Making Prototypes

摘要

National Instruments has launched a new suite of prototyping hardware. The five new Nl CompactRIO reconfigurable chassis use a Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The devices are compatible with Nl LabVIEW graphical programming tools. The Nl cRIO-911x reconfigurable chassis combined with the LabVIEW FPCA Module includes hundreds of pre-built graphical intellectual property blocks for signal processing, communication protocols, control, and interfacing to analogue and digital I/O. The unit is available with four or eight slots that can connect to a range of third-party and Nl C Series I/O modules for quick connectivity to a variety of sensors and actuators during the prototyping process. The new cRIO-9022 controller is programmed with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, which provides more than 600 built-in function blocks for quick implementation of floating-point signal processing and control operations, data logging and communication as well as the ability to integrate existing ANSI C/C++ code.