Let’s be realistic – how many months (or years) have you spent on adding just a simple human machine interface (HMI) to your product? How much of the original specification has changed since you started – not by choice, but because of schedule and capability limitations? Most importantly, how much more time and budget do you need to allocate to get to market? Candid observations from experienced OEMS will tell you that the only difficult part about choosing a Stellaris® Intelligent Display Module (MDL-IDM) from Luminary Micro is deciding to scratch all the hard work and engineering resources sunk into that still-not-working user interface solution that your team has attempted to design from scratch. Luminary Micro makes it surprisingly easy to bring a full-featured HMI to market in record time.

Where’s the Beep?

When you started this “Let’s Add HMI” quest, you likely specified a number of attractive features for a sassy user interface, including color, decent text, graphical buttons and sliders, touch screen capability, sound, and state-of-the-art industrial connectivity . These are significant advantages to using a Stellaris Intelligent Display Module: you get all these features, and with your compiler tools for the ARM Cortex-M3 core, customizing is a breeze. Moreover, Luminary Micro now offers four different versions of the Stellaris Intelligent Display Module, featuring various combinations of touch screen sizes, screen orientation, and connectivity (including Ethernet and USB) – each designed, created, and launched based on broad feedback from customers like you.

Need Graphics? Just “call” StellarisWare™…

Each Stellaris Intelligent Display Module is offered with a bountiful board support package that provides software drivers for the touch screen and, where applicable, the SD Card interface, the relay output, the sound capability, in-system programming support, and the analog inputs. However, the real software advantage of Stellaris Intelligent Display Modules is shown by the StellarisWare Graphics, USB, and Peripheral Driver Libraries. Written almost entirely in efficient C, the freely licensed and royalty-free StellarisWare Graphics Library supports basic graphical primitives, like lines, circles, rectangles, and text rendering, and also provides more complex widgets, like push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, text or image canvas elements. The library also features special utilities that allow you to render personal fonts, convert image files, and add 3-D buttons to your application. The StellarisWare USB Library provides several programming interfaces, ranging from the thinnest layer which merely abstracts the underlying USB controller hardware, to high level interfaces offering simple APIs supporting specific devices. The StellarisWare Peripheral Driver Library is a royalty-free set of functions for controlling the peripherals found on the module. Vastly superior to a GUI peripheral configuration tool, the StellarisWare Peripheral Driver Library performs both peripheral initialization and peripheral control functions with a choice of polled or interrupt-driven peripheral support. The StellarisWare Library suite now includes programming support for the IEC 60730 standard, especially useful for manufacturers of household appliances, including washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, and cookers/stoves.

Still desire to Do-It-Yourself? Start where we left off…

Offered both as a volume production module and a complete, open-tooled reference design, Stellaris Intelligent Display Modules provide OEMs with the freedom to choose how to go to production: (1) through volume procurement and integration of the cost-effective IDM modules or (2) by using the complete, open-tooled hardware and software design files from a Stellaris Intelligent Display Module to jump-start a custom-tailored Stellaris-based design.

Remember, the hard part is deciding

Just think: With Luminary Micro and cost-effective Stellaris Intelligent Display Modules, adding a user interface to your design is easily within reach, on time and within budget. Luminary Micro makes it easy; off-the-shelf in a cost effective module, or as a complete, open-tooled design for your personal customization. With Luminary Micro’s royalty-free StellarisWare Graphics, USB, and Peripheral Driver Libraries, all you have to do is choose the path of least resistance.

Stellaris® Intelligent Display Module with PoE (MDL-IDM)

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The Stellaris® Intelligent Display Module offers a complete graphical touch-screen user interface solution for industrial applications. Featuring Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), and a a 2.8-inch QVGA Touch Panel the MDL-IDM offers a simple method to produce intelligent terminals that can be simultaneously powered and network-connected by a single CAT5 Ethernet cable.

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Stellaris® Intelligent Display Modules offers a complete graphical touch-screen user interface solution for industrial applications. The MDL-IDM28 features a 2.8-inch QVGA Touch Panel and full 10/100 Ethernet connectivity, which can serve as a standard system network connection for monitoring and control and as a reprogramming interface to update module firmware.

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