Using SpaceWire with LabVIEW

Author

Mason, Alex ; Parkes, Steve

Author_Institution

STAR-Dundee Ltd., Dundee, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

22-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

To support customers using the National Instruments LabVIEW software development environment, STAR-Dundee Ltd. have developed LabVIEW libraries and drivers allowing for the rapid integration of STAR-Dundee SpaceWire interface devices into EGSE or test and verification applications. Customers familiar with STAR-Dundee´s STAR-System API suite can use a wrapper library to control and configure any supported SpaceWire interface device under the Windows operating system. Using a native LabVIEW NI-VISA driver, users can interface to STAR-Dundee SpaceWire PCI and cPCI, boards on any platform supported by LabVIEW, including National Instruments real-time targets. In this paper, the LabVIEW solutions provided by STAR-Dundee are described, including an overview of the APIs, and example usage demonstrating solutions to common tasks.

Keywords

application program interfaces; space communication links; user interfaces; virtual instrumentation; EGSE; LabVIEW NI-VISA driver; LabVIEW libraries; National Instruments LabVIEW software development environment; National Instruments real-time targets; STAR-Dundee Ltd; STAR-Dundee SpaceWire cPCI; STAR-Dundee SpaceWire interface devices; STAR-System API suite; Windows operating system; wrapper library; Computer languages; Graphical user interfaces; Instruments; Libraries; Performance evaluation; Real-time systems; Software; LabVIEW; NI-VISA; SpaceWire; VISA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SpaceWire Conference (SpaceWire), 2014 International

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SpaceWire.2014.6936275

Filename

6936275