How do I program my control application using the LabVIEW FPGA Module?
With the LabVIEW FPGA Module, you can use high-level graphical dataflow programming to create a highly optimized gate array implementation of your analog or digital control logic. You can use normal LabVIEW programming techniques to develop your FPGA application. When you target FPGA hardware such as a CompactRIO chassis or R Series intelligent DAQ device, the LabVIEW programming palette is simplified to contain only the functions that are designed to work on FPGAs. The primary programming difference compared to traditional LabVIEW is that FPGA devices use integer math rather than floating-point math. Also, there is no notion of multithreading or priorities because each loop executes in independent dedicated hardware and does not have share resources — in effect, each loop executes in parallel at “time critical” priority. The LabVIEW FPGA palette contains extensive intellectual property (IP) libraries. The table below lists some of the key function blocks for developing FPGA-based cont
