785x FPGA development and control without LabVIEW

[Terry_ALE]

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@Dimi11 wrote:

Thank you for the insight, @santo_13, it seems that an LV full development/FPGA license will be needed in any case.

@AustinManinTown, to start with I would like the end user of the project (who has an FPGA card, but is content with just interacting with or slightly modifying the user interface) can get away without using LV.

Then, if that step is reached, they might want to edit some core functionality (alter FPGA code), continuing on without LV. But also, on the main FPGA code development, versioning would ideally become much easier.

Best,

Dimi

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Is the LV avoidance based on license costs?  Or maybe the binary aspect of the LV source files?

[Dimi11]

It is both, the binary aspect (for versioning), and training and licensing costs.

PS: Sorry for the late reply, I could not access the forum with my normal browser due to some cookie error or similar.

[santo_13]

Even if you dodge the requirement of NI's tools to compile lvbitx file for FPGA, you need the user whoever is going to modify the core functionality to have advanced knowledge of HDL, compiler and actual 785x card circuit to even modify the functionality to suit the needs.