Using SpaceWire with LabVIEW

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.