NI Academic RIO Device

Academic RIO Device fast facts

• Low-cost versions of the NI RIO platform
• Features Xilinx Zynq-7010 System on Chip (SoC):
  • Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor running NI Linux Real-Time OS
  • Integrated FPGA fabric
• Hardware common to all Academic RIO devices:
  • 8 analog inputs, 4 analog outputs
  • 32 digital I/O lines
  • Stereo audio I/O
  • 5-volt, 3.3-volt, and +/- 15-volt power supplies
  • 4 onboard LEDs
  • 1 onboard push button
  • 1 USB 2.0 port (for connection to PC host)
  • 1 USB 2.0 port (for connection to devices)
  • Flash memory file system
  • RT processor:
    • 667MHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
    • NI Linux Real-Time OS (RTOS)
    • 512 MB of onboard nonvolatile memory
    • 256 MB of DDR3 memory (533 MHz, 16-bit bus width)
    • Gigabit Ethernet, USB, RS232/RS485, Mini DisplayPort, SD, WiFi
    • Implements high-level command and control, user interface, network connections, and low to moderate speed process control loops
    • Programmable in LabVIEW or C
  • FPGA:
    • Xilinx Z-7010
    • Implements precision I/O timing, massively-parallel computation, high-speed signal processing, and high-speed process control loops

Academic RIO devices

• NI myRIO Student Embedded Devices:
  • NI myRIO-1900 (enclosed system)
    • Onboard accelerometer
    • WiFi network adapter
  • NI myRIO-1950 (single board system)
    • Onboard accelerometer
• NI ELVIS RIO Control Module:
  • Integrates into the NI ELVIS instrumentation workbench
• NI ELVIS III Project Based Solution
  • WiFi network adapter
  • Fully integrated Control I/O and Instrumentation
• Software development system requirements: LabVIEW, LabVIEW RT, LabVIEW FPGA, and NI RIO

Academic RIO architecture overview

Learn more details about the architecture and hardware organization of the Academic RIO Device.

NI Academic RIO Device Toolkit

The NI Academic RIO Device Toolkit provides a straightforward way to develop a wide range of useful applications without doing any FPGA programming yourself. The Toolkit offers a default Device FPGA personality and associated Express VIs and low-level VIs to interact with the FPGA. The Academic RIO Device Toolkit includes these features:

• Analog I/O
• Digital I/O
• Onboard devices (LEDs, push button, accelerometer (NI myRIO Student Embedded Devices only))
• PWM outputs
• Quadrature-encoded signal decoding
• Serial buses:
  • SPI
  • I2C
  • UART
• Interrupt sources:
  • External digital transition
  • External analog threshold crossing
  • Internal timer

Learn more about the NI Academic RIO Device Toolkit.

For more information

1. NI myRIO-1900 Student Embedded Device (enclosed) (http://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.myrio-1900.html/)
   Manuals, drivers, support library, and developer community.
   
2. NI myRIO-1950 Student Embedded Device (single board) (http://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.myrio-1950.html/)
   Manuals, drivers, support library, and developer community.
   
3. NI myRIO Student Embedded Device (http://www.ni.com/myrio/)
   Learn more about the NI myRIO Student Embedded Device.
   
4. NI ELVIS RIO Control Module (http://www.ni.com/ni-elvis/control-module/)
   Learn more about the NI ELVIS RIO Control Module.
   
5. Learn RIO (http://www.ni.com/academic/students/learn-rio/)
   Five introductory video tutorials: (1) "What is RIO?", (2) "Setting up Your CompactRIO System"', (3) "Embedded Programming with LabVIEW and CompactRIO", (4) "Create an Embedded State Machine with CompactRIO", and (5) "Learn to Use myRIO".
   
6. NI LabVIEW for CompactRIO Developer's Guide (http://www.ni.com/compactriodevguide/)
   From the webpage: 'The National Instruments CompactRIO Developers Guide provides an overview of recommended architectures and development practices when programming NI CompactRIO controllers. Intended as complementary material to standard LabVIEW Real-Time Module and LabVIEW FPGA Module training, this guide features documentation and examples as a framework for designing industrial control and monitoring applications.'