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I did run into a strange issue that I have been unable to solve. After programming the board, it will not start working without a power down and power back up. Even pressing the reset button on the blue pill will not make it run. I don"t know if this is just a problem with my board. It may have something to do with the LCD being connected to the I/O pins.

I tried powering the board and LCD from an external 5 volt power supply instead of the USB connector. That did not make a difference. I also put a 5 second delay in the startup code as a test. I kept the 5V off of the LCD board. When the blue pill got to the 5 second delay I then applied power to the LCD board. But the blue pill board did not continue to run. The only thing that makes it run is the power up and power down sequence. After that the board will restart and run when I press the reset button.

I still haven"t worked with any graphical software yet. I wanted to figure out how to manually talk to the LCD before proceeding. The less unknowns there are the easier it is to trouble shoot when problems occur.

Visual TFT is a powerful serial port screen development and debugging software independently developed by our company, which is embedded with the first domestic exclusive "virtual serial port screen". After the user creates a new project, import the designed artwork picture, and then configure the buttons and other controls in each screen. After the simulation is correct, finally download the entire project to the serial screen.

Firstly, use the VisualTFT software of the matching host computer to perform interface layout and control configuration of the pre-designed artwork pictures, and then run the "virtual serial screen" for simulation. Finally, you can use USB/SD/UART/U disk/WIFI (depending on different Model hardware configuration) Download the entire project to the serial port screen internal memory. The PC software will assign a unique ID number to each screen, picture and control in the project.

"Virtual serial screen" is the first domestic exclusive serial screen emulator developed by Guangzhou Dacai Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (www.gz-dc.com). After the user installs the VisualTFT software of the upper computer, it can be run and used. The simulation result of the virtual serial port screen is exactly the same as the real serial port screen. Therefore, there is no need to purchase hardware during the preliminary evaluation of R&D. You can communicate with each other through the RS232 serial port of your own microcontroller. The button control information will be uploaded immediately after the mouse clicks on the button. Once the developer passes the debugging, the real hardware does not need to be debugged.

In this Arduino touch screen tutorial we will learn how to use TFT LCD Touch Screen with Arduino. You can watch the following video or read the written tutorial below.

The third example is a game. Actually it’s a replica of the popular Flappy Bird game for smartphones. We can play the game using the push button or even using the touch screen itself.

As an example I am using a 3.2” TFT Touch Screen in a combination with a TFT LCD Arduino Mega Shield. We need a shield because the TFT Touch screen works at 3.3V and the Arduino Mega outputs are 5 V. For the first example I have the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, then for the second example an RGB LED with three resistors and a push button for the game example. Also I had to make a custom made pin header like this, by soldering pin headers and bend on of them so I could insert them in between the Arduino Board and the TFT Shield.

Here’s the circuit schematic. We will use the GND pin, the digital pins from 8 to 13, as well as the pin number 14. As the 5V pins are already used by the TFT Screen I will use the pin number 13 as VCC, by setting it right away high in the setup section of code.

I will use the UTFT and URTouch libraries made by Henning Karlsen. Here I would like to say thanks to him for the incredible work he has done. The libraries enable really easy use of the TFT Screens, and they work with many different TFT screens sizes, shields and controllers. You can download these libraries from his website, RinkyDinkElectronics.com and also find a lot of demo examples and detailed documentation of how to use them.

After we include the libraries we need to create UTFT and URTouch objects. The parameters of these objects depends on the model of the TFT Screen and Shield and these details can be also found in the documentation of the libraries.

So now I will explain how we can make the home screen of the program. With the setBackColor() function we need to set the background color of the text, black one in our case. Then we need to set the color to white, set the big font and using the print() function, we will print the string “Arduino TFT Tutorial” at the center of the screen and 10 pixels  down the Y – Axis of the screen. Next we will set the color to red and draw the red line below the text. After that we need to set the color back to white, and print the two other strings, “by HowToMechatronics.com” using the small font and “Select Example” using the big font.

Next is the distance sensor button. First we need to set the color and then using the fillRoundRect() function we will draw the rounded rectangle. Then we will set the color back to white and using the drawRoundRect() function we will draw another rounded rectangle on top of the previous one, but this one will be without a fill so the overall appearance of the button looks like it has a frame. On top of the button we will print the text using the big font and the same background color as the fill of the button. The same procedure goes for the two other buttons.

Now we need to make the buttons functional so that when we press them they would send us to the appropriate example. In the setup section we set the character ‘0’ to the currentPage variable, which will indicate that we are at the home screen. So if that’s true, and if we press on the screen this if statement would become true and using these lines here we will get the X and Y coordinates where the screen has been pressed. If that’s the area that covers the first button we will call the drawDistanceSensor() custom function which will activate the distance sensor example. Also we will set the character ‘1’ to the variable currentPage which will indicate that we are at the first example. The drawFrame() custom function is used for highlighting the button when it’s pressed. The same procedure goes for the two other buttons.

