(Huntsville, Alabama — May 05, 2014)
The latest addition to Future Designs’ µEZ® GUI Family, the uEZGUI-4088-43WQN, features a 4.3” WQVGA display (480 x 272) with a Projected Capacitive (PCAP) Touchscreen interface. With customer demand for PCAP Touchscreens in GUI and HMI applications increasing rapidly due to the influence of consumer products like smart phones and tablet PCs, FDI is excited to offer a PCAP touchscreen solution for the embedded market.
This newest PCAP offering compliments FDI’s standard 4.3” WQVGA µEZ® GUI unit, P/N uEZGUI-1788-43WQR, which includes a 4-wire resistive touchscreen. Together these two units offer customers a choice of touchscreen technology in our off-the-shelf GUI units. “We’re excited to offer a capacitive touch version of this popular size format in the µEZ GUI family,” says Kent Lowman, President of FDI. “We think this addition will offer a wide array of choice for our customers and we already have several confirmed design wins on this new version.”
uEZGUI-4088-43WQN
Future Design’s new µEZ® GUI 4.3” is a compact, highly integrated, Touchscreen LCD controller platform that can be quickly and easily integrated into your product. The µEZGUI-4088-43WQN is based on the LPC4088 microprocessor from NXP and has 8MB of SDRAM (optional up to 32MB). In addition, the unit also contains 16MB of high speed SPIFI or Quad-SPI Serial Flash. The unit includes a 4.3” WQVGA TFT LCD with PCAP touchscreen and dimensions for the complete assembly are only 4.60″ x 2.84″ X 0.56″ tall.
On-board features include: USB Host/Device interface, high speed micro SD memory card with 15fps video playback, Real-Time Clock with Super Cap backup, 3-axis accelerometer, headphone jack, speaker, PMOD, temperature sensor and a mini JTAG connector. The unit features a fully integrated Projected Capacitive or PCAP touchscreen with integrated LED backlight driver and control circuit. Optional features include a 802.11n Wi-Fi module via the integrated PMOD type 2A interface. The unit also supports the addition of various Expansion Boards for additional communication interface options like USB Host, Ethernet, CAN, RS485, and RS232 support.
The µEZGUI-4088-43WQN features video playback capability from the high speed micro SD Card using a simple technique developed by FDI. Video playback is full-screen WQVGA resolution with a 15 frame per second playback rate and is useful for functions such as Quick Start Instructions at boot-up, detailed trouble shooting guides or even product advertising when the unit is idle.
The kit is based on FDI’s µEZ® Rapid Development Platform (pronounced “Muse”), which includes an extensive library of open-source software, drivers, and processor support, all under a common framework. μEZ development works on the premise of “design once, reuse many times.” μEZ allows companies to focus on innovation and on their own value-added applications while minimizing development time and maximizing software reuse.
The µEZGUI-4088-43WQN kit also includes a Segger J-Link Lite JTAG debugger and the powerful Segger emWin GUI software development package along with all cables. All documentation and sample videos are included on the 4GB micro SD card and when the unit is plugged into a PC the card appears as a USB Flash drive so the documentation can easily be copied to the PC. The unit is also available as a stand-alone board assembly for cost effective use in volume production, under Part Number uEZGUI-4088-43WQN-BA. Volume pricing for the –BA assembly is around $175.00 at 1Ku. Both the Dev Kit and the production Board Assembly are available through any of our franchised distributors including Avnet Embedded, Digi-Key and Mouser. More information on these products can be found on our website at www.uezgui.com or at www.teamfdi.com
About Future Designs, Inc.
Future Designs, Inc. is a full service design and production company with hardware, software, mechanical and system level expertise. We offer one stop shopping for our customers and provide “as much” or “as little” help as needed to get your product to market.
FDI can take your concept all the way from the back of a napkin, through design and prototypes, to high volume production, branded with your logo and shipped directly to your end customers. Our µEZ® GUI Family of integrated solutions for Touchscreen LCD Graphical User Interfaces provides an “Off The Shelf” solution that allows customers to quickly and cost effectively upgrade their User Interfaces to meet today’s market requirements.
FDI has a proven 25 year history of successful product design and manufacturing. Please give us a call at (256) 883-1240 to find out how we can help make your product a success. Visit FDI on the web at www.teamfdi.com.
Contact for Future Designs, Inc.
Kent Lowman
Future Designs, Inc.
256-883-1240
[email protected]