Introduction

Use Xilinx® ChipScope™ to probe internal signals in your LabVIEW FPGA designs.  ChipScope™ provides tools for generating logic analyzer cores to be used on your FPGA, which allows probing and triggering signals in the FPGA.  Using the LabVIEW FPGA CLIP Node, you can instantiate these cores in your designs to perform on-chip debugging of LabVIEW FPGA designs.  For additional information on Xilinx® ChipScope™, see http://www.xilinx.com/tools/cspro.htm.

Requirements

LabVIEW 8.6 or later, LabVIEW FPGA 8.6 or later with the Compile Server installed, Xilinx® ChipScope™ 9.2 SP4 (LabVIEW FPGA 8.6) or Xilinx® ChipScope™ 10.1 SP3 (LabVIEW FPGA 2009)

Installation

1. Download and unzip the attached LvFpgaChipScope_<version>.zip.
2. Run setup.exe.  This installer will place the example files and NiFpgaDebuggingCLIP_Generator executable in your personal folder, such as My Documents.
3. Follow the steps attached to the DeveloperZone article here to incorporate ChipScope™ cores in your LabVIEW FPGA designs.

The included example files are for LabVIEW 2009.  To use the NiFpgaDebuggingCLIP_Generator with LabVIEW 8.6, you will need to install the LabVIEW 2009 Run-Time Engine.