Use LabVIEW FPGA as a DAQ and detect peak

Hi everyone, need your help now.
I want to use Labview to encode a FPGA to achieve following function：
1.Acquire data as a DAQ from a Photodetector
2.then use peak detect VI to measure the peak information
3. some simple mathematical operations
is it possible for me to achive all these only using one FPGA? and is it OK to connect DAQ's output and the input of the peak detect VI?
thanks a lot. I am a beginner, so it confused me a lot.

Hi
What is you hardware? cRIO? FlexRIO? And what your signal type? Anolog or digital?
You can refer to the help of Peak detect.vi to comfirm if the data (sigle point integer or integer array ) can be wired directly. I am afraid you can not wire the FPGA IO OUT directly to the Peak detect.vi, but you can create a array for the data and then use the peak detect.vi

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