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Microchip intros new tools for 16, 32 bit UI

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Microchip Technology Inc, a provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced several new development tools that enable higher-performance, larger graphical user interfaces.

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The tools extend the graphics application space for Microchip's 16- and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers and includes an Epson-based graphics-controller board that can be driven by the Explorer 16 Development Board or PIC32 Starter Kit, as well as two VGA and WVGA touch-panel LCD daughter boards that enable up to 7" screens with over 16 million colors available, said a press release.

The Epson S1D13517 Graphics Controller PICtail Plus Daughter Board is based upon the Epson S1D13517 controller, featuring an 18-/24-bit Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) interface that is supported by 128 Megabits external SDRAM, and enables up to 24-bit-per-pixel color depth.

The low cost SDRAM  supports multiple-frame-buffering, alpha-blending and picture-in-picture capabilities.

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The board also includes 64 Megabits serial Flash memory for additional non-volatile storage, as well as connectors for an easy interface with different display boards, and Microchip's Explorer 16 Development Board, and PIC32 Starter Kit.

The Epson S1D13517 Graphics Controller board, and the 5.7" VGA and 7" WVGA boards, along with Microchip's free graphics library, provide the key building blocks for bringing vivid, photo-quality user interfaces to market, the release added.

"Customers are demanding an enhanced graphical user-interface experience," said Sumit Mitra, vice president of Microchip's High-Performance Microcontroller Division.

He added that their new boards help designers to meet these demands with QVGA or WQVGA solutions, and their software makes development easy. With the addition of the Epson graphics controller and these new, larger displays, designers can take their products to the next level, with more advanced and larger 24 bpp-color user interfaces.

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