AIT ARINC 429 Add-On Feedback

[hantaoauto]

Hi,

I am currently using AIT_429_v2.0.0_2014_Built version of custom device in veristand 2014 with AIT Device Driver 4.8.2. And I tried a simple loopback with AIT loopback.xml file from Example Database, which implements data output from channel 3 and data input from channel 4. However, the numeric indicator of input channel data did not update according to the output data's variation.

I have already check the hardware connection and there's no problem. Really appreciated if you could offer me any guidance.

Best regards,

Tao Han

[Kilometers]

I've noticed some problems with the AIT Loopback.xml with newer versions of the AIT driver. Could you try a test with the RxTxWithParams.xml and see if you still have these issues?

[RupiDo]

Hi,

which AIT LabVIEW Driver are you using? Please check post #171 and following if AIT 5.8.1 is used.

[hantaoauto]

Hi Kilometers,

Thank you so much! It is indeed the problem of AIT Loopback.xml. I just tried RxTxWithParams.xml, and it seems parameter changes of the output channel can be reflected in the input channel. I still have to figure out the meaning of every parameter settings. Anyway, thanks!

[hantaoauto]

Hi RupiDo

I am actually using AIT 4.8.2. When I tried AIT 5.8.1, similar errors like #174 occurred. After the driver is changed into AIT 4.8.2 with LabVIEW 2014, it just works fine. Thanks!

[Freeman42]

Hi all,

We are currently having an issue when tryied to deploy on the target a nivssdf where the arinc configuration has a Rx inside.

During the init of the custom device AIT, we have the following error:

"

******AIT 429 CUSTOM DEVICE ERROR******

Source: Owl429.lvlib:Owl429_DefaultErrorHandler.vi:855<ERR>

An API failure occurred. uapiMonInit returned -1. General error.

<b>Complete call chain:</b>

Owl429.lvlib:Owl429_DefaultErrorHandler.vi:855

Owl429.lvlib:Owl429_IBoard_resetWithConfig.vi:6

AIT 429.lvlib:AIT 429 Configure All (BIN).vi:5

     AIT 429.lvlib:AIT 429 Configure Board (BIN).vi:4

     AIT 429 Custom Device.lvlib:429 RT Driver Init.vi:3

AIT 429 Custom Device.lvlib:AIT 429 RT Driver VI.vi:2

Custom Devices Storage.lvlib:Initialize Device (HW Interface).vi

NI VeriStand Engine.lvlib:Initialize Inline Custom Devices.vi

NI VeriStand Engine.lvlib:VeriStand Engine State Machine.vi

NI VeriStand Engine.lvlib:VeriStand Engine.vi

NI VeriStand Engine.lvlib:VeriStand Engine Wrapper (RT).vi

Code:    -2

******AIT 429 CUSTOM DEVICE ERROR******

"

For our configuration we have:

On the target  VS RT 2011.1

We use the custom device v2.0.0.2011

For AIT Visa driver we have 4.8.2 (on the target owl429.dll is v4.7.0.452). We cannot use v5.8.1 with VS2011 sp1 because of the issue that do not allow to create Rx channels.

We think the issue could comes from the owl429.dll. We tryied to find an idea on the forum and found post #51 but it seems there was no answer.

Do you have any idea to help us ?

Thanks

[hantaoauto]

Hi Miles and Stephen,

Thanks for your help last time on AIT 429. However, new problem occurred which i have to explain to customer why the corresponding input words and output words with same label  are not matched. In the picture below, the correspondent input word with Label1 is 133.182 which is not same as the output word 133.174.

And what is the meaning of the scaleFactor and scaleOffset setting in RxTxWithParams.xml?

Thanks!

[Freeman42]

Hi all!

First of all happy new year!

We have finally solved our issue thanks to people from AIT and hrobitaille.

It was because of an old firmware version of our board.

I am going to quickly explain the different steps we followed if it could help somebody.

1. We used the VI "AIT 429.lvlib/Public/Board/Data/AIT 429 Get Details Board.vi" in the init part of the RT Driver. We printed the result on the console and we saw that the board firmware was 0x35D whereas it should be 0x441 to match with SDK v5.8.1
2. We update the PXI-429 board firmware.
   The procedure is given in "C:\Programe Files\AIT\ARINC-429 SDK v5.8\Instrumentation\help\GettingStarted.chm".
   You only need to add the VI "AIT Update Hardware.vi" in a real real-time project and run it.
   This VI is localized in "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 20XX\project\AIT 429 Utilites".
   Files related to the firmware are already on the target (probably put when ARINC-429 driver is deployed with NI MAX)
3. During investigation we performed a self-test of the board ("Owl429.lvlib\IBoard\Owl429_IBoard_selfTest.vi") and used VI "Owl429.lvlib\ISelfTestResults\Owl429_ISelfTestResults_isPassing.vi" to get the True\False result.
   This VI ("Owl429_ISelfTestResults_isPassing.vi") have an issue in the dll call: the true/false result should be getting passed by reference (the pointer to the result to return), but it is being passed by value instead. This cause an error and the result of the SelfTest is false. It seems that it will be fixed by AIT.

Now our board is working well.

Regards

[marvinliebherr]

Hello,

I would like to communicate with the AIT ARINC 429.

The hardware I use: Desktop with Windows 7 and a PXIe-1078 where the AIT Arinc 429 is plugged.

I've loaded an example of database in the custom device/arinc 429. But when I launch it in VeriStand 2015 SP1, I got the Error 74.

Do you know how can I fix it?

Thanks

[hrobitaille]

Hi,

Does the new version of Custom Device support SEA or SET modules ?

In the readme, we can see "The Custom Device was developed in cooperation with SET GmbH" and in some comments we can see "SEA FPGA module".

As SET and SEA are different companies and both have ARINC modules, I would know which modules are supported.

Regards

Hubert