Intelligent TFT display solution for Arduino that is easy to program

FTDI Chip CleO Touch-Enabled Display Shield, available from Mouser, is an intelligent TFT display solution for Arduino that is easy to program and allows the construction of HMIs with much higher performance than conventional Arduino display shields. The device includes an HVGA resolution, 3.5-inch 320x480 pixel TFT LCD panel display with resistive touch and PWM audio output with built-in speaker amplifier for better audio quality. The device supports both portrait and landscape modes and can be easily programmed to give professional looking HMI/GUIs with no prior knowledge of complex graphics programming or mathematics. It is fully Arduino UNO compatible. The company’s high resolution EVE graphic controller executes the HMI operation while one of their 3.1 DMIPs FT903 microcontrollers addresses all additional processing tasks. The device provides incredibly smooth animation of graphical content, even at 60fps. It also features anti-aliased graphics capabilities that render images in finer detail, eliminating the presence of jagged edges. The device offers a more powerful and optimised solution when combined with their NerO board. The board is an open source hardware, drop-in replacement for the Arduino UNO, and fully Arduino compatible with shields and the Arduino IDE. FTDI Chip offers an Arduino-compatible CleO library that makes it a snap to add CleO35 to the Arduino UNO or, for best performance, the the company’s NerO Board.