NI LabVIEW 2020 FPGA Module (x86/x64)

National Instruments is pleased to announce the availability of LabVIEW 2020 FPGA Module. This module helps you develop and debug custom hardware logic that you can compile and deploy to NI FPGA hardware.

LabVIEW 2020 FPGA Module Readme – Date: March 2020

Bug Fixes
123762 Opening more than 127 concurrent FPGA interface sessions causes a crash
124013 An FPGA session reference bound to a typedef and pointing to a bitfile can cause LabVIEW to crash if the typedef is modified
184098 The Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit reports reference leaks when executing a VI that opens and closes FPGA VI references in simulation mode
223923 LabVIEW FPGA encrypts an external IP source file even if the file is already encrypted
229293 When you use the C API, some debugging tools may report a dynamic memory leak
896190 Unintended increase in BlockRAM resource usage for the FFT Express VI when the VI runs in the "Single Channel, Multiple Samples" input mode

LabVIEW FPGA is a software add-on for LabVIEW that you can use to more efficiently and effectively design FPGA-based systems through a highly integrated development environment, IP libraries, a high-fidelity simulator, and debugging features. You can create FPGA VIs that combine direct access to I/O with user-defined LabVIEW logic to define custom hardware for applications such as digital protocol communication, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and rapid control prototyping. Though the LabVIEW FPGA Module contains many built-in signal processing routines, you can also integrate existing hardware description language (HDL) code as well as third-party IP.

The FPGA Module also includes the FPGA Compile Farm Server. You can use the FPGA Compile Farm Server to offload compiles to dedicated computers.

The video tells you how to program FPGAs using LabVIEW FPGA giving you an example demonstration. And then some industry experts give some of their top tips on how to programme FPGAs with LabVIEW FPGA.

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Product: NI LabVIEW
Version: 2020 (version 20.0.0) FPGA Module *
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : http://www.ni.com

Language: English, Simplified 中文, 日本語
System Requirements: PC **
Supported Operating Systems: **
Software Prerequisites: **
Size: 2.4 Gb

* release info:

FPGA Module (64-Bit)

The FPGA Module (64-bit) provides access to more memory than the FPGA Module (32-bit) can provide. The FPGA Module (64-bit) is available in English only.
Supported Hardware

The FPGA Module (64-bit) supports the following NI hardware devices:

– PCIe-576x/577x/5785/798x
– PXIe-5163R/5164R/517xR/5745/576x/577x/5785/659xR/7902R/791x/797xR/798x
– USRP-RIO devices

You cannot use an unsupported device with the FPGA Module (64-bit) or run example VIs that require an unsupported device in the FPGA Module (64-bit).

** System Requirements:

FPGA Module System Requirements

The development computer is a PC or NI PXI/PXI Express system on which you install LabVIEW and the FPGA Module. You can also install the Xilinx compilation tools on your development computer to compile LabVIEW FPGA VIs locally. However, if the FPGA design or target requires more than 2 GB of memory, NI recommends you install the Xilinx compilation tools on a separate computer. This computer is referred to as the remote compile worker.

The development computer must meet the following system requirements:

– LabVIEW 2020 Full or Professional Development Systems
– 1.2 GHz Pentium processor or equivalent
– 3 GB of additional disk space

Memory:
– At least 3 GB of RAM for Virtex-5 and earlier FPGA targets
– At least 4 GB of RAM for Virtex-6 and later FPGA targets

One of the following operating systems:
– Windows 10 (version 1909)/8.1 Update 1
– Windows 7 SP1
– Windows Server 2016
– Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

FPGA Compile Farm Server System Requirements

If you install the FPGA Compile Farm Server on a separate computer, you can configure that computer to be a remote compile farm server. If you install the Xilinx compilation tools on a separate computer, you can configure that computer to be a remote compile worker.

You can use either a Windows or Linux computer as a compile worker. The remote compile farm server must meet the following minimum system requirements:

– 35 MB of disk space
– 1 GB RAM

One of the following operating systems:
– Windows 10 (version 1909)/8.1 Update 1
– Windows 7 SP1
– Windows Server 2016
– Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1