The ability to add intuitive and responsive touch-sensitive panels to almost any appliance is creating new opportunities for OEMs at every stage in the supply chain. By Chee Ee Lee, Head of Engineering, Product Research Facility (Singapore), FTDI Chip

Bringing more comprehensive support to its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) product offering, FTDI Chip's EVE Screen Designer is available to download for free. Suitable for use with Windows 7 and above, the development suite enables the creation of advanced HMIs, via EVE’s innovative object-oriented approach, without any understanding of EVE display lists.

EVE platforms, targeted at the creation of intelligent display systems using capacitive touch, have been released by FTDI Chip. Based on the FT801 EVE chip, the VM801B and VM801P support one to five independent touch points, enabling gestures such as rotations, swipes, pinches and zooms. The devices can source power at 5V via a 2.1mm power jack, USB Micro-B port or SPI master connector. Via a I2C interface, the EVEs can alternatively source power...

Providing data bursting rates of up to 3.2Gb/s, the FT600Q and FT601Q ICs, which function as SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to FIFO bridges, have been released by FTDI Chip. The FT600Q comes in 56-pin QFN package and has a 16-bit wide FIFO bus interface, while FT601Q comes in 76-pin QFN package and has a 32-bit wide FIFO bus interface.

MikroElektronika has signed a formal agreement with FTDI Chip to create mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers for the FT90X 32-bit microcontroller offering. The FT90X utilises a proprietary 32-bit RISC architecture - allowing it to set performance benchmarks beyond 2.93DMIPS/MHz, with true zero wait-states operation up to 100MHz frequencies, as well as capacious memory and an array of advanced connectivity resources.

A series of easy-to-use, Arduino-compatible, development platforms has been introduced by FTDI Chip. The VM800P series (where P signifies PLUS) furnishes engineers with everything necessary to implement more effective HMIs – including not only display, audio and touch elements, but data processing aspects too.

Now including a selective suspend feature, FTDI Chip's USB driver portfolio has been updated. With the launch of lower powered versions of X-Chip series proving highly successful, the company has now followed this up with enhanced power management in the accompanying driver technology.  

Designed for high speed, computational intensive tasks, the FT900 MCU has been released by FTDI Chip. The 32-bit MCU can run at clock speeds up to 100MHz and can be used in combination with the company's FT800 EVE chip.

Adding to its range of hardware solutions for those working with the Arduino open-source electronics development platform, FTDI Chip has announced the FT121 G-Sensor shield. Focussing on the implementation of Arduino-based gaming systems, the FT121 G-Sensor shield enables such projects to be conceived and subsequently executed simply and rapidly through its USB human interface device (HID) class support.

FTDI Chip and 4D Systems announce that their technology partnership has resulted in the development of a highly advanced intelligent SPI display, the 4DLCD-FT843. Enabling system designers to rapidly create high-quality human machine interfaces, the new 4DLCD-FT843 is based on FTDI Chip’s FT800 Embedded Video Engine.

FTDI Chip annonce aujourd'hui le lancement de la famille de modules de développement VM800C au format carte de crédit (85.6 x 54.1 mm), et de la version VM800B dotée d'un boîtier plastique à collerette. L'offre comprend 11 modèles spécifiques en tout, tous basés sur la plateforme EVE (Embedded Video Engine, ou moteur vidéo embarqué) de la société...

A new approach to implementing GUIs could see their use increase even further in embedded products. Lee Chee Ee, Engineering Manager at FTDI Chip, & Prashanth Boggarapu, Senior Software Engineer at FTDI, explore further in this ES Design magazine article.

FTDI Chip has taken its first steps into another vital application sector. Addressing the need for ever more advanced forms of human-machine interaction, the company has announced the release of the FT800, the initial offering in its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) family.