LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Discussions
Programming Arduino - and then untethering it from LabVIEW
The FPGA Toolkit is a means to sell NI cRIO and other RIO hardware. As such I'm pretty sure that the development cost of the Toolkit itself probably exceeds the revenue from selling the Toolkit. But...! NI earns with the sales of the RIO hardware enough to offset that easily! And that is the reason why you won't see an FPGA Toolkit anytime soon that supports non NI hardware under commercial terms. For one, such a Toolkit would be much harder to support (and therefore even more expensive to maintain) since the hardware is mostly beyond control of NI. So the economical equation would be very unfavorable.
Also my remark was mostly meant about hardware related Toolkits like the Embedded Toolkits in the past. I know for one thing that the Database Toolkit is in fact a fairly successful toolkit in terms of sales. Other software only Toolkits are probably not as a big sales but their support is also much easier as long as you do not involve hardware, especially if that hardware is out of your control.
One example of third part company that goes in this direction :
http://www.3d-svs.com/news/80-3dmicro-toolkit-arduino-expansion-beta-ou
This beta toolkit compiles LV code for standalone arduino applications.
Restricted to academic beta tester for the moment, but ideed could cool it really works
Need LV 2011 or 2012, and C code generator... as rolfk said, not the same kind of product that arduino hobbyist usually uses, and not the same price range.
I'm not sure about the status of the Arduino version. The PIC version seems to have been in Beta for quite some time. However the C Generator indeed makes this a quite expensive tool outside academica. Academic institutions get a complete site license for all NI software for a fraction of the cost, but are not allowed to use that software for commercial projects. Commercial applications even when developed in academia pays the full license cost.
