EPICS interface with LabVIEW

[Sreedhar_T]

Hi,

I'm writing to know the communication feasibility of LabVIEW RT with EPICS (Linux).

Scenario: I want to build an application using LabVIEW windows (XP) and deploy the application on LabVIEW RT machine (Pharlap). Now, when the application is running on the RT machine, I want to monitor and control a few parameters using my EPICS user interface which is on Linux platform.

First of all, I want to know if its possible to do that and if yes, then how ? It will good if you can share a few examples.

It will be great to hear back.

Regards,

Sreedhar T

[viScience]

LV2010 RT comes with all sort of EPICS goodies.  You can create and deploy your own EPICS server on the cRIO or other RT target and then bind IOV's or NSV's to EPICS PV's that will then be published over the CA protocol and should be viewable by any EPICS clients.

[Sreedhar_T]

Sorry, but I have LabVIEW 8.6. Is it possible on 8.6 ? can it be done using shared variables ?

Also if possible, plz share an example or a systematic procedure to establish the communication between labview and epics. Its not a problem even if its LV2010 (I can always get the evaluation version to check the feasibility).

many thanks

Sreedhar