Here’s that function which uses the ultrasonic sensor to calculate the distance and print the values with SevenSegNum font in green color, either in centimeters or inches. If you need more details how the ultrasonic sensor works you can check my particular tutorialfor that. Back in the loop section we can see what happens when we press the select unit buttons as well as the back button.

Levetop Semiconductor announced an new LQFP-100pin TFT display controller - LT268D, which support 8/16-bit parallel or SPI interface. It embedded an ARM M4 core with high capacity Flash and SRAM, and offers multiple sets of Uart interfaces that can be connected to such as blue tooth modules, WiFi modules, USB interfaces, SD cards, analog input AIN, PWM, and INT interrupts. The LT268D internal main frequency up to 150MHz, provides the QSPI Flash interface, can quickly read the images stored in the external SPI Flash, animation, word library and other information, with PC computer software, simulation software, directly into the computer product UI display interface development. Its support for serial panel instructions including picture display, GIF animation display, circular picture display, progress bar display, text string display, QR code generation, audio playback, and combined with the effects of touch functions and other instructions. LT268D can be used in a variety of small appliances, smart home appliances, handheld control equipment, industrial control boards, electronic devices, medical equipment, small testing equipment, small electric motorcycle, personal medical beauty, small testing equipment, charging equipment, water and electricity meters, smart speakers with screens and other products.

Levetop Semiconductor announced a TFT display controller LT268C that drives 8 or 16-bit parallel, and SPI serial port. It embedded an ARM M4 core with high capacity Flash and SRAM, and offers multiple sets of Uart interfaces that can be connected to such as blue tooth modules, WiFi modules, USB interfaces, SD cards, analog input AIN, PWM, and INT interrupts. The LT268C internal main frequency up to 150MHz, provides the QSPI Flash interface, can quickly read the images stored in the external SPI Flash, animation, word library and other information, with PC computer software, simulation software, directly into the computer product UI display interface development. Its support for serial screen instructions including picture display, GIF animation display, circular picture display, progress bar display, text string display, QR code generation, audio playback, and combined with the effects of touch functions and other instructions. LT268C can be used in a variety of small appliances, smart home appliances, handheld control equipment, industrial control boards, electronic devices, medical equipment, small testing equipment, small electric motorcycle, personal medical beauty, small testing equipment, charging equipment, water and electricity meters, smart speakers with screens and other products.

Levetop Semiconductor announced an new controller - LT7689 that combines the Cortex-M4 MCU and the 2D TFT graphics display accelerator. It has high-capacity flash and SRAM, provides multi-group SCI interface s which can be connected to such as as Bluetooth modules, WiFi modules, etc. Also provided secondary development to meet more TFT panel applications. The LT7689 supports serial panel instructions include more than 70 commands such as picture display, GIF animation display, loop chart display, power-on image display, progress bar display, text string display, QR code generation, audio playback, and combined with touch panel to achieve touch function. With the serial TFT panel development software and simulation tool of Levetop, can quickly complete the small and medium-sized TFT display scheme.

Levetop Semiconductor introduces ARM 9 CPU architecture"s serial panel controller - LT3688. It integrates video decoding, audio decoders, TFT LCD controller, and embedded the serial panel communication protocols of Levetop. With the Serial Panel Development Software can quickly realize the product with TFT display function. Suitable for product applications that require video and MP3 playback . The MCU program supports the serial panel communication protocol of most Levetop, including picture display, picture roll, picture-in-picture (PIP), GIF animation display, geometry, vector text display, QR code generation, etc.

Levetop Semiconductor announces a new Serial-Uart TFT controller with the Cortex-M4 core - LT268B. It has high-speed computing power, with 256KB Flash, 128KB SRAM, built-in RTC, and QR-Code QR code generation. If use Levetop"s Serial-Uart development tools, the system MCU can easily pass the contents of the TFT Panel to the Panel driver (Driver) with simple instructions. The LT268B supports an MCU interface TFT Panel with a display resolution of 480 x 320 (HVGA) and provides an SPI or 8-bit MCU interface. Basically this controller meets many small MCU interfaces TFT panel"s application.

Levetop Semiconductor continues to innovate and meet customer needs! Recently we launched Serial-Uart TFT Panel simulator - UI_Emulator. As long as the "UartTFT_Flash.bin" file is designed through Levetop"s Graphic UI Editor(UI_Editor.exe) or the Graphic Integration Compiler(UartTFT_Tool.exe), this simulator can show the same effect once download "UartTFT_Flash.bin" file. That means can be displayed and actually programming to SPI in the UI_Emulator software has the same display effect. To achieve convenient debugging and avoid frequent burning "UartTFT_Flash.bin" file for debugging and waste time.

The LT7688 is an high-performance Uart TFT panel controller. It combines Levetop Semiconductor"s 32bit MCU and TFT Graphics Accelerator - the core architecture of the LT768. LT7688 provides Uart serial communication, allowing the main MCU show pictures on the panel through with simple instructions. Its internal hardware provides graphics acceleration, PIP (Picture-in-Picture), geometry drawing and other features that increase TFT display efficiency and reduce the time it takes for remote MCUs to process graphics display. The display resolutions ranging from 320 x 240 (QVGA) to 1280 x 1024 (SXGA), supporting 16/18bits of the RGB interface.

