How Can I Access an FPGA VI From Python, Matlab or External Executable?

Updated Feb 13, 2020

Reported In

Software

  • LabVIEW
  • LabVIEW FPGA Module
  • MATLAB
  • Ethernet/IP Driver

Programming Language

  • Python
  • C# .NET

Issue Details

I am building an FPGA application that I will need to be able to communicate with it using other executables that I build in other programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, and others.

  • Is there a preferred and robust method to be able to do this? 

  • Can I do this using ActiveX or .NET?

Solution

The FPGA in the cRIO is only accessible using the LabVIEW FPGA Module. This discard ActiveX or .NET.

 

There we will create a LabVIEW executable to access the FPGA VI and communicate with the external program. To do that internally, we can have 2 scenarios:
  1. Create a LabVIEW executable to read directly the FPGA Program I/O
  2. Create a LabVIEW executable to read a RT Program I/O and read indirectly the FPGA I/O
Once we have the communication between our LabVIEW Executable and the FPGA VI, we can use TCP, or UDP to communicate our LabVIEW Executable with an External program

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