Amulet Makes a Splash with New Color GUI Chip.Graphical OS Chip is Industry's Only All-in-One Solution for Creating and Driving Colorful, Visually Appealing Graphical User Interfaces CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Amulet Technologies, a leader in graphical user interface (GUI) electronics, today announced the introduction of its first color Graphical OS Chip([TM]) for LCDs and touch panels. Amulet developed the color chip - the first in a family of new Amulet chips - to enable OEMs to meet rising customer demand for sophisticated and eye-catching interactive graphical displays in such diverse products as home appliances, consumer electronics, medical equipment and automobiles. Amulet's new color chip includes all of the hardware and software needed to create and drive color-rich, compelling user interfaces. GUI creation is performed in dynamic HTML with simple drag-and-drop authoring tools, enabling designers to create and test the actual production-ready UI before handing it off to engineering for application integration. Amulet's advanced graphical operating system is royalty-free. Amulet's built-in microprocessor manages all GUI functions, freeing up the host micro to run the application more efficiently. The chip also features a power management controller for low power operation. It is an "all-in-one" GUI solution. Amulet's integrated LCD controller supports 24-bit color and alpha-blending on active and passive displays up to 12 inches. The processor supports USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0, TWI, UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) The electronic circuit that makes up the serial port. Also known as "universal serial asynchronous receiver transmitter" (USART), it converts parallel bytes from the CPU into serial bits for transmission, and vice and SPI interfaces, and can be directly connected to four- and five-wire resistive touch panels. Amulet offers the chip in two packages: 208-PQFP and 225-ball LFBGA LFBGA Low-Profile Fine-Pitch Ball-Grid Array LFBGA Low Profile Fine Pitch Bga LFBGA Leadless Fine Pitch Bga . The LFBGA features 39 dedicated general purpose input/output GPIO is an acronym for General Purpose Input/Output and is used in embedded electronics field. GPIO devices provide a set of IO ports which can be configured for either input or output compounded by the resemblance to GP1 and GP0. One special kind of GPIO is SGPIO. pins (GPIO GPIO General Purpose Input/Output GPIO General Purpose Input Output ), and the PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. can have up to 17 GPIO. Graphic formats supported include PNG, GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. and JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. , and GIF Animation. About Amulet Technologies Founded in 1998, Amulet is a recognized leader in graphical user interface (GUI) solutions. Amulet's unique Graphical Operating System in Silicon([TM]) enables manufacturers to cost-effectively implement a visually appealing GUI into their products to enhance the end user's experience. Amulet's display solutions - which range from display controller chips to fully integrated modules - simplify the product development cycle by separating GUI development from the application's development. This approach dramatically reduces time to market and overall system costs. For more information, visit www.amulettechnologies.com, or visit Amulet at ESC Boston, Booth 315, Oct. 28-29, for live demo! |
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