National Instruments Presentation: Trends in Real-time Application Design; Reconfigurable I/O Systems (FPGA)
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Jennifer Loy (National Instruments)
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Europe/Zurich
32-1-A25 (CERN)
32-1-A25
CERN
Description
In the past, application design for real-time critical systems has required very low level software programming and in depth skill in real-time operating systems. National Instruments approach in graphical real-time programming in combination with off-the-shelf hardware reduces programming complexity dramatically. It allows rapid development of deterministic applications. Graphical programming tools like LabVIEW enables engineers and scientists to easily architect distributed control and monitoring systems.
In addition, using off-the-shelf hardware, especially reconfigurable hardware, eliminates the time spent for integration of divers I/O’s.
National Instruments offers a variety of real-time hardware targets to solve sophisticated application requirements. Each of these targets contains an embedded processor that runs a real-time OS for maximum reliability and deterministic performance. Integrate a wide array of I/O with modular hardware that scales to accommodate high-channel-count data acquisition and control, industrial signal conditioning, and safety isolation.
Reconfigurable I/O hardware with a FPGA as their heart, together with the LabVIEW FPGA module, allow rapid prototyping and deployment of high-speed control and data acquisition as well as onboard pre-processing of data.