Low-level communication through either serial or Ethernet port on the FPGA

[Clay Upton]

Good evening,

I would like to create a FPGA program that communicates with a non-labview program. To do so, I would like to send and receive data through either the serial or ethernet ports on the FPGA. I am having trouble finding how to access these resources on a low level with the limited VI's present in the FPGA functions list. I am using a cRIO 9022 device and Labview 2010.

Any advice or resources would be appreciated.

Thanks you,

Clay Upton

[Drew_T]

Clay,

Since these built-in ports are located on the cRIO controller, not the FPGA backplane, you can access them through the cRIO RT Target.  To do this, you will need to install NI-VISA and NI-Serial on the cRIO.  They should be able to be accessed just like any other port on a normal computer (using VISA, TCP/IP, UDL, etc.)

Good luck!