Cannot find Xilinx Coregen

[elsayed3]

I am using LabVIEW 2010 SP1, and have the FPGA module installed. I understand that it on its own does not include coregen, so I installed the Xilinx IP for National Instruments LabVIEW 2010" at https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-12816 . I tried repairing the FPGA module installation, but I still cannot find programming -> coregen.

The board I have is NI PCIe-1473R which has a Virtex-5 LX50.

[Jeff-P]

Hi elsayed,

First of all, make sure that you have installed the Coregen tools from here. In LabVIEW 2011 that is included by default but in 2010 it needs to be installed seperately. I tried using your specific card to access that palette and I was still not able to see it. Normally on a Virtex-5 FPGA VI you can see those tools. I am looking into why this is not happening for this specific card. This forum shows ways to do coregen using the IP integration node so hopefully that gets you started.

Regards,

[elsayed3]

Thanks. I already tried that link, there arent any errors when installing it but I don't find coregen in the palette.

As to your other solution, how do I interact with ISE? I assume it was installed when I installed labview and the fpga module.. or is that a separate installation?

[Jeff-P]

You installed the coregen IP and the FPGA module, but did you install the xilinx compile tools? They should be on your dvd. For using Virtex 5 with LabVIEW 2010 you will need version 11.5. To check if you have them installed, please look in Add/Remove Programs under National Instruments Software for NI LabVIEW FPGA Xilinx 11.5 Tools.

Regards, 

[elsayed3]

Yes, I have these installed. I have both 10.1 and 11.5 installed.

[Jeff-P]

I have looked into this some more and you should be able to see the xilinx coregen palette on the 1473R target. What order did you install the drivers, you need to make sure that you installed the RIO driver after the IMAQ driver. I was originally not seeing that palette, and I had installed in the order of NI-RIO first and then IMAQ, but when I did a repair install of the NI-RIO driver, I was able to see the palette.

Please give that a try and let me know if it fixes the problem.

[elsayed3]

I had tried repairing the installation of the dogs module, and during that, the installer also repaired the Rio driver through the Rio 4 cd. I can try uninstalling then reinstalling in that specific order. I'm away from the development computer for a few days though; ill get back to you after trying that.

[elsayed3]

Hmm, I just remembered.. the installer also repaired imaq after repairing Rio. I'll try repairing again and ill stop it when it tries to repair imaq

[elsayed3]

Problem not fixed. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

[Jeff-P]

Hi elsayed3,

what versions of LabVIEW, IMAQ and the RIO driver do you have? I am surprised that the repair install did not fix it, so I just want to confirm you are using compatible drivers.