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Thomas09

Easier NI-MAX access to CAN-Modules NI-9862 in cRIO

Status: New

Currently viewing, testing or configuring NI-9862 Modules in a cRIO using NI-MAX needs a lot of effort. It requires:

- Installation of the complete Labview Realtime and FPGA development suite on the connected PC

- Setting up a Labview project including the NI-9862 Modules and an empty FPGA VI

- Compiling the emty FPGA VI to a FPGA bitmap file

- Starting the FPGA VI

Without these steps the NI-9862 Modules are invisible in NI-MAX

 

Proposed improvement:

- NI-MAX should include a default FPGA bitmap file that includes the communication with NI-9862 modules

- When the user connects to the cRIO with NI-MAX, the current cRIO configuation should be automatically saved to a backup and the default bitmap file should be activated

- When the user disconnects, the backup should be restored

 

Advantage:

- viewing, testing or configuring NI-9862 Modules in a cRIO could be possible just by starting the NI-MAX and connecting to the cRIO, as simple as with any standard I/O modules.

  • Target Hardware and IO Support
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JefeL
Active Participant

We aware of this pain point for our cusotmers are are working to improve the overall experience. Technical limitations have prevented us from including native support for NI-MAX functinoality on our older cRIO devices. We have been able to improve the experience with cRIOs that run Linux-RT such as the 903x series which include native support by default. In a cRIO-903x, a XNET C-Series device can be detected and updated in MAX without the need to compile a bitfile etc. 

Jeff L
National Instruments