National Instruments (NI) recently launched new products including a suite of I/O modules for expanding measurement communication capabilities of its single-board reconfigurable I/O (RIO) embedded control and data acquisition devices. They combine a real-time processor, reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and onboard analog and digital I/O on a single printed circuit board (PCB). Single-board RIO devices are used for applications that require flexibility, high performance, and reliability. You can plug the 15 new C Series modules into single board RIO devices for high-voltage power monitoring, high resolution analog input, strain, and communications to embedded applications.
The embedded I/O modules expand measurement communication functions of single-board RIO embedded control data acquisition devices.
In addition, a new programming interface is available for C and C++ developers. It allows you to take advantage of the LabVIEW FPGA module and FPGA-based hardware for embedded control and acquisition applications. Using the interface, you can use LabVIEW graphical tools to program the field-programmable gate array within NI hardware and choose either LabVIEW or C/C++ tools to program the processor within the system.
A programming interface helps those with C formatting expertise to implement FPGAs within designs without having to learn hardware design.
The new product helps you implement FPGAs without having to learn hardware design. You can also reuse existing embedded C code. The interface uses a reconfigurable I/O RIO driver for communication between the processor and FPGA in FPGA-based hardware such as Compact RIO and a single-board RIO. With the new C interface, you can program the real-time processor on FPGA-based hardware using C tools such as LabWindows/CVI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Wind River Workbench, and the interface to the LabViEW FPGA code. You can also program the processor using the real-time module which induces tools for low-level system debugging and precision execution timing for increased flexibility and function of deterministic real-time applications.
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