Using LABVIEW for FPGA

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LabVIEW support community we need your help.

We found this question on an embedded design discussion forum. A verilog programmer is considering LabVIEW FPGA to update his project.  We feel his question might warrant ample discussion from actual LV FPGA users so we have pointed him here to our forums and created this thread. Are there any LabVIEW programmers who might offer some advice? See his question below.

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[Akiel]

Of the top of my head, yes labview FPGA addon is compatible with xilinx, and in the latest version you get to choice which ersion of xilinx tools (ver 12.4 and 10.1). Im sure other members of this comunity will be able to give much more info.

hope it helps 

[ErnieH]

NI tools are only good on NI hardware. Extremely limits your choices of hardware. If you are doing it in verilog, I am not sure what value LabVIEW will give you. You can always use Xilinx's tools. They are free except for the larger parts.

[Dragis · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the LabVIEW FPGA Community. We'll need more information about your specific project requirements to suggest the current hardware, but in general NI has a large variety of reconfigurable hardware to choose from. LabVIEW FPGA can also target several academic boards from the Xilinx University Program.

LabVIEW FPGA doesn't support Verilog directly as a top-level file for importing. However, if you wrap the verilog in a thin VHDL fascade, it will work since Xilinx knows how to synthesize/simulate mixed models.