LabVIEW for Raspberry Pi

[vitoi]

The recently introduced Raspberry Pi is a 32 bit ARM based microcontroller board that is very popular. It would be great if we could programme it in LabVIEW. This product could leverage off the already available LabVIEW Embedded for ARM and the LabVIEW Microcontroller SDK (or other methods of getting LabVIEW to run on it).

The Raspberry Pi is a $35 (with Ethernet) credit card sized computer that is open hardware. The ARM chip is an Atmel ARM11 running at 700 MHz resulting in 875 MIPS of performance. By way of comparison, the current LabVIEW Embedded for ARM Tier 1 (out-of-the-box experience) boards have only 60 MIPS of processing power. So, about 15 times the processing power!

Wouldn’t it be great to programme the Raspberry Pi in LabVIEW?

[James_McN]

They seem to have changed their mind now! Bankers are a fickle bunch, but engineers seem to be consistently behind NI. 

IMHO it would be cool to get RT on a £50 piece of hardware but first which one? Many of these boards don't use standard interfaces so would have to be a different LabVIEW for each one and for commercial products they are likely not up too spec (environmentals, mtbf) or too expensive for a volume product. 

Im afraid I would rather see the time invested in improving core LabVIEW for now.