HMI kit accelerates prototyping process

6th November 2014

Renesas

Siobhan O'Gorman

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Based on the RX63N and RX631 groups of MCUs, the ‘Display it! – RX HMI Solution Kit' has been released by Renesas Electronics Europe. Accelerating the prototyping and decision-making process, the 32-bit MCU RX based solution kit enables engineers to quickly evaluate and demonstrate HMI tools.

Featuring a touchscreen TFT for medical, instrumentation, home automation, energy management, fitness and transportation products, the ‘Display it! – RX HMI Solution Kit' speeds the development cycle.

The RX63N and RX631 groups, which run on a 100MHz CPU clock frequency, provide up to 256kB embedded RAM and up to 2MB of embedded zero wait state Flash. Up to three channels of CAN 2.0B compliant interfaces and two full speed USBs (Host Function/OTG Function) are offered. For easy connection to a PHY, an MII and RMII compliant Ethernet MAC IEEE 802.3 interface is also provided. An exDMA peripheral that can transfer data over an external bus independently of the internal bus occupation is included with the RX63N and RX631 groups, allowing the MCUs to easily support TFT solutions for up to WQVGA class TFT panels.

The ‘Display it! – RX HMI Solution Kit', based on the RX63N MCU, offers a cost-effective platform for rapid GUI development and deployment. The ‘out of the box’ solution provides testing of GUI demo software products including emWIN from Segger, GUIX from Express Logic, Guiliani from TES, MicroEJ JVM from IS2T and TouchGFX from Draupner. This speeds time-to-market by allowing engineering teams to quickly make decisions on which software is most appropriate for their application.

These boards are also supported by free sample software from Renesas. The RX HMI base board with 4.3” WQVGA graphic/touch display, compiler, debugger and IDE is also provided.

Renesas will be launching the ‘Display it!’ – RX HMI Solution Kit at electronica 2014 as part of a range of next-gen solution kits. The company will be in A6.243 at the trade show. The kit’s part name is YDISPLAY-IT-RX.

“The ‘Display it! – RX HMI Solution Kit' marks the next stage in our strategy of providing our customers with a tool that makes it easier for them to select the right fitting GUI software for their application needs,“ commented Bernd Westhoff, RX Product Manager, Renesas Electronics Europe. “This is why we teamed up with our Alliance partners, including Segger, ExpressLogic, TES, IS2T and Draupner, to develop a unique GUI solution package enabling a quick and easy evaluation of these different solutions, just with one click.”