(Huntsville, Alabama — June 29, 2009)
Future Designs, Inc. has introduced a new addition to their modular development platform that supports various size touchscreen LCD devices from multiple vendors. The design supports ARM microprocessor and microcontroller devices in three popular families – the ARM926EJ, ARM7TDMI-S and Cortex-M3. The new ARM9 based platform was introduced last week to complement the initial product, the DK-57TS-LPC2478. The DK-57TS-LPC3250 includes a Toshiba 5.7” TFT LCD with integrated touchscreen and is based on the NXP LPC3250 266 MHz ARM926EJ-S microcontroller with integrated LCD driver. The “brain” of the system is a SOC module called the SOMDIMM-LPC3250. This modular 200pin SODIMM is 2.66” x 1.89” and contains the LPC3250 microcontroller, along with 256MB of external NAND FLASH, 32MB of SDRAM and support circuits. The kit includes the Linux Operating System with a full complement of software driver support.
The DK-57TS-LPC3250 development kit is priced at $480.00 and the SOMDIMM-LPC3250 is priced at $99.75. Both are available now from Digi-Key and Mouser.
Kits with 5.7” VGA LCD support and also kits with lower cost 3.5” QVGA LCDs will be released in the third quarter. New kits for the NXP LPC1768 100 MHz Cortex-M3 will be released later in the year.
FDI offers cost effective design and customization services for customer specific hardware, software or repackaging applications for volumes as low as 500 units.