Unique Low-Cost Touchscreen Reference Solution
Make your product stand out with an attractive, engaging and easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI). Our Integrated Graphics and Touch (IGaT) Development Kit offers you a unique low-cost user interface reference solution that implements graphics, touchscreen, and machine learning based gesture recognition by a single MCU.
Developers who have struggled with design complexity of graphical user interface (GUI) and touchscreen, will now be able to get started without hassles thanks to Integrated Graphics and Touch (IGaT) board.
What Are Your End Customers Looking For?
Consumers nowaday, expect a smartphone-like experience with any device that they interact with. These touchscreen-based interfaces let them use the single- and dual-finger gestures they are familiar with to control their devices easily while displaying attractive graphics. This type of interface can add control features pretty much to everywhere: white goods, small appliances, vehicle climate control, industrial automation and many other applications. A high-quality user interface provides reliable functionality, easy interaction and robust performance in all environments.
Design Challenges You May Face
The traditional approach to an interactive touchscreen includes two- or three chips, meaning higher total system cost and bigger form factor. You will need one or two microcontrollers to run the application code and to drive graphics and display, and a dedicated touchscreen controller to drive the touchscreen. Each of the chip will have different development environment and software library (which may not be free), making the design even more complex and costly.
What’s Our Solution for You?
Our Integrated Graphics and Touch (IGaT) Development Kit (EV14C17A) is a unique low-cost user interface reference solution that uses a single MCU, an Arm® Cortex® -M4 based SAME51, to implement both the graphics and the touchscreen. And all development can be done within the same development environment: MPLAB® X IDE and MPLAB® Harmony v3 embedded software framework, free of charge.
It features a 480x320 HVGA Smart Display module with a Capacitive Touch Sensor Overlay from our display partner Rocktech Displays.
The graphics function uses the MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Library and display driver to deliver the UI frames to the smart display module thru an 8-bit parallel 8080 interface. The MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite (MHGS) offers an intuitive “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG)-based embedded GUI development system which allows you to visualize display timing and generate your own display controller driver, with minimal to no code written. This will highly reduce your development time, cost and risk.
The touch function uses the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) peripheral that is integrated into the SAME51 MCU to acquire touch sensor information from the capacitive touch sensor (on the smart display module). We implemented this sensor using a unique 2D flower pattern that increases the precision of physical interpolation and provides for greater touch position linearity over standard diamond patterns. The SAME51 MCU leverages the MPLAB® Harmony v3 Touch Library to correctly interpret 2D touch and gestures.
On top of graphics and touchscreen functions, the platform also allows you to add complex gesture detection with Machine Learning (ML).
All firmware and application showcases are included in the MPLAB® Harmony v3 embedded software framework and preloaded out of the box. Our IGaT Development Kit eliminates the barriers to develop a striking touchscreen enabled GUI with a single chip solution and maximizes the functions and values of your end products.
Learn more about this solution on the IGaT Reference Solution page.
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For purchasing information, visit https://www.microchipdirect.com/dev-tools/EV14C17A .