Patent ID: 8543976

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for configuring a target processing entity to implement a graphical program, the method comprising: receiving the graphical program at a host computer system that is different from the target processing entity; specifying a first portion of the graphical program for execution by a processor of the target processing entity; specifying a second portion of the graphical program for execution by a programmable logic device of the target processing entity, at least one block of the second portion of the graphical program connected to at least one block of the first portion of the graphical program; configuring the target processing entity, the configuring comprising: creating a single build file based on the first and second portions of the graphical program, the single build file including: an executable code section to implement the first portion of the graphical program, a communication interface section to implement the connection between the at least one block of the first portion with the at least one block of the second portion, and a configuration section to implement the second portion of the graphical program; and transmitting the single build file from the host computer to the target processing entity.