How to include additional Serial ports though RMC connector on sbRIO9607 using VISA?
More detailed expressed: sbRIO9607 (single board RIO) can have additional RS232 serial ports added through the RIO Mezzanine Card (RMC) port using the general IO pins.
In the RIO Mezzanine Card Design Guide: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/375536a.pdf on page 24,25 it says about this
You can use any FPGA pins to implement additional RS-232 ports.
Number of interfaces:
• sbRIO-9607—4 (Serial2, Serial3, Serial4, Serial5)
Provided the necessary RMC board electronics interfaces to an appropriate RS-232 or RS-485 serial transceiver on the RMC design as described in the above document is available.
Question:
A) Suppose that the LabVIEW-RT should be able to communicate through this port (or ports). Does one have to implement a serial port FPGA block in the FPGA?
B) If so, how do I define and connect this as a SerialX port to LV-RT such that it can be addressed using VISA standard interface VI's?