Could you recommend a desktop PC?

[Haifei]

In this PC, I can use NI PCIe-1429 IMAQ board, and alos can use it as a LabVIEW Real-Time for ETS Target.

Here are two sides requirements:

1. Choosing the Right PC for the NI PCIe-1429:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/1FD6E5B5A08C1E0786256F9B0079D449

2. Requirements for a Desktop PC as a LabVIEW Real-Time Target:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/cb3434da94466dd286256e9e006bb775?OpenDocument

It is difficult to choose a PC which satisfy above requirements at the same time. Could you recommend one to me? Thanks a lot!

Sincerely,
Haifei

[Efosa O.]

Hello Haifei, I hope all is well.

I see you have already taken a look at the requirements documents. National Instruments does not typically suggest specific PCs for customers to purchase for obvious reasons. However, what you can do is go to an electronics store with the requirements and I am sure you will get someone who will be able to pick something good out for you.

Another option might be looking into getting a PXI system. So as opposed to using a desktop ETS target, you can get one of our PXI chassis and controllers. This will typically serve as your Real-Time Target. It will be easier to setup and configure and at least you know you will not run into incompatibility issues.

You can find information regarding the different chassis and controllers we offer here (chassis) and here (controller) respectively.

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Efosa O.

[carlson]

Look into the Dell Precision 380.  Remember, no dual or HP processors.  The most difficult problem for me for selecting a RT PC was to get the x4 slot for the PCI-e 1429 capture card.  But now it seems like PCIe is not supported in RT - is this true?  I need to capture images from the 1429 in RT!

Carlson

[Haifei]

Thank you, Efosa and Carlson.

Carlson, you are right, PCIe is not supported in RT. I knew that recently. We have the same problem. Now I have to plug the PCIe-1429 into host PC and make it out of real-time. I don't like to do so, but I have no choice. Do you have any good idea?  

Efosa, Does NI have any plan to support PCIe in RT?

Haifei

[carlson]

My whole plan was to use the PCIe capture card in RT OS.  What is disappointing to me it that no one at NI caught this and told me otherwise before I ordered the equipment.  I communicated with several NI people on my problem because it was unique (1000 fps and RT centroiding of a spot in a few ms).  I was never warned that RT did not support PCIe.  So I am also very interested in whether NI pans to support PCIe in RT.

Carlson

[Efosa O.]

Haifei and carlson,

Good day! My sincere apologies for just now finding out that PCIe is not supported in RT. Please go to ni.com and fill out a product suggestion. We truly look into these and our R&D team takes these suggestions very seriously.

At this point, I am not sure when PCIe boards will be supported on RT so I cannot give you a definitive answer.

My apologies for being the harbinger of this news. Let me know if you have further questions.

Efosa O.

[Haifei]

Hi, carlson

Did you figure out how to use PICe in Real-Time system? Since we have the same problem, may be we can discuss together. My email is: haifei@berkeley.edu

Thanks,
Haifei

[L._Andrzejewski]

Hi there,

I am also working on a similar application, I would like to do some feature tracking using a 1024x1024 150fps camera in real time, with a PC and PCIe-1429 under ETS. Funny because it s NI that recomanded this config too me and now I find out that it wouldn t work.

Did you find any solution to your problem. If you do, I would be interested.

thanks

Lukasz

[Haifei]

Hi,

Sorry, There is no way to use PCIe-1429 in ETS, I am gonna buy PCI-1428 instead. May be you can use two desktop,  plug PCIe-1429 in one of them and run Windows,  the other run ETS, and do some communication work.

Haifei

[cgraf]

Hi all,

Beginning with NI-IMAQ 3.6, which released on the NI Vision Acquisition 8.2 distribution, we now have support for the NI PCIe-1429 and NI PCIe-1430 running on PC-based LabVIEW RT systems.  We regret any confusion this may have caused earlier, and I hope that the timing allows this to still be a viable option for your project.  The full installer can be found here:

https://download.ni.com/support/imaq/pc/vision_acquisition/VisionAcq820/VisionAcq820.zip

Please let us know if you have any additional questions or problems regarding this issue.

Best regards,

Chris