Display platform removes the need for any coding

By removing the need for coding, the platform reduces development time for even the most advanced displays. To allow users to easily add elements to their project, the PanelPilotACE Design Studio software provides a number of building blocks. From background images to text elements, analogue and digital style meters, touch-screen navigation elements and complex logic statements, users can build multi-screen interfaces without needing to write a single line of code.

When complete, the designs are uploaded via USB to the SGD 43-A, the first PanelPilotACE compatible display hardware. Featuring multiple standard inputs and interfaces, the display allows users to implement touch-screen navigation, measurement and display of analogue, digital and bus inputs, as well as control of outputs and alarms.

Although the PanelPilotACE Design Studio software is provided with a library of pre-defined elements, users can also create or import their own elements, enabling the display to be tailored for almost any industrial or commercial application. Designed to be panel mounted, the SGD 43-A is easy to integrate into a range of industrial and manufacturing applications and processes. The display can also be adapted for other commercial uses - as a touch-screen control panel in medical devices, for monitoring in scientific research, or even as an information display in museums or other public buildings.

Featuring a 4.3” capacitive touch-screen, the display is offered with a ARM 9 processor running embedded Linux. The display, which is powered either from USB or a 5V-30V DC supply, features four 16-bit bi-polar analogue inputs, eight digital input/output pins, two alarm outputs (max current sink 10mA) and four PWM outputs. 

Ben Savage, PanelPilot Manager, Lascar, said: “PanelPilotACE really does make the development of advanced user interfaces as simple as dragging and dropping all of the elements you want onto a screen. That ease-of-use means that PanelPilotACE is a true blank canvas - enabling users to quickly create, at a fraction of the cost of alternative development paths, an almost unlimited variety of intuitive interfaces. PanelPilotACE is the only solution on the market that combines simple drag-and-drop design software with a ready-to-go hardware solution. As a result no other product offers the functionality at the same price point with such minimal development time.”