National Instruments Corporation

Ariane M Chan-You

Kosta Ilic

Tianming Liang

Gerardo Garcia

Lei Zhang

Matthew E Novacek

Christopher Frederick Graf

Lei Song

Matthew C Curtis

Amanda E Cruess

Jonathan Hawks

A system and method for configuring objects in a system diagram to access interfaces of other objects are described. A first node and a second node may be displayed in the system diagram. The second node may implement one or more interfaces, where each interface includes one or more callable functions. An interface wire connecting the first node to the second node may be displayed in response to user input. The system may automatically configure the first node to access at least one of the one or more interfaces of the second node in response to displaying the interface wire.

Interface wires for a measurement system diagram

System and method for managing and specifying hardware implementation of a graphical program. A graphical program that implements an algorithm is stored in a memory of a computer system. The graphical program meets one or more first specified implementation requirements and is targeted for deployment to a programmable hardware element. A plurality of sets of descriptive directives are also stored in the memory, where the descriptive directives are associated with the graphical program and specify one or more additional specified implementation requirements, e.g., memory resource implementations, optimization directives, and so forth, where the additional directives result from programmatic and/or user-specification. Each set of descriptive directives is useable by a synthesis tool to generate a respective hardware configuration program for deployment to the graphical programmable hardware element.

Managing hardware implementation and deployment of a graphical program

Interactively designing a hardware implementation of a graphical program

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Ariane M Chan-You