)
- 8 UARTS
- 4 I2C
- 4 SSI/SPI
- 12 x 12 bit A/D channels
- 2 analog comparators
- 16 digital comparators
- Up to 49 GPIO
- and more
The most interesting feature is that it costs $4.99 including postage. Yep, just under five dollars! Including postage! I’ve already ordered two!
The Texas Instruments Stellaris Launchpad can be programmed using the free Code Composer Studio in C/C++ or the free Arduino IDE using Energia from github. Both great ways to program. It just needs LabVIEW as the third exciting programming option.
Wouldn’t it be great to program the Stellaris Launchpad in LabVIEW?
