External breadboard to ELVIS

[jfadriqu]

I would like to know if I can create a circuit on a breadboard and wire it to the ELVIS system and get results. Please let me know if this is possible.

[MickeyD]

Hi,

Thanks for your input to the National Instruments Forumns!

I assume what you want to do is have a bread board that is not an ELVIS prototyping board and you want to connect to the hardware that is inside the ELVIS.  The one thing I am curious is how are you going to make this connection.  The prototyping board connects through the ELVIS connector.  If you have another breadboard that can connect through that interface then you will have no trouble, but otherwise you are going to have to make actual connections ot the ELVIS, which would not be a very practical or good idea.  So if you can connect through the ELVIS connector then you have no problems, otherwise this is not going to be very easy to implement.  Let me know the situation, and just out of curiousity, is there a reason you are not using the ELVIS Prototyping Board.

[Tom_W_[DE]]

Hi jfradiqu-

As Mike mentioned, it would be much more convenient to use the existing breadboard if possible.  If you must create your own prototyping extension you can use the pinout information here.

Hopefully this helps-

[jfadriqu]

Our professor assigned us a project to design a specific circuit. The problem is that in order to be graded we would need to assemble it (we use ELVIS) and demonstrate it works. Since we cannot have open labs, I thought it would be more efficient to build the circuit on a breadboard that i can carry around and then simply attach the FUNC_OUT to my board along with oscilloscope channels. I was hoping this would actally work.

[Tom_W_[DE]]

Hi jfradiqu-

I think I misunderstood your earlier question.  You basically have a couple of options if you need a "take home" way to work on your circuit.  You could check out the NI ELVIS Prototyping Board, NI PN 188429-01.  Alternatively, you could just use any external proto board and then build in probe points to wire back to the ELVIS inputs.

Thanks-

[bilik]

Tom,

do you mean by NI ELVIS Prototyping Board, NI PN 188429-01breadboard for ELVIS II or for the old ELVIS?

Does NI provide spare prototyping board for ELVIS II?

Or the same spare prototyping board fits to old ELVIS and to ELVIS II also?

Thank you

Petr

[Dan_K]

Hello bilik,

Prototyping boards for the NI ELVIS II can be purchased from National Instruments.  The part number for a NI ELVIS II prototyping board is 188432-01.

As for the second part of your question, NI ELVIS prototyping boards will work with a NI ELVIS II platform.  You will have to make sure that you are using the ELVISmx 4.0 driver for NI ELVIS II, as the traditional driver will not work with NI ELVIS II even when using an NI ELVIS prototyping board.

Regards,

Message Edited by Support on 09-24-2008 11:04 AM