Hello,

I have heard there is a program called labview where fpga's are programed and codes are transformed into VHDL directly. Is this benefical or is it always best to use your own vhdl codes? can it be used for commercial purpose?

Labview is developed by National Instuments in Austin, Texas. It is my understanding that they translate a graphical interface into VHDL code and then program Xilinx FPGAs on boards that are designed by themselves. I do not believe it is useful for generic FPGA programming. It is useful for people who buy National Instruments systems and want to use the National Instruments graphical inteface to program National Instruments FPGA based boards. These people that do this do not need to learn VHDL.

Vendors such as Xilinx also have graphical programming methods for their embedded systems(microblaze, etc) if that is what you want to use.

Just to clarify, the Labview FPGA tools will *only* work on National Instruments FPGA hardware. If you want to use your own FPGA hardware, you simply cannot.

A right shame, in my opinion.