FPGA LabVIEW Programming, Monitoring and Remote Control

NI ELVIS is an educational design and prototyping platform from National Instruments Corp. based on NI LabVIEW graphical system design software. The platform is used for teaching concepts in areas such as instrumentation, circuits, control, communication, and embedded design in a hands-on, interactive manner. NI ELVIS contains an integrated suite of the 12 most commonly used instruments – DMM, oscilloscope, function generator, MIO, Counter etc - in a compact, rugged, laboratory-friendly form factor. A new instrument, the Digital Electronics FPGA Board has been added to the NI-ELVIS platform in order to help educators teach concepts of FPGA programming. This paper presents an example of graphical FPGA programming and monitoring using the Digital Electronics FPGA Board and LabVIEW FPGA graphical programming..