Is there a way to get a version number or compile timestamp of a LabVIEW FPGA bitstream from within the FPGA while running? I would like to be able to have a build number embedded in the FPGA so when it's running it can report the compile version without resorting to manually populating a control, global, BRAM, etc. Not being a heavy LabVIEW scripting user, does anyone know if a compile can be kicked off within a script? This would let the script update the source with a version and then build it in one step. What would be great is a VI in the the NI libraries that replies with a U32/U64 based on the compile time in seconds (like the time/date to seconds function in Windows). Then no extra steps are needed to embed the data. Any ideas?

LabVIEW

I hate to leave it this way, but I think the Idea exchange is the best option at this point.

Dave C.

Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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