interfacing with fpga

[works]

hello

i have a very basic understanding of labview anyway i want to interface an altera FPGA with labview is it possible to do that?

i have a vi which i ultimately want to run on my altera FPGA .

any information you can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

[MaxJoseph]

I believe all NI FGPAs run on Xilinx chips. Altera is a competitor of Xilinx. LV comes with tools for compilation of vi's into programs that run on Xilinx chips, I have not seen any tools for Altera chips. So, I believe the answer is no; I suspect that LV is only compilable onto a subset of Xilinx chips.

I believe you can export the LV vi to VHDL, which can then might be compilable onto an Altera chip given a suitable compiler. I dont know anything about the details of this though!

[Terry_ALE]

1. LabVIEW FPGA development targets only NI boards with Xilinx FPGAs

2. I do not think LabVIEW FPGA can export unencrypted VHDL (it makes VHDL but you cannot see it)

3. A non-NI board can be accessed from LabVIEW if its registers and configuration is known; but this is a non-trivial task.