How to simulate cRIO

[0utlaw]

Hi Chris,

Yes- that's certainly do-able, and I've done it myself on a few occasions- simulated FPGA code is extremely handy.  The issue here (I believe) is that the original poster is attempting to use the Scan Engine rather than LabVIEW FPGA to access the modules in question.  AFAIK, scan engine variables/network-published IOVs can't be simulated if you don't have a chassis to work with/deploy to, just (sort-of) spoofed via standard network-published shared variable libraries.

[lcarner]

OK.....  to me, simulating the cRIO means creating Shared Variables that take the place of the cRIO functionality.  This way, you can write code that is interchangeable.  This is especially nice as you would not need a cRIO. Just a backend that inserts data to shared variables.  There is a way to do this, but not available unless you are handy with the DCS module.  I am just looking at this now.