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MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite (MHGS) Embedded GUI Development Tool for 32-bit MCUs

Powerful Tools and Integration to Reduce Embedded Graphics Development Cost, Time and Risk

GUIs

Animation

Imagery

Creating professional-looking embedded Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) with cost-efficient 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) has never been easier when you use the powerful and free MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite (MHGS). Available within the MPLAB Harmony embedded software development framework, MHGS is specifically designed specifically to take advantage of the capabilities of Microchip’s high-performance, 32-bit embedded graphics MCUs. This tightly integrated system of tools and software allows you to quickly and easily add GUIs, animation and imagery to a graphical display. Its “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG)-based embedded GUI development system comes with unique features that enable you to spend less time fixing bugs and re-integrating code from external tool sets and libraries, reducing your development time, cost and risk in designing compelling new products for your end users.

Why Should You Use MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite for Your Embedded GUI Development?

  • Tightly integrated tools environment: The tight integration between MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE), MPLAB Harmony embedded software development framework and MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite produces an enhanced, interactive development environment so you can focus on creating and debugging your application-specific code. This leads to lower overall development costs, a shorter time to market and higher-quality products.
  • Performance: MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite was designed from the ground up to enable code portability across multiple families of 32-bit MCUs while also making maximum use of the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), multi-layer overlay graphics controllers and DRAM available on Microchip’s high-performance 32-bit MCUs.
  • Cost: MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite is free to design with and use with our 32-bit MCUs. It is also royalty free. All components are available in each public release of MPLAB Harmony and work with the free version of the MPLAB XC32 compiler.

Components Available in MPLAB Harmony Graphics Suite

GUI Editor

Whatever your experience level is, the GUI Editor allows you to quickly and easily create professional-looking embedded graphical interfaces that closely match other corporate-branded elements of your product.

  • WYSIWYG GUI drawing screen and tool organizer
  • Objects such as image assets, widgets and text can be placed, moved and modified directly on the display area and then precisely recreated on the target system
  • Also provides tools for layer management and widget editing
  • Display area is tightly coupled to the Display Manager, allowing the GUI Editor to exactly match a wide range of resolutions and aspect ratios

Display Manager

Cut your development and prototyping time for non-standard displays with this industry-exclusive, customized driver generator. The Display Manager is designed to eliminate coding and use data taken straight from the display’s datasheet, lowering the barrier of entry for novice graphics and hardware developers.

  • No coding required—configure display drivers through an easy-to-use embedded GUI interface
  • Uses readily available information from display data sheets
  • Supports standard and non-standard display resolutions and aspect ratios
  • Provides simulated timing characteristics for rapid visual inspection and validation
  • Works with internal, external or low-cost-controllerless driver models  

Font Manager

Fonts are an important part of maintaining a consistent and professional look and feel between products and corporate marketing collateral. The Font Manager makes quick work of importing and applying the correct fonts for your embedded graphics application.

  • Language-independent font import supports efficient application localization
  • Can automatically select necessary glyphs to save memory, leading to potentially smaller, lower-cost designs, or filter glyph selections in a user-selected range
  • Import and use custom corporate fonts as well as system fonts to support brand management
  • Word-processor-like font style support for ease of use and customization
  • Support for custom character and line spacing, UTF-8 and UTF-16 multi-language fonts

Event Manager

It’s natural for embedded designs to require that graphics react to external events, such as button presses and changes in sensor readings. The wizard-based Event Manager drives minimally coded tight coupling to enable touch user events and external logical events that change the graphics state machine and graphics properties.

  • GUI interface manages all touch events and gestures associated with embedded graphics applications
  • Fine-grained event and gesture definition enables the customized look and feel for your user interface
  • Import or create custom, user-defined actions per event and gesture, or use actions already associated with in-tool widgets
  • Macro-based development environment to program graphics actions to external events

String Manager

To be practical and profitable, embedded graphics designs must be flexible and memory efficient. The String Manager contains many easy-to-use features for text customization for branding, localization and stylization.

  • Built-in, GUI-based localization support enables quick and easy language editions
  • Languages can be selected and deselected at build time to reduce memory footprint, which reduces costs
  • Style binding of test strings enables rapid customization and prototyping to easy form, fit and function text design
  • Translations can be imported via a spreadsheet file, enabling expert localization support

Need Help Getting Started or Want to Learn More?

The Microchip MPLAB Harmony v3 Graphics Wiki on GitHub has resources to help you get started with designing amazing GUIs with our microcontrollers. The wiki includes information on basic graphics concepts, a discussion of the importance of graphics in embedded devices, a breakdown of the available widgets in the MHGS library and details on how MHGS works to help you develop fast, beautiful GUIs for your design. It also includes repositories for the MPLAB Harmony v3 Graphics Support Package and Graphics Application Package. Use the links on the right to navigate to the wiki.

