LabView and Serial Interface

[armin]

Hi
Together with LabView 6.0.2 (6533 PCI Card) I wanna use a serial peripheral interface (SPI).
I'm looking for technical details about the SCK,
specially the possible clock rates.
Useful would be of course some examples how
to use a SPI together with LabView.

Thanks for any hint
Armin

[Zvezdana S.]

Armin,
Depending on the vendor of the hardware you are using on SPI bus, you should have appropriate programming hardware and software from that vendor.
Then research what kind of binary format your programming hardware uses for this type of hardware.
And then you can prepare binary image of that hardware in LV to program it say through RS232 if your programmer hardware connects to this port.
You may also look at this DeveloperZone post:
http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RNAME=ViewQuestion&HOID=50650000000800000030110000&ECategory=LabVIEW.LabVIEW+General
and contact that alliance member for assistance in programming.
Hope this helps

Zvezdana S.
National Instruments

[Filipe A.]

Armin;

The best approach for you is to study how the signals in the SPI work and by having that information you can use the 6533 board in either pattern I/O or burst mode to make that board talk with your device.
Hope this helps.
Filipe