Description

High-performance Renesas RA8D2 MCU

If your application demands a fast, fluid and visually rich GUI combined with serious processing power for control, communication and data handling, all on a single board, the Renesas RA8D2 platform is an ideal choice.

At the heart of our display board, the RA8D2 microcontroller combines an Arm Cortex-M85 core running at up to 1 GHz with Helium vector extensions and an Arm Cortex-M33 core running at up to 250 MHz. This dual-core architecture lets you separate demanding GUI rendering from real-time control tasks, delivering high performance and deterministic, low-latency operation in one device designed for advanced Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).

Riverdi’s displays powered by the RA8D2 feature an integrated graphics LCD controller and a 2D drawing engine that offloads graphics operations from the CPU. External SDRAM and Flash memory on the board provide the frame buffer and storage space required for demanding embedded visualization applications. Because graphics, processing and connectivity are integrated in a single MCU, the platform eliminates the need for a separate graphics processing board, simplifying system design and reducing time to market. The RA8D2 is fully supported by Renesas’ Flexible Software Package (FSP) and development tools.

High brightness, IPS TFT

Typical surface luminance for a high brightness, IPS TFT displays is 800 up to 1000 cd/m² which means it is very bright even outdoors. The full viewing angles allow the user to interact with the display in a natural and intuitive way from every side. Please see the datasheet for more features.

Industrial Touch Screen

Reacts to the slightest touch

The PCAP (Projected Capacity touch panel) is classified as ‘industrial’ (as opposed to ‘consumer’) when it is able to operate correctly in more demanding, harsh conditions (i.e. disturbing electromagnetic fields around causing interferences with panel controller, water droplets present in the surrounding area also on panel glass), and react properly when touched by hands in gloves. It can be tuned at the factory, detect touch through thicker glass layers than consumer panels (6mm thick glass layer was tested with success in the Riverdi lab) and it uses an industrial grade chip controller. Such controllers have industrial manufacturer’s guidelines implemented and are guaranteed to be manufactured typically from 10 to 15 years without any changes.

Main features:

• ILITEK Touch IC- ILI2511, with 10 years guaranteed availability
• USB/I²C interface/Optional UART
• Supports cover glass thickness up to 15mm
• Supports double gloves operation – not only nitrile –even double thicker gloves
• Working with water on the surface
• Multi-touch, up to 5 fingers
• Great EMC, RS (radiated susceptibility) and CS (conductive susceptibility) performance
• Touch performance could be easily tuned to fit specific needs

For more information please see this page.

Optical / Air Bonding

Enhancing the optical performance of your display

Optical bonding is a process of affixing the touch panel (or just the protective glass) to the display using a liquid adhesive, gel or dry (film). In general, this process improves the parameters of the module – the optical performance, as well as durability.

The air-gap is the reason for the phenomena of reflection of sunlight. So, when the display is off, the Visual Area (V.A) is never black – it is gray.

When removing the air gaps, we reduce the number of internal reflecting surfaces, which increase of optical performance. This phenomenon improves readability, by reducing the reflection and correct contrast.

Customized displays

You can customize displays in many different ways.

• Change the color, shape, and size of the cover glass
• Have your logo printed on the cover glass (or any other graphics you might need)
• Add a different interface
• Enhance the brightness of the screen
• Change the thickness of the cover lens for the CTP
• Choose a different viewing angle of the display
• Change the pinout
• Request different gasket assembly

As you can see the possibilities are endless. All you need to do is choose.

We will help you to get the perfect tailor-made product.