06-27-2022 04:37 PM
Good Day,
I have a PXI-7841R FPGA device, LabVIEW 2019 installed, and NI says at Compatibility between Xilinx Compilation Tools and NI FPGA Hardware - NI that requires the Xilinx Compilation Tool for ISE 14.7. It also says that Module Xilinx Compilation Tool for ISE 14.7 is not supported on Windows_10.
Our IT will not allow me to use Windows_7. Does someone have a work-around? If I upgrade LabVIEW would there be a solution?
Thank you in advance for your insight.
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06-27-2022 04:43 PM - edited 06-27-2022 04:45 PM
If you have an active SSP, you can use the NI online compile server.
06-27-2022 05:51 PM
That is a great idea. Thank you for bringing it up. Our IT does not allow us to use that service at this time.
06-27-2022 07:09 PM
If your IT does not allow you to use NI online compile service, you may be cornered to setting up your own FPGA compile farm on Linux on a local server.
06-28-2022 11:01 AM
Santhosh, That is another great idea. I will consider it once I have exhausted all more straight forward options though, as I would have to get IT involved.
This version of ISE supports all Xilinx devices. For more information, visit the ISE Design Suite.
So this could work, but when I run the installer it says it is going to install a virtual machine. Will the NI FPGA compile worker know how to access it?
06-29-2022 03:40 AM
We are using Virtual Machines with Windows 7 for this purpose. Don't know if that's allowed by your IT.
You could then either develop in the VM, or just use this as compile server.
06-30-2022 05:14 PM
Thank you Dan,
This is what we should do indeed, setup a compile server.
But after thinking a lot about this, and to keep things simple, I will replace the 7841R with a 7846R: The 7846R compiles in Windows10 with LabVIEW 2019 and the "LabVIEW 2019 FPGA Module Xilinx Compilation Tool for Vivado": So no need to authorize and setup a compile server for now.
This tool made me realize that different FPGA cards may require different compile tools:
Compatibility between Xilinx Compilation Tools and NI FPGA Hardware - NI