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Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe | Subject: MB86R01 Jade
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 February 2008

Graphics controller sports automotive
display

Instrument panel has one large central mechanical gauge with all the other instruments rendered graphically by Jade and projected onto the LCD.

Fujitsu's MB86R01 graphics controller, codenamed Jade, plays a crucial role in enabling a state-of-the-art instrument panel in the futuristic Artega GT sports car Artega is not only the name of the car but also of the company, set up by Klaus Dieter Frers, CEO of Paragon

The idea was to design a sports car for the future that is able to take advantage of the latest technologies without any of the brand expectations and history that can restrict well-known and established manufacturers.

The entire car is crammed with technological advances, with a reconfigurable LCD instrument panel using FME's Jade graphics controller.

The instrument panel consists of a high-resolution, illuminated 10.2in 800 x 480 pixel colour display and a digitally controlled dual-pointer analogue instrument with a high-quality metal clock face acquired from the luxury watch segment.