NI 5640R 1.2 software not seen by MAX/LabVIEW FPGA

[thill]

I have recently installed the NI 5640R PCI card on a Windows XP machine, and I am unable to see the device in LabVIEW FPGA (I'm using LabVIEW 8.5).  The hardware is seen in the Measurement and Automation explorer and seems to be working fine, but I cannot see the NI-5640R software.  I have uninstalled and tried reinstalling but I have still not made any progress.

Is there something that I am missing?  I have the latest VISA and IF-RIO software installed.

Thanks.

[Speedy_Badger]

thill,

Can you be more specific when you say "I cannot see the NI-5640R software" ? The instrument driver API is located under Instrument I/O » Instrument Drivers » NI-5640R. For LV FPGA specific subVIs, I would suggest opening the ni5640R Template project installed with the NI-5640R driver. You can browse to this example by going to <Your LabVIEW Directory>\Examples\instr\ni5640R\Fpga\ni5640R Template. This example project has a VI library associated to it containing all the necessary 5640R specific subVIs for using the device as an FPGA target.

I hope this helps,

[thill]

That's somewhat my problem.  When I open this example project I get a warning sign next to where it lists my FPGA target.  I'm attaching a picture of my project explorer so you will know what I mean.

[Speedy_Badger]

thill,

If you right click on the FPGA Target (PCI-5640R) and click properties, you should see a window pop-up. Under General, there is a field labeled Resource. Make sure the resource name of the 5640R as seen in MAX is entered here (i.e. RIO0::Instr).

Generally the yellow warning sign means that the support for that module is not present. Make sure that your NI-RIO and NI-5640R drivers are updated and installed correctly. Also, try removing the device physically and re-installing it, the driver may have associated with the device incorrectly. Also, this warning can be related to incorrect file locations which could also be a result of a bad installation.

Driver locations:

NI-RIO - This is a seperate driver needed for all RIO devices.

NI-5640R

[thill]

It looks like installing version 2.4 of NI-RIO is what fixed my problem.  I was previously running 2.3.1.

Thank you for your help and I will post again if I have anymore questions.

- Travis