Zedboard Xilinx Zync 7000 interface using labview

Hello,
I am doing my thesis in Zedboard for developing an DDR3 memory test and verification. For that I need to implement an LabVIEW dedicated Graphical User Interface base on NI Measurement Studio.
Topic is : Szudy of Algorithmic test setup for DDR3 SDRAM with a Xilinx Zynq SoC.
Here i have done my algorithm in Xilinx SDK. But I need to make a GUI using labview. Which helps to execute these programs. Please let me know how I can do this.
1. Or is it possible to directly access the Zynq SoC using Labview. If yes how?
2. Or if I need to do the coding in Xilinx SDK and How I can run this code using Labview?
Please give me an detailed reply. Since I am new to labview. I m not understanding how to start with. If you have any example design please share with me.
Thanks & Regards,
Nithin Ponnarasseri
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No you can't develop directly in LabVIEW and deploy that program to the Zync board. NI has their own Zync based hardware platform (cRIO and myRIO) but the tools to target those boards are specific to the NI hardware implementation and won't work with other hardware. Developing an interface for another hardware platform is a lot of work and needs to be adapted for every single flavor of a new hardware platform. And NI does not support this for other hardware.
So your option will be to develop an application with the Zync SDK for the Zync ARM controller and supply some form of communication interface (serial port, TCP/IP, or similar) in that application over which you can send commands from LabVIEW to your embedded application.
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