[Halld-online] What is NI Single-Board RIO - National Instruments

[Yi Qiang]

Hi,

Based on the introduction video of the Singleboard RIO boards, 
programing of their on-board FPGAs using LabVIEW is not much different 
from normal LabVIEW programing. And I have a feeling that they should 
also support embedded EPICS IOCs which will make the case more 
interesting. Maybe it's a good little project for our new hiring since 
its application in Hall-D is DAQ related? That's only my two cents.

Cheers,
Yi
On 3/14/2013 9:22 AM, Elliott Wolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think these are the general purpose FPGA-based digital I/O boards the
> NI rep was talking about:
>
>       http://www.ni.com/singleboard/whatis/
>
> Yi says we have a Labview/FPGA license so we wouldn't need to purchase
> software to program them.  A paper I read from LANL said they were very
> happy using Labview to program the FPGA compared to using VHDL or whatever.
>
> I think the base version is about $1k, compared to a bunch more for the
> CAEN V1495.  The latter may have more functionality, not clear if we
> need all of it.  NI has four different versions of this board.
>
> I imagine we could get a loaner, assuming Yi has time to do an evaluation.
>
> Thoughts...?
>