Biblioteka SubVI do programowania platformy CompactRIO z wbudowaną aplikacją FPGA

W artykule przedstawiono autorski projekt biblioteki przeznaczonej do programowania platformy cRIO współpracującą z wbudowaną aplikacją FPGA. W pierwszej części artykułu omówiono podstawowe własności technologii NI RIO, architekturę platformy cRIO oraz sposób projektowania oprogramowania systemu wykorzystującego tę platformę. Opisano stworzoną bibliotekę programową dla środowiska LabVIEW oraz przedstawiono sposób jej wykorzystania w projektach.

The paper presents an original software library for the CompactRIO platform with embedded FPGA application that is used in LabVIEW projects. There are discussed the basic properties of NI RIO technology, hardware architecture of CompactRIO platform and the way of designing systems based on this controller. The use of it gives new didactic capabilities due to a combination of several areas of engineering which are programming the classical microcontroller and FPGA systems, signal processing, development of distributed systems or real-time measuring and distribution systems. The paper also describes the software library for LabVIEW environment and the way of using it in user programs, including student projects in the classes of the CompactRIO platform. It also presents a user library interface and a detailed description of it. The basic benefits of its application and the system architecture which can be realized with use of it are given. The use of the described library allows focusing on the issues directly related to the topic of taught subjects. During the implementation of the tasks set out in the paper, students acquire practical skills to design and run real-time systems. They also get experience in the use of advanced inter-process and network communications and become aware of their limits.