4D Systems GOLDELOX & PICASO 4DGL Graphics Controllers
4D Systems GOLDELOX and PICASO Embedded 4DGL Graphics Controllers are designed to interface with OLED and LCD display panels. Powerful graphics, text, image, animation, and other features are built right inside these chips. These controllers offer simple plug-and-play interfaces to many 8-bit and 16-bit 80-Series color LCD and OLED displays. These chips are designed to work with minimal design effort, and all of the data and control signals are provided to interface directly to the display. The user can simply choose a display and interface it to the GOLDELOX or PICASO on the application board.
4D Systems GOLDELOX and PICASO Embedded 4DGL Graphics Controllers are powered by a highly optimized soft core virtual engine, Extensible Virtual Engine. EVE is a proprietary, high-performance virtual processor with a high-level language that is easy to learn and simple to understand, yet powerful enough to tackle many embedded graphics applications.
These controllers offer modest but comprehensive I/O features and can interface to SPI, I²C, serial, digital, analog, buttons, joystick, Dallas 1-wire devices, and more. All of the display built-in driver libraries implement and share the same high-level function interface. This allows the GUI application to be portable to different display controller types. 4D Systems' software development IDE, Workshop4 IDE PRO, provides an integrated software development platform.
Features
- Common
- OLED, LCD, and TFT display graphics user interface solutions
- Ideal as stand-alone embedded graphics processors or interfaces to any host controller as graphics co-processors
- Connect to any color display that supports 80-Series 8-bit or 16-bit wide CPU interface; all data and control signals are provided
- Built-in high-performance virtual processor engine (EVE) with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimized for 4DGL
- Display full-color images, animations, icons, and video clips
- Single 3.3V supply @12mA (GOLDELOX-GFX2) or @25mA (PICASO-GFX2) typical
- RoHS compliant
- PICASO
- Comprehensive set of built-in graphics and multimedia services
- 14Kb of flash memory for user code storage and 14Kb of SRAM for user variables
- 13x Digital I/O pins
- I²C interface (Master)
- D0...D15, RD, WR, RS, CS - dedicated display interface pins
- FAT16 file services
- 2x Asynchronous hardware serial ports with auto-baud feature
- SPI interface support for SDHC/SD memory card for multimedia storage and data logging purposes (micro-SD with up to 2GB and SDHC memory cards starting from 4GB and above)
- 4-wire resistive touch panel interface
- Audio support for wave files and complex sound generation with a dedicated 16-bit PWM audio output
- 8x 16-bit timers with 1msec resolution
- Available in a 64-pin TQFP 10mm x 10mm package
- GOLDELOX
- 2x GPIO ports supports
- Digital I/O
- A/D converter with 8/10 bit resolution
- Complex sound generation
- Dedicated RTTTL tune engine
- Multi-switch joystick
- Dallas 1-Wire
- 10Kb of flash memory for user code storage and 510 bytes (255 x 16-bit vars) of RAM for user variables
- 1x 32-bit free-running system timer with 1msec resolution
- 4x 16-bit user timers with 1msec resolution
- Asynchronous hardware serial port with auto-baud feature (300 to 256K baud)
- Hardware SPI port interface for micro-SD/micro-SDHC memory cards or Serial Flash memory chips for storing of icons, images, animations, etc.
- Comprehensive set of built-in high-level 4DGL graphics functions and algorithms that can draw lines, circles, text, and more
- 8x8 built-in system font and support for unlimited user-customizable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing with the aid of a freely provided Font-Tool
- Available in a tiny 6mm x 6mm 28-pin QFN
- 2x GPIO ports supports
Applications
- General purposes embedded graphics
- Elevator control systems
- Point of sale terminals
- Electronic gauges and meters
- Test and measurement and general-purpose instrumentation
- Industrial control and robotics
- Automotive system displays
- GPS navigation systems
- Medical applications
- Home appliances
- Smart home automation
- Security and access control systems
- Gaming equipment
GOLDELOX EVE
PICASO EVE
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Publicado: 2012-08-10
| Actualizado: 2022-03-11