> Hello gentlemen, > We'd like to control a parallel robot with EMC2 and also with LabVIEW > sometimes. I just wonder if any MESA FPGA card can be used with LabVIEW, or > is there any other card with EMC2 and LabVIEW support? Or some way to > connect EMC2 and LabVIEW (that's unlikely). > I guess that we should have 2 separate control systems, but if there's a > way to avoid it...
I've used LabView real-time and FPGA modules on Windows. There is a LabView version for Linux, but last I checked there are no real-time or FPGA toolboxes for Linux/LabView. You could possibly write a Windows driver for a MESA card. I don't know how easy/difficult this would be. If you had this then you could use a LabView real-time program on Windows to control your machine and then have emc2 on Linux use the same card. Possibly with the same FPGA-firmware. I think LabVIEW's own FPGA-toolbox is a wrapper around the freely available Xilinx development tools. It works well with NIs own FPGA-cards, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to try to program a MESA card this way. Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
