MSC-Gleichmann Electronics has created a new business group to address the market for embedded display systems.
As part of this activity the distributor is developing a number of reference designs and development boards.
The first board is based on Renesas' H8SX/1668R microcontroller.
Also in the pipeline could be evaluation boards from Atmel, Samsung and NEC Electronics are also already being investigated for their suitability for special TFT reference designs.
"You can also use an industrial PC or an additional graphics board for the control of small 2.2-inch to 10.4-inch TFT colour displays. However, in many cases a somewhat more powerful microcontroller with an additional SRAM is sufficient. Such a solution normally costs the user less than 10 Euros and thus only a fraction of the cost of other solutions," said Lothar Felten, manager of MSC-Gleichmann.
Also in the pipeline could be evaluation boards from Atmel, Samsung and NEC Electronics are also already being investigated for their suitability for special TFT reference designs.
"You can also use an industrial PC or an additional graphics board for the control of small 2.2-inch to 10.4-inch TFT colour displays. However, in many cases a somewhat more powerful microcontroller with an additional SRAM is sufficient. Such a solution normally costs the user less than 10 Euros and thus only a fraction of the cost of other solutions," said Lothar Felten, manager of MSC-Gleichmann.
The VisuRDK H8SX Design Kit with evaluation board, 3.5-inch touch panel TFT LCD, E10A-USB JTAG debugger/emulator, circuit diagram and Gerber data.
There is also a software stack for peripheral components such as USB, CAN or Ethernet available from software partners of MSC-Gleichmann.
"Our goal is to make it significantly easier for our customers to build simple TFT display applications, without requiring them to leave their familiar development environment," said Felten.
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