Testing CVI program that communicates with FPGA on development computer without FPGA

I have a CVI program that needs to communicate with an FPGA. My current computer doesn't have the actual FPGA installed into it. I was wondering, can I do something like in LabVIEW where I can run a simulated FPGA and test the NiFpga API calls to that instead? Is that possible or do I need the actual FPGA to do this? I just want to make sure that the API calls I'm using are working properly, and it should help speed up testing.

Thanks