fpga

[Juddster]

I have two PXI racks with diff FPGA's  7831r and 7851r. I have a program for 7831r that works well and want to port it to the 7851r. There is no 7851 r in the development system.

I am having trouble setting up to simulate the 7851r to compile and copy the file to the other system.

What steps should I take to complete this task?

[srm@viewpointusa.com]

what rev of LabVIEW?  is it too old to support the 7851s?  otherwise i don't understand your question.

[Juddster]

I have two systems. One copy of FPGA dev. on the system with 7831r hardware. No FPGA dev. on the system with the 7851r.

I need to compile on one system for a 7851r device on the other system. Iam having trouble getting the compile going. If I select "Execute VI" on "FPGA target" my vi is unbroken but the compile fails as there is no device in the system. If I select "Execute vi" on "Developement System w/ Simulated IO" or "Execute vi" on "Developement System w/ Real IO" my vi is then broken.

I imagine it is just a setup error but have not been able to find it.

I am running 2010 SP1 on both systems.

[srm@viewpointusa.com]

you can compile on your system without the devices present but not test them.  you will have to take the built code to the other machine or move the cards to your dev system to test.

[nathand]

There is no need for the device to be present in the system in order to compile; I do this all the time.  What specific error are you getting?  How are you starting the compilation?  You will want to do it by right-clicking on the VI in the project, under the FPGA target (which should be configured as the appropriate device).  This will compile but not run the VI.