FPGA: Xilinx Versions supported by Linux Version

[RSteinbrück]

Together with LV2018 NI released several compilation tools:

You can install all of them side by side to be able to develop for all types of FPGAs.

To my experience you can use later releases of the same tools, like released with LV2019SP1:

as well.

[~Its_Me~]

Well I first thought I could use the FPGA  software on Windown10 but.

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/17/labview-fpga-module-compatibility-with-...

The latest supported version is Win7. That's the reason why I try to get a Linux FPGA compile VM running.

[RSteinbrück]

Yes, according to that page it might not make sense to try installing ISE10.1 on Windows 10. In the past I experimentally used "unsupported" FPGA tools in Windows 10 an it seemed to work. But I did not try all possible combinations!

Ok then you have to setup a Win7-VM, install the ISE10.1 compilation tool there and register it as a compile worker in a compile farm server setup ...

Or maybe you can use the NI LabVIEW FPGA Compile Cloud Service:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/14/compile-faster-with-the-labview-fpga-com...

mentioned earlier in this thread. I have no experience with it, but it could be easier than the setup described above.

[~Its_Me~]

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@RSteinbrück wrote:

Yes, according to that page it might not make sense to try installing ISE10.1 on Windows 10. In the past I experimentally used "unsupported" FPGA tools in Windows 10 an it seemed to work. But I did not try all possible combinations!

Ok then you have to setup a Win7-VM, install the ISE10.1 compilation tool there and register it as a compile worker in a compile farm server setup ...

Or maybe you can use the NI LabVIEW FPGA Compile Cloud Service:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/14/compile-faster-with-the-labview-fpga-com...

mentioned earlier in this thread. I have no experience with it, but it could be easier than the setup described above.

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Sounds nice the "experimentally" part! You would't happen to have a link?

As a technical person I rather setup the Linux VM Server. As a employee I would rather use the compile cloud. For the compile cloud you need an active SSP contract however. The software I use is Labview 2018 with no service contract at all.  As I am new at this company I am reluctant to ask for EU 5000 a year before I can prove Labview is a good environment. ...

[RSteinbrück]

Sorry, there is nothing to give you a link to concerning the experimental stuff. It was just some trial and error installation in some VMs, not extensive not structured. But this is also not really necessary.

Question is what you want to achieve: only compile some code for your 9074 or establish a performant solution for LabVIEW FPGA programming at the company you are working for. I did the latter one and it worked out fine, but it took much more efforts than initially expected. For the support of compilation jobs for legacy hardware a Win7-VM with the ISE10.1 compile worker was used.

So in any case you will need a real or virtual Win7 machine to run the ISE10.1 compilation tools, if you want to develop for the (legacy) 9074. I don't know any way around that, but using more recent NI hardware.

[~Its_Me~]

thank you for the help! In the end I did solve it and my Virtual machine with the FPGA compile software is working 🙂  The link to what I did to solve it can be found here at the last page:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/cRIO-9074-run-FPGA-compiler-on-windows-10-with-Labview-2018/m-p/434... 

thank you for the support !