NI Arabia Academic Day 2012

[A.A.A.]

Guys!

I want to ask you about a device.

There was a "lottery" in the end of the event and I won a national instruments device.

Its called  NI Single-Board Rio quick reference

sbRIO - 961x/963x/964x

where is this device used? how to use it? what is it used for?

how is it different from the Ni elvis?

EDIT: what should I install too to work with this device

Best

[P@Anand]

Congrats first for getting a wonderful controller. You can find the details about the controller in the NI site itself or else you should be having the specification along with the controller. You cannot compare both because both have different functionality. You have FPGA onboard which enables you for data acquisition and processing at a very high rate and it can be used stand alone. ( I remeber while doing academics we played with that and at that time I was a beginner so not able to utilize it properly).

[Spex]

Hi A.A.A.

Congratulations on your recent prize.  It sounds like you won an NI Single-Board RIO or the LabVIEW Embedded Evaluation kit, based on Single-Board RIO.

For getting started, I would recommend the following content.  From a programming and functionality standpoint, CompactRIO and Single-Board RIO use the same LabVIEW RIO hardware and software architecture and there for the tools, programming, and IO are consistant between the two HW platforms.  In this getting started material, follow the instructions for CompactRIO.

https://learn.ni.com/learn/article/getting-started-with-compactrio-hardware-and-labview

If the kit you have is an Evalution Kit, it should include a DVD that installs all the required LabVIEW Software and drivers with a single install step.

Cheers,

[A.A.A.]

Hello,

I have couple of questions

Where should I place it? Should I crack open my laptop and find some place inside to put it?

As for device, i got with it the following printed pdf https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/375062a/resource/375062a.pdf

I have installed Labview 2010 and 2011 a while ago, looking at https://learn.ni.com/learn/article/getting-started-with-compactrio-hardware-and-labview

should I uninstall LABVIEW and follow the steps?

Because I dont remember I had Labview DVD platform. (If I have to buy the DVD how much does it cost?)

If I dont have to buy the Labview platform, where can I find the files that are used for the RIO

Is there a better manual than this one?  https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/375062a/resource/375062a.pdf  

Thank you

[Zody]

Hello,

First of all, congratualtion for the prize.

I will try to answer your questions:

1. In order to program it you need LabVIEW FPGA so that you can develop on RIO.

So check if you have it installed, if not you can download it from http://www.ni.com/labview/fpga/ or you can install it from platform DVD if you have it.

2. The connection to the sbRIO is done via Ethernet port RJ45, in order to use it you will need NI RIO driver, you can download it from https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-rio--legacy-.html

3. Once you have these application installed, you have to set the IP of your sbRIO in MAX, so that it will be in the same subnet

4. Than you can create a project and discover as a target this sbRIO and you will have access to I/Os and can develop different application on FPGA.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Ion R.

[Spex]

Hi A.A.A.

The Single-Board RIO should not be installed inside of a PC.  It is a stand-alone single-board computer, but rather than running a general purpose OS like Windows, Mac, or Linux, it runs a headless Real-Time operating system (RTOS).  The Single-Board RIO is a deployable device that has been used to solve a wide range of applications, ranging from fire suppression on shipping aircraft to small autonomous robot control. 

Hopefully you can think of a fun project to control with your new Single-Board RIO.

The full user manual for the Single-Board RIO is also available online:  https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/375052c/resource/375052c.pdf

The software you need to program the Single-Board RIO is all available for download in evaluation form.  If you search ni.com for evaluation downloads of all the software suggested in the getting started content I posted earlier, you should be able to find the downloads.  I would suggest you work with your university or school to determine if you have rights to the academic versions of the software for a long term.

Cheers,