Important Note: For new designs, National Instruments recommends the CompactRIO platform.
Using the NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module, you can develop powerful data-logging, control, and measurement systems on your PC and easily embed your application on the NI cFP-2020 intelligent controller for reliable distributed or stand-alone deployment. You can embed all the intelligence, advanced control, and analysis capabilities of LabVIEW in a small modular package suitable for industrial environments.
The cFP-2020 features an Ethernet port, four serial ports, removable CompactFlash storage, and extended DRAM memory for larger and more advanced applications. Engineers and scientists typically use cFP-20xx controllers in applications requiring industrial-grade reliability - such as stand-alone data-logging, analog process, and discrete control systems - to run PID control loops, actuate valves and motors, take measurements, perform real-time analysis and simulation, log data, and communicate over serial, phone, and Ethernet.
Once deployed, the controller can communicate peer to peer with other cFP-20xx or FP-20xx intelligent FieldPoint controllers, or with nonintelligent network interfaces such as an FP-16xx and FP-1000. In addition, the cFP-2020 interface automatically publishes I/O measurements to a Windows computer running FieldPoint Explorer, LabVIEW, the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control Module, LabWindows™/CVI, Lookout, or your choice of OLE for process control (OPC) client application software. It also easily integrates with existing legacy or programmable logic controller (PLC) systems.
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