Go to Graphics Wiki
Go to Graphics Support Package Repository
Go to Graphics Applications Package Repository

Check Out These Quick Start Guides

Creating a New Graphics Application

Go from concept to glass in minutes instead of days. This “how-to” guide takes you step by step through the process of creating a graphics-enabled application from scratch using MHGS.

Go to Tutorial

Adding an Event to a Graphics Application

An excellent embedded GUI allows the user to easily interact with it. This guide shows you how to enable your graphics application to recognize and respond to touches, swipes and other user interactions.

Go to Tutorial

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Product Status 5K Pricing CPU Type Architecture CPU Speed (MIPS/DMIPS) Program Memory Size (KB) Auxiliary Flash (KB) Multiple Flash Panels Code-Guard Security RAM (KB) Data EEPROM/HEF (Bytes) Max I/O Pins Pincount Brown-Out Reset Low Voltage Detection Power On Reset Watch Dog Timer Internal Osc better than 1% accuracy Hardware RTCC/RTC Direct Memory Access Channels Low Power Vbat/Vddbu battery backup Number of Comparators Comparator max speed (ns) Number of ADCs ADC Input Max ADC Resolution (Bits) Max ADC Sampling Rate (ksps) Hardware Cap Voltage Divider Number of DACs DAC Outputs Max DAC Resolution (Bits) Internal Voltage Reference (Bandgap) Number of Op Amps CTMU test UART SPI I2C I2S Configurable Logic Cell (CLC/CCL) Peripheral Trigger Generator Peripheral Pin Select / Pin Muxing Number of USB Modules USB Interface Number of CAN Modules LIN SENT IrDA Capture / Compare/PWM (CCP) Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM (ECCP) Single output CCP (SCCP) Multiple output CCP (MCCP) Standalone Output Compare/ Standard PWM Motor Control PWM Outputs SMPS PWM Outputs Input Capture Max PWM outputs (including complementary) Number of PWM Time Bases PWM Max Resolution (Bits) PWM Resolution (ns) Class B Safety Library Quadrature Encoder Interface Segmented LCD Graphics Controller/GPU Crypto Engine Parallel Port Max 8-Bit Digital Timers Max 16-Bit Digital Timers Max 32-Bit Digital Timers CRC Temp Range Min Temp Range Max Operation Voltage Min (V) Operation Voltage Max (V) Packages
ATSAMA5D225C-D1M In Production $7.35 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 90 196 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 5 12 1000 Yes 9 7 7 2 Yes 2 High Speed 1 Yes Yes 5 8 5 13 9 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 5 Yes -40 85 3.1 3.4 196/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D27C-D1G In Production $10.69 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 289 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 289/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D27C-D5M In Production $9.17 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 289 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 289/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D27C-LD1G In Production $11.32 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 361 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 361/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D27C-LD2G In Production $13.46 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 361 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 361/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D27-SOM1 In Production $29.40 Cortex-A5 32 785 8000 No 128 103 176 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 5 12 1000 Yes 9 7 7 2 Yes 2 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 5 8 5 13 9 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 5 Yes -40 85 3.1 3.4 176/MODULE
ATSAMA5D27-WLSOM1 In Production $44.84 Cortex-A5 32 785 8000 No 128 94 188 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 6 12 1000 Yes 5 2 1 2 Yes 2 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 5 8 5 13 9 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 5 Yes -40 85 3 5.5 188/Module
ATSAMA5D28C-D1G In Production $17.13 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 289 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 289/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D28C-LD1G In Production Call for pricing Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 361 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 361/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D28C-LD2G In Production Call for pricing Cortex-A5 32 785 0 No 128 128 361 Yes Yes Yes 51 No Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 10 7 7 2 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 8 6 14 10 32 3 2 Yes Yes EBI 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 361/TFBGA
SAM9X60 In Production $4.56 ARM926 32 660 0 No 68 112 228 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 13 6 13 1 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 0 6 10 10 32 5 2 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 No -40 105 1.02 1.21 228/TFBGA
SAM9X60D1G In Production $8.72 ARM926 32 660 0 No 68 112 233 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 13 6 13 1 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 0 6 10 10 32 5 2 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 No -40 85 1.02 1.21 233/TFBGA
SAM9X60D5M In Production $7.28 ARM926 32 660 0 No 68 112 233 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 13 6 13 1 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 0 6 10 10 32 5 2 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 No -40 85 1.02 1.21 233/TFBGA
SAM9X60D6K Samples Available $6.10 ARM926 32 660 0 No 68 112 196 Yes Yes Yes 51 Yes Yes 1 12 12 1000 Yes 13 6 13 1 Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 6 0 6 10 10 32 5 2 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 No -40 85 1.02 1.21 196/TFBGA
AT91SAM9261 In Production $8.67 ARM926 32 209 0 0 No None 160 0 96 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 21 No Yes 0 0 0 0 0 0 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 2 1 0 0 False Yes 3 Full Speed 0 No Yes 0 0 0 0 3 8 0 3 3 3 16 8 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 3 0 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 217/LFBGA
AT91SAM9263 In Production $11.69 ARM926 32 220 0 0 No None 96 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 27 No Yes 0 0 0 0 0 0 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 2 1 0 0 False Yes 3 Full Speed 1 No Yes 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 3 11 7 16 7 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 7 0 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 324/TFBGA
AT91SAM9G10 In Production $6.24 ARM926 32 293 0 0 No None 16 0 96 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 22 No Yes 0 0 0 0 0 0 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 4 2 1 0 0 False Yes 3 Full Speed 0 No Yes 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 3 3 16 6 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 3 0 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 217/LFBGA
