Revelation kit simplifies TFT display implementation

3rd November 2016

Renesas

Enaie Azambuja

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Renesas Electronics Europe announced a solution kit including promotional board that enables system designers to quickly implement a TFT-based HMI at lower BOM cost. The RX71M revelation kit is based on Renesas’ scalable 32-bit RX71M Group of MCUs, which provides up to 4-MB on-chip flash memory, 552-KB on-chip RAM and a high performance of 240 MHz. The kit also comes with a “Get Started” book and a hands-on guide to create graphical user interfaces.

There is an increasing demand for graphical TFT displays. However, they usually involve the use of a graphics controller, which can be both time-consuming and expensive to implement.

Renesas’ new RX71M revelation kit is a cost-effective solution kit that enables system designers to create cost-effective and efficient TFT control using the embedded RAM of the RX71M – and no external memory modules. As that there is no requirement for external memory to serve as a video buffer, the revelation kit significantly simplifies the design process and reduces the system BOM cost.

The revelation kit includes the RX71M MCU based on 40 nm technology, delivers outstanding performance of 4.35 CoreMark/MHz at a CPU frequency of 240 MHz which makes the MCU suitable for use in a variety of applications requiring high performance.

The performance of the RX71M and embedded 552 kB RAM supports QVGA resolution for the TFT (320 x 240) with up to 16-bit colours per pixel. The CPU of the RX71M only requires about 5% power to display an image, leaving plenty of resources for other application functions, such as connectivity.

To complement the kit, Renesas has published an instruction book together with the German publisher Franzis Verlag that enables users to get started right away. The RX71M revelation kit and “Get started Book” are now available via Renesas Sales channels or at the Renesas booth in hall A6/342 during electronica 2016.

For those, who are not able to make it to the Renesas booth, the RX71M revelation kit is now widely available for around 60 Euro at different distributors and also at our Renesas Shop.