LabVIEW 2010 FPGA Driver for Xilinx SPARTAN 3E Starter Board

[wedo]

Brad,

Concerning the StrataFlash example that I have done longtime ago. Now, you confirm my suspicions that the problem is not in my code. All Intel’s related documentation has already read and followed very carefully in addition to Xilinx documentation to build this example.

I had a plane to write a VHDL code to check the StrataFlash, then integrate the code in Labview FPGA using CLIP or HDL Node, but I haven’t find a free time to do it yet.

Thanks for making this issue clear.

wedo

[BradM · Accepted solution]

wedo,

The installer for LabVIEW 2010 support for the Spartan 3E Starter board is now available from the Spartan 3E Starter kit support page

[wedo]

Thanks a lot BradM!

[zcx83]

Thanks a lot!!

[charlysed]

hello I am an academic user (student)     sorry for intruding with another topic, I can not find what I'm looking for

I am working with spartan3e and labview2009-mofulefpga. I am designing an impedance meter to measure cables that working with frequencies between 1-2 MHZ.

         I need to generate a signal with dds method . That signal is taken out of DAC (A,B,C,or D) and introduced in a block (PCB),

         I saw an example (to begin) in this website:

                                     http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/6066

         but I can' t to do run the files (for example FPGA DDS Generation Sine 1-ch ), because that examples are designed to  targets NI RIO , and labview 8.5.1

My questions is: How I can set the parameters to run the files on spartan 3e??  How could I get the signal generated? Is there some information about dds on spartan 3e with labview 2009?

please advise  

[BradM]

charlysed,

The biggest issue that you will run into when trying to use that DDS example on the Spartan 3E board is the lack of dedicated LabVIEW FPGA AIO resources for the Spartan target.  You can use the examples that we provide with the installer (${LVDIR}/Examples/Spartan-3E/Converters/) to see how to use the on-board DACs to get the same functionality as the built-in AIO resources of the traditional R-Series boards.

After taking care of that, I would suggest using the DevZone article as a guide and re-write the implementation in 2009.  While the example should work in 2009 (after changing the design to work with your hardware), I would imagine that you would get a better understanding of the core concept if you were to re-write the example.

Hope this helps.

[charlysed]

thank you brad, im traying with de examples in (${LVDIR}/Examples/Spartan-3E/Converters/), but i have problems to re-write the implementation in 2009,  I have problems setting up the lookup table, 

I keep trying  

kind regards

[BradM]

charlysed,

Please refer to this document for details on how to use the 1-D lookup table.

[AProfessor]

We really apretiate NI can support and release drivers for the Spartan 3E 1600K.  Here in the University we have many 1600K boards and we need to use them in a Labview enviroment.  The University bougth a Labview NI license and we want to take a full advantage of it in all couses. Thanks.

[wedo]

I tried many times to contact NI technical support about supporting a driver for Spartan-3E Dev. Board (1600K). They informed me that they have no plan to do this, at least for the current time.

The driver doesn’t require that much time since both kits have the same peripherals on board except the number of the FPGA gates.

I wish that they reconsider this matter.