Real-Time for Control Design

Overview

Rapid Control Prototyping
With NI LabVIEW graphical development and off-the-shelf data acquisition hardware, you can improve control design by adding real-world I/O to early designs. Easily deploy a control model to real-time hardware that interfaces with any kind of signal.

Hardware-in-the-Loop Test
The National Instruments platform is ideal for simulating real-world plants to test control models. Deploy plant models to real-time hardware and simulate complex sensors with LabVIEW FPGA and reconfigurable I/O (RIO).

Reuse Hardware and Software for System Test
With LabVIEW flexibility, you can reuse testing software and hardware from the design and verification stages when developing system and manufacturing tests, saving time and development costs.

Recommended Software

LabVIEW Real-Time Module

Extend the LabVIEW development environment with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module to download applications to a dedicated real-time target, ensuring deterministic execution of controller and plant simulation algorithms.

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LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Bundle

The LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Bundle is a suite of tools that streamlines control system development. The bundle includes one year of standard service to ensure that you have the latest version of the software and direct access to one-on-one technical support.

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LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit

Use the LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit to easily verify, prototype, and validate The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® models with LabVIEW graphical programming by seamlessly importing Simulink models into LabVIEW and connecting to a wide variety of real-time hardware. *Requires The MathWorks, Inc. Real-Time Workshop®.

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LabVIEW FPGA Module

The LabVIEW FPGA Module extends the LabVIEW development environment to download applications to a FPGA chip on NI RIO hardware.

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Recommended Hardware

NI PXI Real-Time Controllers

Deploy plant and control models to the NI PXI platform to rapidly prototype controllers with off-the-shelf hardware. Integrate signals from any type of sensor using high-performance PXI I/O modules.

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NI CompactRIO Reconfigurable Embedded System

The NI CompactRIO is a low-cost, reconfigurable control and acquisition system that combines an open embedded architecture with small size, extreme ruggedness, and hot-swappable industrial I/O modules.

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NI Reconfigurable I/O

National Instruments reconfigurable I/O hardware is powered by a user-configurable FPGA, which you configure by creating LabVIEW block diagrams with the LabVIEW FPGA Module. Your block diagram executes in the hardware, giving you direct, immediate control over all the I/O signals on the reconfigurable I/O hardware.

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