Labview for QNX/VxWorks/WinCE?

[tarheel_hax0r]

As far as I can tell, the only RTOS officially supported by Labview is NI's homebrew box:

"These real-time applications run on LabVIEW Real-Time Series hardware, either plug-in data acquisition devices or networked LabVIEW Real-Time Series devices."
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzoneweb.nsf/Opendoc?openagent&215A3E10364CAFE2862568FF00685E2F

About two years ago, NASA announced they were porting Labview to VxWorks, but that project seems to have faded into the sunset:

http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Sep01/NPO21124.html

I can't find any evidence that Labview has been ported to QNX [or WinCE].

Of all of these OSes, I'd be most interested in QNX [for its best of class RTOS], with WinCE in second place [because of built-in sup
port for .NET, which we will probably use as the foundation for our middleware]. Does anyone know of a product [or products, preferably with an API and libraries] that would help me upload data sampled on a QNX box to Labview running on, say, a Windoze box?

Obviously I could write something from scratch, but I'm getting kinda tired of reinventing the wheel.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> As far as I can tell, the only RTOS officially supported by Labview is
> NI's homebrew box:
>

Realtime LV is running on Pharlap. I think it was purchased and given a
different name for a short time, but I belive the name was restored. It
isn't exactly homebrewed, but not the OSes that you want either. There
is a possibility that LVRT will show up on other OSes, but probably not
in time for your project.

> About two years ago, NASA announced they were porting Labview to
> VxWorks, but that project seems to have faded into the sunset:
>

Actually, this is NI and JPL working together. NI ports LV to VXWorks,
and JPL writes their code in LV and does some/most of the certification.

> I can't find any evidence that Labview has been ported to QNX [
or
> WinCE].
>

LV doesn't currently run on these OSes, though we have looked at WinCE.
Other NI embedded products have used OSes other than Pharlap, and have
done development for WinCE, but found that they were better off to
switch to realtime Linux at the end.

If you are still interested, contact your salesperson and ask about an
evaluation of LVRT.

Greg McKaskle

[tarheel_hax0r]

"NI ports LV to VXWorks,
and JPL writes their code in LV and does some/most of the certification"

So can we ordinary peons get our hands on that VxWorks port, or is it strictly reserved for Very Important Persons only?

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> So can we ordinary peons get our hands on that VxWorks port, or is it
> strictly reserved for Very Important Persons only?

I'm not sure exactly what the plans will be, but it isn't complete at
the moment. NI has made public announcements about the project, and
after the project is complete, I'd expect it to become available for sale.

Greg McKaskle