NI 7842 PXI programming in VHDL?

[vakost]

Hello.

My company bought a NI 7842 PXI board. I am reading some manuals but I cannot find any reference to VHDL. Labview is the only way to program the FPGA inside these boards? Can I do it in VHDL? Is there some way to follow in order to do that?

Thanks,

Vasileios.

[Larry_H]

Vasileios,

We do not support programming VHDL inside of LabVIEW, however we DO support importing your VHDL code into LabVIEW and using it with your FPGA module. This is covered in these two documents: https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000kHGXSA2&l=en-US and https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000x0jiCAA&l=en-US

I hope this fully answers your question and gives you options with using VHDL and your PXI 7842 together.

Regards,

[vakost]

Hello and thanks for the answer.

I will read the documentation you sent me, there are more links there. But this will need days.

I have a quick question, if you have the time.

You said that you can import VHDL code. You mean that I can have my code written and tested in Xilinx's EDK and then import the vhd files in labview? Labview is going to perform the compilation and all the things needed? If I want to import a microblaze with some peripherals? Can it handle it?

So, if I have a whole project in EDK (Embedded Development Kit) can I import it in labview? A simple yes or no will do.

Thanks.

Vasileios.

[Larry_H]

Yes. That is covered in this document: https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/06/importing-hdl-code-into-fpga-vis-using-t...

[vakost]

Thank you very much for your reply.