LV FPGA program development without hardware

[ESchell]

I am trying to evaluate an NI FPGA solution to a control problem. I have the LV FPGA software module
through our university license, but I don't have the
hardware. I want to be able to develop a LV vi and
debug it without the hardware. But LV won't let me
create the AI, AO, etc. blocks without the hardware,
even though the FPGA example code does run with those
blocks in LV. Is there some way to work around this?

[Christian_L]

When you have the LabVIEW FPGA module installed, you should be able to target a RIO device in LabVIEW even if you don't have the hardware installed. To change targets in LabVIEW, click the Execution Target pulldown menu in the LabVIEW splash screen or got to Operate>>Switch Execution Target...

Once you are targeted to a RIO target the functions palette on the diagram will change and give you the FPGA specific functions including AI, AO, DIO, etc.

Christian L

[willy-blaise]

Hi,

I am not absolutely sure of what I am writing, but installing NI-RIO drivers may be required to target RIO devices even if none is installed.

Hope this will help,

Willy

[smartkuku]

Installing the RIO does not need the hardware! But even though you write a vi with LV FPGA, it can only be compiled, can not excute, so you must have a RIO hardware to verify your vi.