Dec 9 2009
Amulet Technologies, a recognized leader in graphic user interface (GUI) solutions, announced today their new universal TFT/OLED display driver board, GEMexpress™. It is the fastest, most inexpensive production solution for adding a GUI to an embedded product. GEMexpress™ can interface to virtually any display, allowing for greater design flexibility and a shorter time to market.
GEMexpress™ is highly integrated (a six-layer PCBA) measuring 1.5”x3.0” and is composed of Amulet’s GEM Graphical OS Chip™ for color displays and those parts required to support this chip. Amulet’s chip includes the LCD controller, touch panel decoder, ARM7 processor and most important, a Graphical Operating System in Silicon™, which manages the entire user interface (off-loading this burden from the host processor). GEMexpress™ also includes a 32 megabit serial flash for storing GUI pages, 64 megabit SDRAM (frame buffer), an integrated 4 or 5 wire touch panel decoder, a dedicated crystal and necessary power management devices. The GUI is easy to program and is the only product on the market programmed with an HTML editor or GEMstudio™, Amulet’s new GUI design tool.
“GEMexpress™ is a whole new hardware approach to graphic user interface integration,” stated Jim Todd, Amulet’s Sales Director. “There is much less engineering work when integrating a GUI using the GEMexpress™ board compared to the traditional approach of designing in an LCD controller chip, thus designers save a lot of time and cut costs. Designers can be in production as fast as choosing a display and integrating it with GEMexpress™. No messing with costly board designs.”
The board targets small to medium size OEMs integrating GUIs to any embedded product. GEMexpress™ display driver boards are available now for $110 USD through Amulet franchised distributors.