Industrial Windows CE Touch Panel Computer

Overview

The National Instruments TPC-2012 touch panel computer features a 12.1 in.

high-quality SVGA LCD touch screen with 800 x 600 resolution. The

NI TPC-2012 offers a 500 MHz AMD GX3 processor and 256 MB DDR

SDRAM, providing a powerful processor for human machine interface

(HMI) graphics and shared variable communication. The system comes

with Windows CE installed on a 128 MB CompactFlash storage card.

The built-in 10/100 Ethernet port offers TCP/IP and Modbus TCP/IP

communication using NI LabVIEW shared variables, TCP/IP VIs, or the

Modbus LabVIEW library. The two USB ports provide connectivity for

external memory, keyboard, and mouse.

LabVIEW for HMI Development

The TPC-2012 works with the LabVIEW Touch Panel Module and

includes one Touch Panel Deployment license. LabVIEW offers an

integrated graphical development environment for creating embedded

programs for real-time hardware using the LabVIEW Real-Time

Module. Or you can download code directly to FPGAs using the

LabVIEW FPGA Module and then easily add an on-machine or local HMI

with the LabVIEW Touch Panel Module and a Windows CE touch panel

computer. You can easily add Windows CE targets such as the TPC-2012

and

TPC-2006 to a LabVIEW Project, create host-shared variables on any

LabVIEW Real-Time target, and drag them from the LabVIEW Project

to the HMI application.

Software Configuration Utilities

The TPC-2012 runs the Windows CE.NET OS and comes with configuration

and remote access utilities installed. These utilities include an IP address

configurator, configuration for FTP and other utilities over a Web server,

and Remote Display, which works in conjunction with the Windows CE

Remote Display Host application, so you can remotely control the TPC-2012

from a host PC STE.

• 12.1 in. SVGA TFT LCD touch screen

with 800 x 600 resolution

• GX3 LX800 500 MHz

• 256 MB DDR SDRAM memory and

128 MB CompactFlash storage

• Communication ports

• 2 Hi-Speed USB

• 1 Ethernet (10/100BaseT)

• 3 RS232

• 1 RS232/485

• Keyboard/mouse PS2

• NEMA4/IP65-compliant front panel

Software

• Windows CE.NET 5.0 installed on

128 MB CompactFlash

• LabVIEW Touch Panel Module certified,

with one Touch Panel Deployment License

NI TPC-2012

Figure 1. TPC-2012 Connectivity

Figure 2. TPC-2012 Dimensions (mm)

a. CPU card cover

b. 2.5 in. HDD

c. PCI-104 slot

d. CompactFlash slot

e. Parallel port

f. Serial ports

g. Ethernet port

h. USB ports

i. Power switch

j. PS/2 ports