Spartan-3E FPGA Board

[Persia]

Hi,

Does anyone know what the XUP is (Stand for) in Xilinx SPARTAN-3E XUP? I heard it’s a licence thing to be used with labview. Does this board need a licence to work with labview? If I buy this from Farnell, will I be able
to use it with labview without any problems? Would you recommend this board? I`m trying to use such a board as a mini computer (CPU) on-board air vehicle. Some of the functions of it would be to provide speed controllers (PWM), Sensors interface and some calculations. 


Thanks

Message Edited by Persia on 08-19-2009 12:57 PM

[wfarid]

Hi,

 For the Spartan-3E board  (which is bought from Xilinx) to work with Labview FPGA, you need to install a driver which is provided on National Instruments site https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/infolvfpgaxilsprtn/content.xhtml ... The driver was developed by NI to make researchers and educators use the more available Spartan-3E boards without a need to buy NI-RIO boards (On which there is a xilinx virtex-5 FPGA).

Till now, I guess this is the only kit supported by NI to work with Labview FPGA, so your other choice is to buy a NI-RIO boards.

Note : The above driver works with Labview FPGA 8.6. You can search the forum to find the 8.5 driver.

-- Walid F. Abdelfatah 

Message Edited by wfarid on 08-19-2009 01:43 PM

[Shazor]

Can you exactly tell me that which Spartan Board should i buy in order to use with Labview please send me the list of available comptaible FPGA boards

1) Spartan 3E-1600 Development Board link is http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,793&Prod=S3E1600

2) Spartan 3E Starter Board ( http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,792&Prod=S3EBOARD )

i will await for your reply Most urgent

Regards

MUhammad Shazor

Application Design Engineer

MSl

[wfarid]

That's a very old post. At that time, I have used Spartan-3E (Your second option).

Before purchasing it, please check the status of the Labview FPGA driver for that board.

Regards

Walid F. Abdelfatah