Products Displays High brightness and
low power reliability High-reliability, high brightness dis- plays from Litemax are now available in the UK from Display Solutions. These use new technology to
produce a range of LED backlit LCD screens. Features include high bright- ness coupled with low power needs, resulting in displays that run cooler with minimal stress but maximum reliability, explains the company. The displays provide low power consumption; ultimate flexibility on size, shape and configuration from letter box to panel walls; touch screen options; and 1600 nit Very High Brightness capability. Martin Whitehead at the company
said: “Litemax offers a thin, very adaptable product that conquers one of the biggest problems associated with high brightness – that of heat production.”
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www.displaysolutions.co.uk
Chipsets for powering touchscreens
Chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15” are being shipped in production quantities by Atmel. The maXTouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets will power a number of devices including tablet PCs, smartbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs), Netbooks, PC notebooks and a range of industrial applications.
These new chipsets offer multi-touch with unlimited touch capability and have low power consumption, fast response time and a high signal-to-noise ratio to detect the most sensitive touches with a finger nail, stylus and a user with gloves on.
They also reject unintended touches including grip and palm rejection to enable an easy-to-use, intuitive and seamless touch experience for the user. Rhoda Alexander, director monitor research, IHS iSuppli, said: “The next generation of touch tablets will incorporate significantly faster response times, greater touch accuracy, and the ability to differentiate between intentional and unin- tentional touches. Users will be able to move beyond the current two-touch approach to applica- tions incorporating ten touches or more.” Atmel
www.amtel.com
Enter 683 22 FEBRUARY 2011 Instrumentation TFT displays with integrated touch technology
New from Anders Electronics are ‘Smart Touch Modules’, a range of small to medium-sized TFT display platforms, pre-integrated with touch screen, driving electronics and backlight drivers, ready to be connected via a standard serial port to the device host processor with minimal integration overhead. These low cost modules are available in nine different screen sizes and resolutions from 3.5” QVGA to 10.4” XGA incorporating both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. They are OS agnostic, working with any host operating system, or even without a host OS. Additional features include a real time clock, battery, buzzer and a USB port for updating the graphics library. A complementary
UI software tool is available to enable rapid and simple implementation of a GUI which is then stored within the on-board flash memory. According to the company, the modules are suited to products with low to medium production volumes (500-5000 pieces), enabling device manufacturers to bring their next generation products to market quickly and cost-effectively. It is also suitable for developers working with TFT’s and touchscreens for the first time as well as for experienced developers. Anders Electronics
T: 020 7388 7171
www.anders-electronics.com
Low cost programmable TFT panels The PanelPilot series of low cost
programmable TFT panel meters from Lascar Electronics is now available from RS Components (RS). The series represents the evolution of digital panel meters from simple LED displays, via LCD, to fully software config- urable touchscreen TFT displays, says the company.
The series offers designers in machine building and electronic design companies the ability to configure the panel meter to dis- play the reading in a format and style that matches their applica- tion and product design. It adds the benefits of visual impact, innovation and flexibil- ity to their design and the oppor- tunity to be ‘faster-to-market’,
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without adding complexity. The meter employs open-bus architecture, giving designers the option to directly interface via an I2C or SPI bus.
The PanelPilot series is avail- able in both 2.4” and 2.8” screen sizes. RS Components T: 01536 209174
http://rswww.com
A powerful HMI platform
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Products 4 Automation (P4A) is to distribute the Panasonic GN series of flat panel PCs running P4A’s Movicon CE software, a powerful HMI platform currently available for Windows CE. The combined package is com- pact and capable of satisfying user needs in terms of visualisa- tion and control, without any compromises, says the company. The package offers full
Next generation intelligent LCD developed A 3” ‘next generation intelligent LCD’ (iLCD) has been launched by demmel products. By adding a low-cost model to the existing
product portfolio of intelligent displays, even price-sensitive applications and low quantity production runs can now be equipped with a colour display, explains the company. Development costs are almost completely eliminated and time-to- market is shortened significantly by using iLCDs. All iLCD panels can store any desired Windows font, static and animated graphics, text messages and macros in the controller’s flash memory. Colour iLCD panels are available from 2.8” (240 x 320 pixel) to 10.2” (1024 x 600 pixel) and every model comes with the same set of commands and
electrical connections. The powerful high-level commands are said to be easy to learn. If necessary, iLCDs of different sizes can easily be swapped without having to modify either the hardware or software of the controlling application. demmel products
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Windows support and connec- tivity, and includes functionality such as trending, alarming, textural reports, two web clients, access to all the Movicon PLC drivers as well as being network- able up to Movicon 11 SCADA. The HN series is equipped with 7” and 15” TFT screens with a full 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. Products4Automation T: 0845 077 3858
www.products4automation.com
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