john The National Instruments “LabVIEW 2018 FPGA Module Xilinx Compilation Tool for Vivado 2017.2 – Linux” is only officially supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. CentOS is basically a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, also known as RHEL. I like to joke and call it R-HELL. The reason is valid, Red Hat Enterprise … Read more
So it appears to me that Monero/CryptoNote mining has gained a lot of popularity lately, and this has led many people to this website. Let me note that LabVIEW FPGA is a proprietary tool that comes with a 30-day Evaluation. After that, you have to spin up a new virtual machine and reinstall LabVIEW to … Read more
So after some serious debugging, editing, and regenerating of the bitstream, I was able to send out an ARP response from the FPGA to my linux server, and for my linux server to send a UDP packet in to the MicroBlaze. This was all verified via UART debug statements. Now while I work on cleaning … Read more
Working from scratch, I created a LabVIEW FPGA project that imports a MicroBlaze design that communicates with LabVIEW via a UART, and has the ability to change the elf file in a much shorter time frame than before. I did this by adding the MicroBlaze to the project after it had been exported to Vivado, … Read more
Before I go any further and start wiring up my code to use the lwIP on the embedded MicroBlaze, I will need some sort of better method of debugging. All code that I have implemented that uses a MicroBlaze processor via the Xilinx tools makes use of the UART to send and receive standard input … Read more
If you purchase the National Instruments PXIe-6592R Board, retailing at $12,197.00 USD, I guarantee that you can run an FPGA accelerated 10 Gigabit network card in as much time as it takes for you to synthesize your code! Call Now, the number is 1-900-XXX-YYYY. Batteries not included, strings attached. But seriously, I have just cleaned … Read more
I normally avoid shop words or “corporate speak” because I feel it dehumanizes us, but sometimes these phrases are necessary. So here is the “30,000 foot” view. And please pardon the appearance of my flow charts and diagrams, I am not a graphic designer… All images open in a new tab, so just click on … Read more
I have wired up the components of my 10 Gigabit FPGA Accelerated Network card with great care, and I decided to have my “tester” application skip the lwIP stack and to pass the received packet directly to the host for testing/verification purposes. Everything was checking out fine, the LabVIEW code looked flawless, the interface to … Read more
The 10 Gigabit MAC/transceiver gives me 64 bit data words. I currently think I am giving and getting 64 bit data words, but I am really only using 32 bits. I came to this conclusion after I tried reading a 64 bit word and saw the data was simply two repeated 32 bit words. Additionally … Read more
I wired up the 10 gigabit ethernet MAC to my MicroBlaze instance to my host computer and compiled/synthesized everything. I then turn on my “quiet” PXIe-1062Q and fire up my tester application and it did not work… I open up an isolated tester – “Fpga-Mac-Top.vi”, and it worked. I open up the isolated MicroBlaze tester … Read more