can FPGA code be deployed from an installer?

[James_R]

I need to be able to deploy software to a remote location by supplying just an installer.  Is that possible?

Thanks

[stanthetiger]

Hi James,

Installer can only be use to distribute an application on multiple PCs. To deploy an application that contains a target on a remote location, I would suggest you to take a look at NI-RIO System Replication Tools.

Regards,
Stanley Hu
National Instruments
Applications Engineering
http://www.ni.com/support

[Bassett_Hound]

James,

Are you asking if you can deploy your host application along with the NI RIO driver?  You can do this by building an installer for your user. 

If your asking is there a way to deploy the Real-Time images of cRIO systems, then Stans suggestion to use the replication tools is correct ( you'll also need the Real-Time System replication tools ).

Bassett Hound

[Christian_L]

James,

Can you be more descriptive about your system setup and configuration. What is the hardware that you wish to update remotely? Since you are using an FPGA target, do you also have a LV Windows or LV RT remote target (e.g. PXI, CompactRIO, Compact FieldPoint)? How are you connected to this remote target? What is the network configuration to the remote target, if any?

Who are you supplying this installer to? i.e. are you giving the installer to another person to run on the remote target, i.e. they will run the installer locally.

[James_R]

I have a cRIO9012 with 4 slot chassis.

This is connected to a host computer via ethernet but is not connected to the internet.

I want to be able to give someone an  installer to put in this machine that would install the host vi, RT vi and fpga bitfile.

The system i am updating is in another country so i would like a remote method of installing new FPGA code

the way i currently deploy software is to make an installer for the host vi and replace the RT startup vi via ftp

[James_R]

I tried the system replication tools and it works great ! Thanks

I had to reboot the cRIO for the changes to take affect though even for an erase.  is this expected?

Thanks all for your help