Colour touchscreen is easy to apply: News from Rabbit Semiconductor

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Rabbit Semiconductor has developed a colour touchscreen application kit that gives integrators the ability to add a colour touch screen to their embedded systems. The colour touchscreen, with its numerous customisable features, enhances Rabbit-based systems by providing an intuitive user interface, modern display controls and increased functionality. The graphical user interface can be customised using standard desktop tools.

The application kit includes a Reach Technology SLCD controller board, a 5.7in TFT Hitachi colour display, Dynamic C development software and an RCM3720 Ethernet RabbitCore.

The application kit also includes a NEMA 4 enclosure that allows for rugged, waterproof installation.

Reach Technology's SLCD controller allows an LCD graphic display to be accessed as an intelligent serial device.

User-defined bitmaps via standard desktop tools provide a modern looking interface and include tabbed document interface pages and many different types of controls, such as radio buttons and check boxes.

The touch interface enables buttons to be defined on screen which return a serial string when pushed.

The SLCD controller is paired with an 5.7in TFT Hitachi colour touchscreen.

The RCM3720 is a Rabbit 3000-based microprocessor core module that is designed for Ethernet/Internet applications.

The RCM3720 features 512Kbyte Flash/256Kbyte SRAM, four serial ports and an extremely small platform footprint (75 x 30mm).

The RCM3720 comes with a prototyping board.

Included in this application kit is a NEMA 4 steel enclosure which holds the SLCD board, industrial 12-24V DC power supply and a 5.7in TFT Hitachi touchscreen.

The unit supports either RS232 or RS485 communications.

The enclosure is easy to wall mount and waterproof.

The application kit is priced at $999 with an introductory offer of $899.

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Colour touchscreen is easy to apply

A new application kit gives systems integrators an easy way to add a colour touch screen to their embedded systems.