why does labview take so long to load

[JFTICH]

I have LabVIEW installed: along with LV RT and LV FPGA. When I want to target an FPGA board: 7813 or 7811 for example, the LV load time is minutes versus seconds.  I understand that VISA is used to interface to the RIO boards.  It seems that there is something waiting to timeout and LV takes a really long time to load.  Any thoughts?

[DimensionFinder]

There are 2 reasons why your FPGA code takes long to download/compile:

1. The code is being compiled to 1s and 0s so your FPGA can understand and execute it
2. The code is being optimized so it takes minimal space on your FPGA

This is pretty much expected behavior when downloading your code to any FPGA device.

Jaideep

[JFTICH]

The question was not about the compile time, it was about the time it takes for LabVIEW to load or start. You know? When you double click on the labview.exe???

[altenbach]

Is LabVIEW installed on a local disk or on a network resource?

[JFTICH]

Installed on a local disk.  Here is some more information... When my rio card, ie my FPGA 7813R, is installed the load time for labview to start is minutes. When the card is disabled by the OS or not installed, my machine can load lv7 in 15seconds or so.

[jdigiova]

There is a top ten solution on this topic. See the link below. http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/62fc1aeb74fa068286256d2d005230f9?OpenDocument Regards, Joseph D. National Instruments