Will LIFA work with RedBoard Uno clone?

[LVnuBee]

I have Lab View 2012 Student Edition and am wondering if I'll be able to use the LIFA interface to communicate with the 'Arduino Uno R3' clone made by Sparkfun company --  their RedBoard:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11575

My first question is whether the FTDI serial interface (for USB) on the RedBoard will work with LIFA?

Second question is whether the sketch loaded with the Arduino IDE (or is it firmware loaded by something else?) (that enables Lab View to communicate I/O with the board) will affect the board being used later to run other regular autonomous sketches?

[Nathan_B.]

LVnuBee wrote:

I have Lab View 2012 Student Edition and am wondering if I'll be able to use the LIFA interface to communicate with the 'Arduino Uno R3' clone made by Sparkfun company --  their RedBoard:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11575

My first question is whether the FTDI serial interface (for USB) on the RedBoard will work with LIFA? 

The only major difference from the Arduino Uno that I see is the FTDI USB-to-serial chip.  I'm no expert on these chips but I would assume that if it was able to connect to the computer and be recognized as a serial COM port then it will likely work.  However, if the board does not have "Arduino" in it's name (as recognized by the computer) then the auto search VI will not work and you would need to hardwire the COM port.

LVnuBee wrote:

Second question is whether the sketch loaded with the Arduino IDE (or is it firmware loaded by something else?) (that enables Lab View to communicate I/O with the board) will affect the board being used later to run other regular autonomous sketches?

The LIFA firmware is just a sketch designed to communicate with the LabVIEW Arduino VIs.