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.
For LvFpgaChipScope_2009 or 2010
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)
For LabVIEW 2010 and LabVIEW FPGA 2010 or later, you will need the 2010 version of the example to generate the correct CLIP files for use with newer Xilinx versions.
For LV2013 and LV2014 Chipscope Debugging
*If targeting a Kintex7 Device in LV 2014 or later, LabVIEW 2013 Xilinx ISE Compile Tools must also be installed
For LvFpgaChipScope_2009 or 2010
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.
For LV2013 and LV2014 Chipscope Debugging
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Is there any word on when the 8.6 version of this tool will be available? This looks like it could be really useful but at the moment I can't use it! The examples aren't as important in my view but an 8.6 version of the tool itself would be much appreciated.
You should still be able to use the tutorial from the linked document and the NiFpgaDebuggingCLIP_Generator from the attached document in LabVIEW 8.6. To run the generator, you will need to install the
Awesome, problem solved! Thanks a lot.
Do I need a later version for this to run with LabVIEW 2010?
The attached example files should upgrade to LabVIEW 2010 fine. LabVIEW FPGA 2010 uses Xilinx 11.5 tools for all targets except Virtex-II targets, so the ChipScope interface may look a little different, but the steps should be pretty much the same.
Is anyone at NI considering making a video about this? I'd be interested in seeing a run-time demonstration of ChipScope with LabVIEW. Not setup or configuration necessarily, but a quick glance at how this will improve my development and debugging experience with FPGA.