Four new single board level embedded devices for custom embedded control and monitoring applications feature a real-time processor, Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, analog and digital I/O and more built-in peripherals. The new Single-Board RIO devices from National Instruments provide engineers with off-the-shelf FPGA and real-time processor technology through NI LabView while maintaining the custom I/O often required for high-volume deployments through the option of a RIO mezzanine card connector. The connector provides direct access to FPGA digital input/output (DIO) lines and certain processor-specific functions for mating custom daughter cards. NI Single-Board RIO alleviates the effort of designing an entire system from scratch so designers can focus on the custom parts of their application, such as the I/O.

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