Electronics: Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp. announced it now stocks Amulet Technologies‘ new GUI Color Starter Kit.
Available on Digi-Key’s global websites (Digi-Key part number 681-1016-ND), the Color Starter Kit (MSRP $599) is being offered at a special introductory price of USD$299.
Developed as an antidote to costly and cumbersome GUI development tools, Amulet’s new kit enables OEMs to quickly and cost effectively meet customer demand for sophisticated and appealing graphical displays in such products as home appliances, consumer electronics, medical devices and automobiles. The kit provides everything needed to create and drive color-rich GUI displays. Features include:
480 x 272 TFD LCD - 16:9 (wide aspect ratio) display with white LED backlight, integrated resistive touch panel.
Amulet AGB75LC04-QU-E (208-pin) Graphical OS Chip.
Electronic interface options on demo - USB 2.0, RS232, 3.3v UART.
Royalty-free graphical operating system/
Onboard memory - 32 megabit serial Flash for storing micro HTMLTM GUI pages, 64-megabit SDRAM (frame buffer).
Touch panel controller - built into graphical OS chip.
Color supported - up to 24-bit (8-bit red, 8-bit blue, 8-bit green) + alpha channel (8-bit opacity control and anti-aliasing).
Graphics supported - PNG, GIF, JPEG
Backlight control - PWM built into graphical OS chip. Backlight can be controlled via the touch panel or HTML command.
Supports Unicode - foreign language characters set.
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