AT91SAM9G15 In Production $5.73 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No None 32 0 105 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 20 No Yes 0 0 1 12 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 5 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 32 4 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 0 6 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 217/LFBGA
AT91SAM9G35 In Production $6.03 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No None 32 0 105 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 20 No Yes 0 0 1 12 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 5 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 32 4 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 0 6 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 217/LFBGA
AT91SAM9G45 In Production $9.26 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No None 64 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 37 No Yes 0 0 1 8 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 6 2 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 16 4 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 6 0 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 324/TFBGA
AT91SAM9G46 In Production $10.20 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No Basic 64 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 No Yes 0 0 1 8 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 6 2 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 16 4 False 0 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 0 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 324/TFBGA
AT91SAM9M10 In Production $10.95 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No None 64 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 37 No Yes 0 0 1 8 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 6 2 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 16 4 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 6 0 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 324/TFBGA
AT91SAM9M11 In Production $12.05 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No Basic 64 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 No Yes 0 0 1 8 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 6 2 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 16 4 False 0 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 6 0 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 324/TFBGA
AT91SAM9RL64 In Production $6.68 ARM926 32 220 0 0 No None 64 0 118 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 26 No Yes 0 0 1 6 10 220 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 4 1 2 0 0 False Yes 1 High Speed 0 No Yes 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 11 7 16 7 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 6 0 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 217/LFBGA
AT91SAM9X35 In Production $6.63 ARM926 32 440 0 0 No None 32 0 105 217 None None Yes Yes No Yes 20 No Yes 0 0 1 12 10 440 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 5 5 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 10 10 32 4 False 0 0 Yes No EBI 0 0 6 Yes -40 85 0.9 1.1 217/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D21 In Production $4.86 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 72 196 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 5 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 9 6 6 2 0 False Yes 2 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 196/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D22 In Production $4.86 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 72 196 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 5 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 9 6 6 2 0 False Yes 2 High Speed 1 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 105 1.1 1.32 196/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D23 In Production $7.09 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 72 196 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 5 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 9 6 6 2 0 False Yes 2 High Speed 1 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 105 1.1 1.32 196/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D24 In Production $5.80 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 105 256 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 10 7 7 2 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 8 0 6 14 10 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 6 Yes -40 85 1.1 1.32 256/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D26 In Production $5.60 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 128 289 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 10 7 7 2 0 False Yes 2 High Speed 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 8 0 6 14 10 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 6 Yes -40 105 1.1 1.32 289/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D27 In Production $6.18 Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 128 289 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 10 7 7 2 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 8 0 6 14 10 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 6 Yes -40 105 1.1 1.32 289/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D28 In Production Call for pricing Cortex-A5 32 785 0 0 No Advanced 128 0 128 289 None None Yes Yes No Yes 51 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 10 7 7 2 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 Yes Yes 0 0 0 0 6 8 0 6 14 10 32 3 False 2 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 6 Yes -40 105 1.1 1.32 289/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D31 In Production $7.22 Cortex-A5 32 842 0 0 No Intermediate 128 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 6 6 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 No Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 2 False 0 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 324/LFBGA, 324/TFBGA
ATSAMA5D33 In Production $7.58 Cortex-A5 32 842 0 0 No Intermediate 128 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 4 6 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 No Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 2 False 0 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 324/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D34 In Production $8.00 Cortex-A5 32 842 0 0 No Intermediate 128 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 Yes Yes 0 0 1 12 12 1000 False 0 0 0 Yes 0 No 4 6 3 0 0 False Yes 3 High Speed 2 No Yes 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 5 13 9 32 2 False 0 0 Yes Yes EBI 0 4 5 Yes -40 85 1.08 1.32 324/LFBGA
ATSAMA5D36 In Production $8.21 Cortex-A5 32 842 0 0 No Intermediate 128 0 160 324 None None Yes Yes No Yes 39 Yes