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When planning and developing specifications of any device, the first key engineering decision is whether to build or buy the primary controller board. Designing and building a custom solution allows for complete specialization and cost optimization, but any design specification changes or oversights can cause lengthy and expensive delays. On the contrary, using an off the shelf product means that COGS will increase, but the burden of the embedded hardware design as well as certifications, manufacturing, and testing shifts to the supplier. The following is a list of off-the-shelf embedded deployment platforms for LabVIEW applications.
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NI Off-The-Shelf Hardware Deployment Platforms
| The CompactRIO embedded system contains NI Reconfigurable (RIO) technology in the form of an FPGA and a powerful floating-point processor, both programmable with LabVIEW. The I/O modules contain built-in signal conditioning, isolation, and an I/O connector to provide direct connections to your sensors and actuators. | |
| NI Single-Board RIO products are low-cost embedded deployment solutions based on NI CompactRIO. They integrate a real-time processor, reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and analog and digital I/O on a single board and are powered by NI LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA technologies. The built-in analog and digital I/O can be expanded using C Series modules. | |
| The National Instruments Industrial Panel PC has a built-in touch screen and combines a 2 GHz Pentium 4 proccessor with a rugged 15 in. touch screen to create a human-machine interface. It also can become a versatile embedded system when combined with NI hardware such as industrial PCI-based DAQ boards or external USB-based DAQ modules. |
3rd Party LabVIEW Real-Time Deployment Platforms
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The PIP series is a compact, robust, low power, fanless, ready to use Industrial PC with a long term availability guarantee that fits on a DIN Rail or a Wall and is ready for connection and operation. The PIP is a LabVIEW Real-Time compatible signle board computer, so you also have access to NI I/O offerings such as NI-RIO in the PCI form factor with a PC-104 to PCI bridge. |
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The Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP COM is based on the highly-efficient Intel® Atom™ 5XX processor series and Intel® System Controller Hub single chip that combines the memory controller, graphic engine and I/O in a single, space saving chipset design. |
3rd Party LabVIEW Embedded and ADI Blackfin Targets
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The ZMobile is an "off-the-shelf" ADSP-BF533 Blackfin Processor based core module designed to minimize development risks and shorten time to market by featuring a plug&play approach. Integrated peripherals and drivers include Analog and Digital I/O as well as Flash Memory support.
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The Boston Engineering FlexStack is a tiny, rugged platform that takes advantage of the flexibility of LabVIEW Embedded with the power of the Analog Devices Blackfin DSP. These stackable modules allow the user to choose the capabilities and to simply program them with LabVIEW Embedded.
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The Blackfin Handy Board is a hand-held robot controller board. The BF-HB is an all-in-one solution for classroom and mobile robotics projects. It's based on the Analog Devices Blackfin® ADSP-BF537 processor running at 600 MHz. It is equipped with 64 MB SDRAM and 256 MB of NAND flash, plus a Xilinx Spartan 3e FPGA to support its sensor/motor I/O subsystem. |
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Bluetechnix offers a set of tiny Core Modules allow developers and system integrators to quickly design their products. Intended for small to medium volume products, Bluetechnix Tinyboards save development costs and risks significantly and enable incredible performance on a tiny space.
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3rd Party LabVIEW Embedded Targets (non-Blackfin)
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The phyCORE-ARM7/LPC229x supports high-performance, low power LCP2292 and LPC2294 ARM7TDMI-S devices from NXP Semiconductors (founded by Philips) that offers 256 KB Flash memory, an 8-channel 10-bit ADC, PWM channels and up to 9 external interrupt pins. |
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The National Instruments LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers delivers graphical programming to the world’s most popular embedded 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor. It provides a comprehensive development environment for ARM7, ARM9, and Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. |
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The EP440C single board computer is a flexible and capable development system for the AMCC PowerPC 440EP and 440GR processors. The EP440C board enables development of vertical solutions by combining the power of the AMCC PowerPC 440EP and 440GR processors with numerous expansion and debug options. It includes a PCI slot, serial, USB, and Ethernet interfaces .
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