I have not been able to get much help from NI Tech support for a proposed set-up using Labview as basis. I don't have an active license for labview or any NI hardware. However I need help to verify that a proposed system will work before I go ahead and make the company I work for make the investment and purchase License and hardware. I need to use Labview to control an audio measurement system through USB preferably and also use labview to communicate with a device under test ( DUT) through UART. After several attempts NI referred me to Newark their local sales representative for the region I am located in. Sales engineer was not much help. Stated that NI does not sell any hardware that has UART communication. After my own research I found
that the following NI devices do have UART
NI myRIO
NI ELVIS RIO
NI roboRIO
I called Newark back and the same sales rep told me oh yes NI makes these hardware but from their experience only sell these to academic institutions. My questions are
1) Is this the case can these devices above be used only for Academic purposes and not be sold for commercial/ industrial applications?
2) Can anyone confirm that these are the only three Hardware devices made by NI that support UART communications ?
3) Looking at my block diagram is what I am proposing a viable solution or do I need to look else where?
Thank you