Compact RIO and LabVIEW run time

[zacharia01]

Dear All,

Good Morning.

We are developing a new experimental setup which will have different components, such as mass spectrometer, pressure transducers, valves and thermocouples, RTDs. We are currently having LabVIEW 8.6 Run time. We would like to control different components and acquire data using CompactRIO. I am not clear if compact RIO works with 8.5 run time. In the developers guide NI, mention about the real-time LabVIEW.

Thank you very much for help,

Zach

[nathand]

You need the Real-Time Toolkit (and possibly the FPGA toolkit, depending on your needs) to work with the cRIO.  The version of LabVIEW installed on the cRIO must match the version you're using for programming on the PC (so you can't have LabVIEW 8.5 on the cRIO and 8.6 on your computer).  The LabVIEW Real-Time is not the same as the LabVIEW Run-Time engine.  The Run-Time engine lets you run compiled applications on your computer. The Real-Time toolkit lets you program real-time targets such as the CompactRIO.