LabVIEW 2020 FPGA Compilation Tool

National Instruments (NI), is pleased to announce the availability of LabVIEW 2020 FPGA Compilation Tool is utility software that include tools to help you locally or remotely compile LabVIEW FPGA code to run on NI FPGA hardware targets supported by Xilinx ISE or Xilinx Vivado.

The NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, along with standard NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware, has made field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) more accessible to engineers and scientists for a decade. However, FPGA programmers industry-wide know that one difficulty with FPGA technology is overcoming the processor intensive task of synthesizing, placing, and routing an FPGA design, which results in compile times that can last minutes to hours. To further compound this problem, Moore’s law has held true over the last decade, resulting in larger and more complex designs. Without action, the compile time will continue to take an increasingly large portion of your overall FPGA design process.

National Instruments architected the LabVIEW FPGA compile system with three fundamental software components, which results in a modular, scalable compile solution. The compile system is split into three parts: the development computer, the compile server, and any number of compile workers.

LabVIEW FPGA Module Development Environment — The LabVIEW development environment that you are familiar with is where you create your application. Clicking Run on your FPGA VI completes the generating intermediate files step (see LabVIEW FPGA Compilation Process for more information). After generation, the development computer sends the intermediate files through web services communication to the compile server.

Compile Server — The compile server accepts compile jobs from one or many LabVIEW FPGA development systems and looks for available compile workers to farm out compile jobs to. If no compile workers are available, the compile server holds the compile job in a queue until a compile worker becomes available.

Compile Worker — The compile worker has the Xilinx compilation tools installed for FPGA design synthesis, mapping, placing, and routing. With these tools, a compile worker implements the design and generates a bitfile. The compile worker sends the bitfile back to the compile server, which, in turn, sends the bitfile back to the development computer.

LabVIEW procedure: Compile an FPGA VI


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Product: LabVIEW FPGA Compilation Tool
Version: 2020 *
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.ni.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC **
Supported Operating Systems: **
Size: 14.0 Gb