A complete embedded UI costs less than £100

17th March 2015

andersDX

Nat Bowers

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Integrating the latest 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor from Texas Instruments, andersDX has created an entry-level DX series embedded display platform priced at under £100. The DX1a features a pre-integrated TFT touch screen and a pre-loaded Linux, Android or Windows CE OS. With the addition of the application software, it becomes a fully working prototype system.

The DX1a is an embedded single-touch display platform which integrates TFT touch display with an ARM SBC to provide a ready to go prototyping platform that can also form the basis of the production system. It is offered with a 5.7” resistive touch screen and is currently available with Embedded Linux (Debian) or Android Jelly Bean as standard. A Windows Embedded Compact 7 version is due shortly, along with an alternative 4.3” WQVGA projected capacitive touch screen. The package includes all of the required drivers and is fully pre-integrated and debugged, providing a stable development platform for the system designer.

Comprehensive interface options are delivered as standard, including four USB ports, Ethernet, Bluetooth, WiFi, two serial ports, up to 24 lines of GPI/O, sound IO, a CAN bus interface and four general purpose ADC sockets.

Like other DX platforms, the DX1a hardware is highly flexible, and can be tailored to suit individual applications in terms of OS, display size, cabling, screen glass, backlighting, processor speed and interfaces. The DX can essentially be dropped into a product with negligible integration effort. Developers can, if they wish, just add a suitable enclosure and load their application software to deliver a finished product.

Rhett Evans, Embedded Sales Manager, Anders Electronics, commented: “andersDX is leveraging process shrinks to deliver a new generation of our entry level embedded display platform, offering more performance and more features at a lower cost than ever before. Booting the DX is no harder than booting a new desktop PC and developers just need to load their application to create a prototype platform for their design that can be used to prove a concept and deliver a powerful working demonstration to generate management buy-in. Having finalised the design, the same platform can be customised to create the production system with a minimum of further development.”

The module is available as a development kit, with all required cables and a power supply, or as an assembled product. For orders of over 100 units, the number of interfaces can be reduced in order to reduce the cost of the final product. andersDX will customise the system further including changing the display by negotiation.