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Bridgetek has announced a fourth generation of its minimal resource graphics engine EVE (embedded video engine). Suitable for use with 1Mpixel displays, the products include 1Mbyte of embedded graphics RAM and support resolutions including 1,920×480, 1,440×540, 1,280×800, 1,024×600, 800×600, 800×480 and 480×272. “The ability to adjust both the horizontal and vertical sync timing means that a much wider array of ...

Microchip has a GUI development toolkit for 32bit SAMA5 and SAM9 series of Arm Cortex-A5 and ARM926EJ-S MPUs running Linux Called Ensemble Graphics Toolkit, it is a no-cost and royalty-fre open-source C++ suite based on the permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license. It works with the company’s chips, system-in-package and system-on-module products. “By taking advantage of underlying hardware acceleration, including graphics controllers ...

Congatec has announced a COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I Series processors for use across -40°C to +85°C. Called conga-TR4, it is available with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening for increased reliability. “The most demanding graphics and compute workloads benefit from the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight GPU of AMD’s Zen microarchitecture in ...

STMicroelectronics is offering free graphical interface software for a sub-set of its Arm Cortex-based STM32 microcontrollers – largely those based on Cortex-M4 and M7. TouchGFX, as it is called, “is ready to use with STM32 microcontrollers and includes a C++ framework that enables the user-interface code to occupy as little as 10kbyte SRAM and 20kbyte flash memory,” said the firm. ...

Image compression technology in the PowerVR PVRIC4 IP block enables random access, visually lossless image compression for bandwidth and memory savings for DTVs, smartphones and tablets, says Imagination Technologies. Claimed to halve memory bandwidth and footprint, the IP block targets SoC development for consumer applications to meet the needs of the higher resolution demanded by 4K and 8K displays, as ...

Graphs can be easy or difficult to understand, or somewhere in-between. To give computers some idea where on the scale their output might be, and how to improve it if need be, researchers at Columbia University and Tufts University have invented a technique called ‘pixel approximate entropy’. “This is a brand new approach to working with line charts with many ...

At Engineering Design Show 2018, we caught up with Jonathan Abbott at Lascar Electronics

Further extending its embedded video engine (EVE) product offering, Bridgetek has introduced the BT815/6 series of graphic controller ICs for next generation HMI development. Support for the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) algorithm means that image quality can be significantly enhanced without needing greater bandwidth to be allocated as the compression algorithm allows for smaller compressed files. Click here to ...

Push buttons need never be boring again, now NKK has introduced one with a built-in colour video and graphics display. The display is OLED, 96×64, shows 16-bit colour (65,536 colours), and has a 50,000hour lifetime. Down in the engine room, dust-proof gold-plated twin contacts are expected to last up to 1,000,000 cycles. The firm has done video switches before, but ...

Glasgow fabless chip firm FTDI has revealed a video controller for LCDs that allows an 8bit microcontroller to produce an animated user interface. Called the FTDI800 and branded EVE (embedded...