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Displays and remote terminal units
News Release from: Mosaic Industries | Subject: QVGA Controller
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2003
Controller has touch-screen graphical
interface
Mosaic Industries has introduced a new embedded instrument controller featuring a powerful touch-screen-controlled 1/4VGA graphical user interface (GUI)
The QVGA Controller comes complete with a high-contrast 320x240 pixel electro-luminescent (EL) or LCD graphics display, a high-resolution analogue touch-screen, and a built-in GUI software toolkit 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
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 4 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"A key trend in embedded design", said Paul Clifford, Mosaic VP for Engineering, "is the integration of highly intuitive touch-screen/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.
"Our goal is to endow even highly complex instruments with appliance-style ease of use.
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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.
On-board 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.
Pre-coded I/O drivers facilitate data acquisition, pulse width 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 12-bit analogue input channels, eight 8-bit analogue inputs, eight 8-bit D/A lines, 24 digital I/O, 4 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 USD799 with substantial volume discounts.
Mosaic Industries has been trading since 1985, and provides off-the shelf customised hardware solutions, from analysis to product design, for numerous applications such as industrial control, automation of industrial processes, product development and/or product upgrades, data acquisition, and scientific instruments.
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