Run LabVIEW in embedded Linux

Hello,
My application platform is ARM 2410, the OS is embedded Linux extract from Red Hat Linux 9. I want to use LV to construct a HMI , which will use inter-process to communicate with other processes. I'd like to know which LV families product or module should be attached? Can port the LV application which develop on the Windows OS to the embedded system? Thanks.
David

DavidLee wrote:
Hello,
My application
platform is ARM 2410, the OS is embedded Linux extract from Red Hat
Linux 9. I want to use LV to construct a HMI , which will use
inter-process to communicate with other processes. I'd like to know
which LV families product or module should be attached? Can port the LV
application which develop on the Windows OS to the embedded system?
Thanks.
David
The only
solution for this would be LabVIEW embedded development system. It's a
special version of LabVIEW where you get part of the LabVIEW system in
source code and allows you to port the LabVIEW embedded kernel to your
32bit processor of choice. I'm not sure if ARM2410 is already as one of
the provided platforms, otherwise you would have to spend some time
porting various things to your platform. Apart from that you also need
the entire C toolchain of your target platform run on your LabVIEW host
system.
LabVIEW embedded development system is definitely not for the faint at
heart and substantial C programming knowledge will be mandatory in
order to make the system work for your platform. And it costs quite
some bucks >10000$.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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