HMIs offer bright displays for industrial applications

Mouser Electronics is offering MikroElektronika's mikromedia HMI smart displays.

Developed with Riverdi displays and FTDI Chip's graphic controllers, these human-machine interface (HMI) boards are a spin-off from the original feature-rich mikromedia multimedia development board. Optimised for scale, and removing all excessive circuitry from the original mikromedia to lower cost, these new HMI products retain only the essential components that simplify their integration into a final product line consisting of 18 standalone smart displays.

The products range from 3.5in to 7in, offer multiple screen options (capacitive or resistive touchscreen, or bright displays with no touchscreen layer), and come in pixel resolutions up to 800×480.

The smart displays are powered by an FTDI Chip FT900Q – a 32bit embedded microcontroller based on a proprietary RISC architecture and engineered for high-speed, interface-bridging tasks.

The 100MHz (3.1DMIPS/MHz) FT900Q microcontroller offers interconnect capabilities with fast data rates and features 256KBytes of flash memory and a parallel camera input. The FT90x hardware is fully compatible with mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal compiler software, as well as the Visual TFT graphic user interface (GUI) design software, all of which are available from Mouser.

Driving the mikromedia HMI displays are FTDI Chip’s FT81x embedded video engine (EVE) devices, a series of easy-to-use graphic controllers targeted at embedded applications to generate high-quality HMIs.

Combining a high-brightness colour display on the front with a powerful FT900Q 32bit microcontroller with additional essential circuitry on the back, the HMI smart displays are suitable for use as standalone OEM parts to power a broad array of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications.