Labview ARM embedded Module

I just watched the NI webcast of the ARM module for labview where it
shows how you can download an application directly onto a target (NI)
arm board...
Anyone know if you can download it onto a non-NI arm board? Besides
a usb-jtag connection, I would imagine that the user would need to
program some sort of custom board support package in order for labview
to know what variety of ARM processor its working with.
Also, is there a way to hand tweak the generated c-code and compile
it separately. Don't know what ARM compiler NI uses (probably gnu
based), or if it's even selectable, but we use different arm compilers
on different projects, so it would be nice to compile and link labview
generated code to some of our existing code/libraries.

Behind the scenes, the LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers
uses the Keil uVision development toolchain to compile, download, and
debug applications on ARM Microcontrollers.  Therefore, any devices
that are supported by the RL-ARM Real-Time Library can be programmed
with LabVIEW. Have a look at the following article:
ARM Devices Supported by LabVIEW
If you would like to run LabVIEW on another processor, read this tutorial on using a Tier2 ARM device with the LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers.
Adnan Zafar
Certified LabVIEW Architect
Coleman Technologies

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