Product category:
PCs and Embedded Systems
News Release from: Mosaic Industries | Subject: QVGA controller
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 June 2003
Controller comes with
touchscreen-operated GUI
A new embedded instrument controller features a powerful touchscreen-controlled quarter-VGA graphical user interface.
A new embedded instrument controller features a powerful touchscreen-controlled quarter-VGA graphical user interface (GUI) The QVGA controller comes complete with a high-contrast 320 x 240pixel electroluminescent (EL) or LCD graphics display, a high-resolution analogue touchscreen, and a built-in GUI software toolkit
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mosaic Industries has released a graphical user interface software tool kit for its QVGA controller, a touchscreen-controlled embedded computer.
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The prime benefit of this new C-programmable three-in-one unit is that it provides original equipment manufacturers with a low cost solution and faster product development.
"A key trend in embedded design", said Paul Clifford, Mosaic's VP Engineering, "is the integration of highly intuitive touchscreen/graphics user interfaces with data acquisition, control and communications - all in one compact package.
Our new controller enables the designer to implement all instrument control functions in the context of an easy-to-use front panel interface", he noted.
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"Our goal is to endow even highly complex instruments with appliance-style ease of use.
Designers of medical, scientific or industrial products can use this compact, I/O-rich integrated device as the core hardware, software and user interface in their new instruments".
The built-in GUI toolkit provides an easy way to design and implement a complete graphical interface to monitor and control an instrument.
Onboard software responds to screen menus, buttons and controls by executing programmer-defined functions.
The GUI toolkit also provides functions for displaying system status graphically or via text-based messages.
Ideally suited for data acquisition and control, a real-time multitasking operating system provides a simple solution when several activities must operate simultaneously, each with time-critical precision.
Precoded I/O drivers facilitate data acquisition, pulsewidth modulation, motor control, frequency measurement, data analysis, analogue control, PID control, and communications.
The QVGA controller contains plenty of I/O for most applications: it commands eight 12bit analogue input channels, eight 8bit analogue inputs, eight 8bit D/A lines, 24 digital I/O, four high-current drivers, and two RS232/485 ports.
For projects requiring a unique combination of specialised I/O, the QVGA controller can host up to eight stackable I/O modules to add dozens more digital and high-resolution analogue signals, extra serial ports, and compact flash mass memory.
The QVGA controller is available now.
The price starts at $799 with substantial volume discounts.
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