Labview for Mac available ???

[Roauf]

I would be really thankful if someone tells me if there is a version of Labview for the first robotics competition for Mac

[CorbinH]

Unfortunately, there is no version of LabVIEW FRC available for Mac. One of the biggest reasons is because LabVIEW for Mac does not support real-time.

[sth]

The RT programming ability was in LabVIEW 8.1 but removed in version 8.2 and higher by the powers that be.

Just to be pedantic, Windows does not run RT, but all the RT program runs on an actually different OS by Pharlap or ???.  I can't remember the other RT OS vendor used by NI at the moment.

Only the code is generated and downloaded by the host.  This should not be platform specific, but is just a marketing decision.  Please go to the product suggestion center and suggest that RT programming be supported on Mac OS X.

[MarkBlack]

The two Real-Time operating systems employed by NI are ETS (formally known as Phar Lap) and VxWorks.  In general (but not always) ETS runs on large Real-Time targets such as converted desktop PCs and PXI controllers and VxWorks runs on small targets such as cRIO (including the cRIO-FRC) and FieldPoint.

One of the reasons Real-Time is no longer available for Mac is NI didn't sell enough seats of the software to justify (and pay) for its continues support and development.  As an avid Mac user myself I understand your frustration.  If it is any consolation many teams were successful using virtualization software such as VmWare or Parallels during the 2009 season.  The LabVIEW software shipping with FTC this year is supported both on Mac OS X and Windows. 

Cheers,

Mark

LabVIEW R&D