Access global variable in fpga from rt-target

Hi All,
I have a realtime PC with NI-FPGA 7852R.
Generally I used programmatic front panel communication to access variables from FPGA to rt-system since I need the data for control and not for data logging.
The thing is, I bumped into a tutorial and suggested me to use global variables to save resources of your FPGA. My question is, is it possible to access global variable that belongs to FPGA from rt-system? As far as I tried, this does not seem possible.
Thanks,
Auralius

Could you point us towards this tutorial?
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