Compact Field Point with a Touch panel

[jtc]

Hi.

Have anyone designed a NI Compact Field Point or Compact RIO with a connected Touch Panel Monitor?

I have an instrument with RS232 output (serial data). Since I am using LabVIEW 8,   

the executed application should run in Embedded WinXP. But, I need a touch panel for control and monitoring.

I would appreciate any advise please.

Thanks in advance.

Bon

[Efosa O.]

Bong, hello.

I believe this is exactly what you are looking for. Please repost if you have any other questions.

TPC 2006

Efosa O.
NIAE

[jtc]

Dear Efosa,

Thank you for the reply.

How it will work? I have a program made from LabVIEW 8.0, then using PDA Module, the program will run in either Compact RIO or Compact Field Point? And this TPC-2006 is connected by ethernet to the CRIO. Are the DIO points I designated in the original application will be read by the DIO of CRIO?

Thank you for bearing with me.

Regards,

Bong

[Efosa O.]

Bong hello.

The cRIO application will continue running on the cRIO controller. The TPC 2006 will give you a user interface so you can control inputs and receive feedback. You will program a TPC 2006 appication and this will communicate back and forth with the application running on the cRIO controller.

In order to program cRIO, you have to use LabVIEW FPGA. If this is the software you used to configure your DIO for the cRIO, then everything should map correctly if you move the program from one place to another. However, if you programmed FieldPoint, then there is no mapping whatsoever. FieldPoint and cRIO use completely different drivers.

One thing to note is that the cRIO/FieldPoint application will continue to run on their respective controllers while the TPC 2006 will run the user interface application. In LabVIEW 8.0, you will have to use TCP to communicate back and forth with your application. However, with the new LabVIEW 8.20, you are able to use shared variables. It makes life so much easier.

Efosa O.
NIAE