Intelligent Displays at the Embedded World 2010

demmel products introduced its smallest and most competitively priced “Next Generation Intelligent LCD” (iLCD) with a 2.8 screen diagonal at this year’s Embedded World on booth 12-541, hall 12.
By adding a low-cost model to the range of existing intelligent displays even price sensitive applications can now be equipped with a color display. Development costs are almost completely eliminated and time-to-market is shortened significantly when using iLCDs, making them ideal even for low quantity production runs.

The extremely compact 240 x 320 pixel iLCD is equipped with a touch screen and can be operated in both portrait and landscape mode.

All iLCD panels can store any desired Windows font, static and animated graphics, text messages and macros in the iLCD controller's flash memory. iLCDs offer USB, RS232, I²C and SPI interfaces and can be controlled with a microcontroller costing as little as 50 cents. The large number of very powerful high-level commands is easy to learn, no programming language is required.

Color iLCD panels are available in a wide range of formats from 2.8 to 10.2 (1024 x 600 pixel) and every model comes with the same set of commands and electrical connections. If necessary, iLCDs of different sizes can easily be swapped without having to modify either the hardware or software of the controlling application. On larger iLCDs, the controller's 32 MB flash memory can be extended via an on-board micro SD card holder.

A battery-backed real-time clock, interface options for a keyboard matrix, relays and signal transmitters as well as additional digital and analog inputs and outputs can simplify the application even further.