labview runtime pentium

[kolan]

Good day,  Respected Engineers!

Our company need to run LabView Run-Time Engine on popular AMD Geode GX2 processor for Embedded Automation Computer.

Can anybody of Developers recompile from sources LVRTE9 engine with -G6 compiler option and put on NI ftp-server?

With Best Regards!

Kolan

[kolan]

sorry, not -G6, but -G5...

so... is this operation possible?

[TCPlomp]

LabVIEW has a seperate module (LabVIEW embedded) that allows you to run LabVIEW code on any 32 bit processor, I would contact a sales rep in your area. (look under 'Contact NI').

Ton

[kolan]

Hi, TCPlomp!

We are communicating with sales in our area closely.

LabView Embedded developed for non x86-processors and microcontrollers such as ARM, Blackfin.

But Amd Geode GX2 is a full x86 compatible device. It is a 5-family of x86 processors like Pentium-I or Amd K5 desktop processor, but not Pentium-Pro(P6).

It allows to run Windows XP Professional (not CE).

<=labview-8.6 successfully run on this system. But LabView 9.0 compiled by msvc with -G6 option what makes impossible to run it on 5-family of x86 processors.

Developers made a dereliction in LabView 2009! i586-processors is still popular and used by a lot of companies! Don't stop support of 586-processors, please 

[TCPlomp]

Sorry I did not understand that you ran a Windows XP system. But I doubt that NI will make a special build for you.

Ton

[kolan]

Not for me, sir! For all who are interested in NI-products

[Dennis_Knutson]

Why are you forced to use such an old processor? Since your's is the first complaint regarding 2009, I don't see how it would be a priority for NI.

[kolan]

It is a budget processor which gets ability to run a various of application on embedded system. It is cheaper than Celeron(reduced pentium-3) more than 40% and for 100% than pentium-m (pentium-3-kernel+sse2).

If You buy 10 such embedded computers, how much do You want to pay: 6000$ or 12000$ ?

Is it enough argument?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Well, I pay far less than $600 each for a current pentium system.

You have a specific niche requirement and unfortunately, I don't really see many options except to stick with an older version of LabVIEW. There were similar discussions when NI dropped support for older versions of windows.

[kolan]

Speech is about processors which include memory, video, sound etc in one crystal...

Because only frequency in such systems plays fundamental role but not architecture, extensions.

For example, Apache uses  integer arithmetics, LabView binary code can not be sliced for SIMD extensions. And processor with reduced instructions set and max frequency is a best solution!

My derivation: Amd Geode is a best successor for this goals and it much more cheaper that other ones.