LabView for ADI SHARC DSPs

[kumanna]

Fellow LabView users...

I was wondering whether there is a simple way to interface LabView with Analog Devices SHARCs. In particular, I would like to use LabView as an interface in which I can interconnect custom blocks, and when complete, I can, either directly or by some intermediate stage, download the program to my processor. The processor is an Analog Devices SHARC (ADSP 21634) on an EZ-Kit Lite.

Thank you.

Kumar

[Henrik_Volkers]

Have a look at the embedded Toolkit 'add on' .

You are able to generate C-code with LabVIEW, however doing embedded programming needs some deep hardware specific tasks (and like realtime/PDA/FPGA restrictions what vis you can use). These hardware specific parts needs to be configured/coded. This has already been done for some (2?) 32bit DSPs (Blackfin and ??).

In principle you already can code a PIC in LabVIEW,  BUT someone needs to pay the some guys to do the basics. Maybe some day the manufactures (AD/Freescale/TI/...) will provide this, just like LabVIEW instruments drivers nowadays.

Hey NI, you are sitting in Austin and Freescale too, I would love to code the cheap 8/16bitters in LabVIEW      

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NI/Freescale: OK, how many units you are talking about ..  1, 10, 10k more ?    Everthing is possible, you can even bring someone to moon (and back )  just a question of $$

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Message Edited by Henrik Volkers on 05-12-2006 10:02 AM

Message Edited by Henrik Volkers on 05-12-2006 10:08 AM

[kumanna]

Thanks for the response. However, the embedded toolkit seems to be available only for the Blackfins, not the SHARCs. Also, could you please clarify how to generate C code from this add on?

Thanks.

[Bob_Y.]

There are some things that you can do to make any 32 bit processor work with LabVIEW.  If you want to use this particular processor, you can use LabVIEW with it.  It is not easy and it takes some time to get it going, but once you do, it does work out quite well.  This web page clearly states that any 32-bit processor can be used.  http://www.ni.com/labview/embedded_dev_module.htm.  I know that this is true as we have done it.

While I don't like to use this site to advertise, we have already done this several times and can provide some pointers or do it for you.  My contact information is in my signature.

Bob Young