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Energy Micro offers high-end touch graphics solution with TouchGFX
Energy Micro offers high-end touch graphics solution for energy effi cient MCU applications with TouchGFX. Mjolner GUI framework enables a smartphone user experience on the low-energy ARM Cortex-M3 Gecko microcontroller platform. Energy Micro, the energy
friendly microcontroller and radio company, and Mjolner Informatics has partnered to demonstrate a smartphone-like graphical user interface running on its EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller. This demonstration, developed using Mjolner’s TouchGFX technology and featuring full touch control, can be seen on Energy Micro’s booth at Embedded World later this month. Mjolner will also present a paper in one of the conference sessions at this event to explain more about the features and benefi ts of TouchGFX for ARM Cortex-M3. The control of products designed
for markets such as home automation, medical and healthcare along with
many other industrial applications often depends on a relatively low- cost microcontroller (MCU) platform with limited hardware resources. Increasingly these designs are
Drive TFT peripheral provides unique features that reduce the Cortex-M3 load to close to 0% while running high frame rates on screens up to 3.5 inches. Jørgen Mygind, from Mjolner Informatics, said, “Our TouchGFX framework minimizes the MCU load and memory footprint. The Giant Gecko microcontroller’s unique TFT capabilities such as hardware alpha blending, in addition to the low-energy performance these MCUs are renowned for, enables us to provide smart graphics on ultra- low power platforms.”
for handheld, wearable or similar battery-powered devices that also demand a power-saving, low-energy solution. This is all at odds with the type of graphical user interface (GUI) we’ve become familiar with from our smartphones, e-readers and tablets, which normally requires a powerful and expensive high-end MCU based around a processor core such as the ARM9. Mjolner’s TouchGFX changes all that and provides a framework for developing sophisticated graphics with touch controls that can operate on MCUs such as Energy Micro’s EFM32 Giant Gecko. An on-chip Direct
Gang Tester provides signifi cant increase in throughput
GOEPEL electronic introduces SFX-TAP16/G-RM, a new version of its TAP Transceiver for the test and programming of up to 16 electronic assemblies in parallel. The compact solution with integrated system power supply helps to increase the throughput for UUT (unit under test) with a single TAP (test access port) by factor 16, which results in signifi cantly improved production effi ciency and reduced investment costs. Thanks to the TAP interfaces’ programmability (voltage, delay, protocol, etc.) and the TAP-to-UUT assignments’ individual confi gurability, the system can be fl exibly customized to fi t nearly any environment and application. “Our OEM, ODM, and EMS customers show constantly
growing interest in solutions for high-speed programming of Flash through processor debug interface or with an FPGA-embedded programmer in order to increase throughput. This new addition to our SCANFLEX hardware
February 28th 2013 Andreas Koller, VP of Worldwide
Sales at Energy Micro said, “We’ve all come to value simple and intuitive touch controls but previously these required MCU performance that could not be justifi ed for most industrial applications. Now with TouchGFX we’ve shown what can be done using our EFM32 Cortex-M3 MCU, enabling leading-edge product designs that continue to provide our customers with low-cost, low-energy solutions.” The TouchGFX GUI framework is
available now via
http://www.touchgfx.com
portfolio additionally ensures the utilization of dynamic tests based on processor emulation in production lines or stress tests in climatic chambers“, says Thomas Wenzel, Managing Director of GOEPEL electronic’s Boundary Scan Division. “The detection of latent defects in particular in HASS/HALT procedures becomes more and more important for many test and production scenarios. Hence, our SFX-TAP16-G-RM is a logical consequence in providing new technologies for maximum fault coverage.” About SFX-TAP16/G-RM: The SFX-TAP16/G-RM, available as rack mount version
in 19’’ technology (1U), provides 16 parallel TAPs. Its architecture supports all modern Embedded System Access (ESA) technologies, including boundary scan, processor emulation, and chip-embedded instrumentation, enabling the basic paradigm change for test and programming methods without mechanical probe access (non-intrusive). This new SCANFLEX module was developed specifi cally for Gang applications, whereby various test and programming strategies can be freely combined.
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