Can LabVIEW be compiled to run on an ARM 7 CPU

[ATE Man]

Hi All

Wondered if anybody knows whether it is possible to cross compile LabVIEW code to an ARM7 Embeddded CPU. DO ayny of the LabVIEW add ons allow this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tristan

[Bob_Y.]

Sure.  It is easiest if you use WindowsCE or the Palm OS as the OS on the uP.  Then you can use the PDA toolkits.  The PDA toolkits are much easier to program for, but more expensive to deploy ( OS license + LabVIEW license).  If you choose to not use an OS or use another OS, you will have a lot of work to do, but you can do that as well with LabVIEW embedded (which is also not cheap, but has no per unit licensing fees).  IT IS NOT EASY.  It is do-able, but not easy.

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Hope that this helps,
Bob Young

[ATE Man]

Thanks Bob. I will look into this.

[falkpl]

One interesting point here (disclaimer: I am not an ARM programmer )  The Lego NXT comes out in 2 months, this will use an ARM 32-bit embedded system and the programming language is provided by NI and is some sort of subset of Labview/G programming (details still fuzzy).  I am hoping that this will open the doors to more integration with embedded systems for us long-time labview developers.

Paul

[rolfk]

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@falkpl wrote:

One interesting point here (disclaimer: I am not an ARM programmer )  The Lego NXT comes out in 2 months, this will use an ARM 32-bit embedded system and the programming language is provided by NI and is some sort of subset of Labview/G programming (details still fuzzy).  I am hoping that this will open the doors to more integration with embedded systems for us long-time labview developers.

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I haven't seen Lego NXT so can't say for sure but from what I know it seems it is basically based on a LabVIEW embedded system with the ARM7 as target. Of course most of what the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module is about is entirely hidden from the user.

Rolf Kalbermatter