spartan 3e & Labview 2011

[BradM]

I was unable to recreate your issue, I installed on a Windows 7 64-bit OS, with all NI software located at E:\National Instruments, I was able to plug in the board and use a simple bitfile. Can you check to make sure that, when the board is plugged into the host computer and powered on, that there's an entry "Programming cables"? If it is absent, power off the board and run the batchfile $PATH_TO_LABVIEW\vi.lib\LabVIEW Targets\NiCobs\bin\install_xusb.bat

[Lungu.Cristian]

I didn't got to the part where i use my board.  Btw , what bit file ??? I'm not using impact to load any program on the board , labview does that for me after it compiles the program. I could'nt install the spartan 3e labview driver because it could't detect FPGA module installed.

  I will try your sugestion and let you know if it worked.Thanks. 

           The link you provided does not work. Please fix it. 

[BradM]

Sorry, "bitfile" as in what is generated from LabVIEW FPGA.

If it won't install, make sure that you actually have LabVIEW FPGA 2011 sp1 installed, can you locate the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\National Instruments\LabVIEW\AddOns\FPGA\Version and let me know what value it has?

[Lungu.Cristian]

It says 11.0.0

[BradM]

You do not have LabVIEW FPGA 2011sp1 installed, mine shows 11.0.1

[Lungu.Cristian]

Please be kind to provide the download link for labview + fpga module. I took mine yesterday from NI site and it's not working.

[BradM]

LV: http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2871/lang/en

FPGA: http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2880/lang/en

[Lungu.Cristian]

Thank you very much and sorry for wasting you so much time. Have a nice day!

[Andrei_Hapenciuc]

Hi, After lots of downloads I was able to start the installer of the Spartan 3 driver After the installer ended its job and I have restarted my PC I have figure out that while creating an FPGA project I can select through some options were Spartan 3 is missing. Even if I create a new project and try to add targets Spartan 3 is also missing from target list. This was the way I was able to make it work in LV2009 two years ago, did anything changed meanwhile? I use Win7 32 bit and I have installed every thing BradM indicated, thank you. Andrei

[BradM]

Can you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to do, what options are missing and from where, and the steps you are following to add a Spartan 3E target to a new project?