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LabVIEW
Design time and Runtime licenses
EventTrigger wrote:We are planning to use the Compact RIO for industrial process control and logging of values for furthur analysis.
As we are new to the NI products, would like to know, what kind of licenses will be required for this purpose, like design time and run time licenses. The system end-user is not interested in having a development license at his end.
Is it possible to have only the run-time licenses at the user end?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
Obviously you will need the LabVIEW development environment and according Extensions to develop the software. So this means you will need the LabVIEW development system and either the RealTime Extension or the FPGA Extension or both, depending how you will setup your applicationon the CompactRIO system.
For your end user you would not need any specific runtime licenses as long as you use NI hardware, since the cRIO controller comes with the necessary runtime license already for the realtime OS on the controller and the cRIO backplane comes with the runtime license for the FPGA code.
LabVIEW build applications in itself do also not need a seperate runtime license since the development system license gives you the right to distriibute your host application with the LabVIEW runtime engine. This would get different if you use any of the Toolkits such as Vision Development, Sound and Vibration, Datalogging, Supervisor and Control or similar which do all have their ownruntime license that needs to be purchased for every deployed application that makes use of their functionality.
Rolf Kalbermatter
