Using the Xilinx Spartan 3E XUP Hardware with LabVIEW FPGA
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This PDF presentation tutorial walks educators through the method of programming a FPGA with the G graphical programming language, thus simplifying teaching the fundamentals of logic design for undergraduate students. In order to help educators teach embedded and digital design concepts with LabVIEW FPGA and the Xilinx SPARTAN 3E XUP Board, National Instruments has developed a special driver for academia to program the Xilinx SPARTAN 3E board with LabVIEW FPGA. Educators can download free drivers to connect LabVIEW FPGA to the Xilinx Spartan 3E XUP hardware.
LabVIEW is uniquely suited for FPGA programming because of its ability to clearly represent parallelism and dataflow. The National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA Module uses LabVIEW Embedded technology to extend LabVIEW graphical development to target the Xilinx XUP hardware for academics. With the LabVIEW FPGA Module, you can create custom hardware without low-level hardware description languages or board-level design. Link to existing VHDL code using the LabVIEW HDL interface node.
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Very nice introduction for students to get
them up an starting.
- Vincent Claes, XIOS Hogeschool Limburg. claesvincent@gmail.com - Feb 5, 2008
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