The NI TPC-2012 touch panel computer works with the National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module, giving control and design engineers another option for deploying the LabVIEW graphical development environment on Windows CE HMI devices for machine control, embedded control and distributed data acquisition systems.

Additionally, the NI LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module works with LabVIEW shared variables, making it even easier to share data between real-time controllers – such as PXI and NI Compact FieldPoint, CompactRIO and Compact Vision System – and Windows CE devices, including the TPC-2012 and HMIs from companies such as Advantech, a Windows CE hardware provider. System designers can use the built-in Modbus serial, Modbus TCP/IP and Modbus ASCII communication in LabVIEW to communicate between third-party HMIs and Modbus hardware.