Labview ARM embedded systems tutorial

good day,
I started working on a project using the LM3S8962 development board to work initially lencuaje C, is very economical and in many cases better than the Arduino
but I see that you can also work with Labview, if someone worked on it and can give me some information would greatly appreciate it
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Hi Tom,
If you have questions about the hardware/pins itself, I would consult the user guide for this piece of hardware. For example, here: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/eecs149/sp09/docs/EK-LM3S8962_EvalBoard_UM.pdf
The software/hardware connection is mostly pretty straight forward. For example, if you create an Elemental I/O point and select PWM0, then whatever you send to that node will go to the pin labeled on your board as PWM0. Also, there are a number of properties in software that you can configure in software for the PWM output: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372459E-01/lvarmhelp/arm_eio_prop_pwm/
If you have specific questions or specific things that aren't working, I may be able to assist you, but I think that's all the general support material that we have.

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