Create your own custom-built LCD display with GPEG’s unique online tool.
The free Kickstart programme has been developed as an easy to use sketch tool that enables design engineers and commercial teams to instantly visualise how the display will look.
Using a simple ‘drag and drop’ option, icons can be placed as and where you want them to appear. Choose from GPEG’s growing library of common fonts and images or upload your own graphics to tailor the display to your personal specifications.
Once the initial design is complete the display, which is controlled by a KS480 smart driver, can be animated to create flashing and variable text, a real-time clock and other front panel graphics.
The intelligent driver contains a set of built-in commands that can reduce software development time and costs and ultimately the time taken to bring a product to market. It also uses five times less power than a traditional ‘dumb’ chip.
GPEG is the first UK company to create such driver chips. CEO Nick How
said: “The option of a customised screen has been limited to high volume designs until now. Kickstart’s low cost of development enables anyone to deploy a unique customised display in almost any volume.”
Fully featured development kits enable design engineers to explore all the intelligent functions and advantages that the KS480 driver delivers, saving additional costs and software development time while custom hardware is created.
Uniquely, the development kit can be connected to both a free PC development tool and an online control application that allows you to see and adapt how the display works even if you have no previous programming skills or knowledge. Through the use of these simple tools a full set of program code is created on screen to run the display, enabling engineers to simply copy and paste the code into their projects.
Accessible for even small, one-off projects, GPEG can produce 10 samples for a fixed £800 payment.
To find out more about the unique Kickstart design tool and how it could transform your display project contact GPEG on:
Email: sales@gpegint.com
T: +44 (0) 8704 931433
Hyperlink – www.gpegint.com