The LT268 is a Uart panel controller designed for small MCU type TFT panel. Its internal use of Levtop Semiconductor"s 32bit MCU core architecture. The main function is to provide Uart serial communication so that the main MCU can easily show the pictures on the TFT panel through with simple instructions. The LT268 internal hardware and programs provide graphics processing capabilities that increase TFT display efficiency and reduce the time it takes for remote MCUs to process graphics displays.

Based on LT678 TFT Graphics acceleration controller and regular MCU, LeveTop launched Industrial Serial Port TFT Panel solution. This solution includes our UI_Editor and UartTFT_Tool which 2 types of integrated develop software. It enables the TFT panel manufacturer, project developer and the customer of the system end in the TFT screen industry to plan the hardware specifications effectively, achieve their own products display on the TFT screen and avoid sophisticated program development that deals with TFT display. We also provide development board, allowing customers to picture, font, GIF animation, music files and other integrated Bin file through the burner burning into SPI Flash. And then by the user with USB-to-RS232 adapter, through our simulation communication software (Uart_Debug.exe) from the PC or Notebook to verify the display effect of the TFT screen for pre-validation. And confirm whether the design is wrong or need to be modified.

LT2305 is an analog front-end capacitive multi-touch screen control chip launched by LevaTop Semiconductor. It adopts LeveTop Semiconductor "s patented touch sensing technology -TPWS( Touch prediction and window sampling) ,which has 4 parallel capacitors to digital converters, series connecting with interface by SPI. The internal registers of LT2305 was set by MCU, and then connected by multiple chips in parallel. Meanwhile, LT2305 can be matched with Graphics acceleration chip - LT768x, as a single touch controller to simplify TFT module design.

LeveTop semiconductor launched LT7680 - a high efficient graphics acceleration display chip of the world"s smallest QFN package. The display resolution it supports can be from 320*240 （QVGA）to 800*600（SVGA). It supports high speed SPI and I2C serial interfaces. In order to achieve multi-layers high resolution display effect, it has 64Mb build-in display memory. It extremely suitable for embedded systems with TFT-LCD display, such as home appliances, industrial control, electronic instruments, medical equipment, man-machine interface, industrial equipment, testing equipment, charging pile, multi-functional transaction machine, elevator indicator, ticket gate indicator and so on.

LeveTop Semiconductor launched a series of high efficient TFT-LCD graphics acceleration display chips called LT768X. It providing performances such as graphics acceleration, PIP (Picture in Picture) , geometric graphics drawing and so on. LT768x not only improve the TFT display efficiency, but also greatly reduce the time required for the MCU to process graphics display.

In these videos, the SPI (GPIO) bus is referred to being the bottleneck. SPI based displays update over a serial data bus, transmitting one bit per clock cycle on the bus. A 320x240x16bpp display hence requires a SPI bus clock rate of 73.728MHz to achieve a full 60fps refresh frequency. Not many SPI LCD controllers can communicate this fast in practice, but are constrained to e.g. a 16-50MHz SPI bus clock speed, capping the maximum update rate significantly. Can we do anything about this?

The fbcp-ili9341 project started out as a display driver for the Adafruit 2.8" 320x240 TFT w/ Touch screen for Raspberry Pi display that utilizes the ILI9341 controller. On that display, fbcp-ili9341 can achieve a 60fps update rate, depending on the content that is being displayed. Check out these videos for examples of the driver in action:

A hybrid of both Polled Mode SPI and DMA based transfers are utilized. Long sequential transfer bursts are performed using DMA, and when DMA would have too much latency, Polled Mode SPI is applied instead.

Good old interlacing is added into the mix: if the amount of pixels that needs updating is detected to be too much that the SPI bus cannot handle it, the driver adaptively resorts to doing an interlaced update, uploading even and odd scanlines at subsequent frames. Once the number of pending pixels to write returns to manageable amounts, progressive updating is resumed. This effectively doubles the maximum display update rate. (If you do not like the visual appearance that interlacing causes, it is easy to disable this by uncommenting the line #define NO_INTERLACING in file config.h)

This driver does not utilize the notro/fbtft framebuffer driver, so that needs to be disabled if active. That is, if your /boot/config.txt file has lines that look something like dtoverlay=pitft28r, ..., dtoverlay=waveshare32b, ... or dtoverlay=flexfb, ..., those should be removed.

-DPIRATE_AUDIO_ST7789_HAT=ON: If specified, targets a Pirate Audio 240x240, 1.3inch IPS LCD display HAT for Raspberry Pi with ST7789 display controller

-DKEDEI_V63_MPI3501=ON: If specified, targets a KeDei 3.5 inch SPI TFTLCD 480*320 16bit/18bit version 6.3 2018/4/9 display with MPI3501 display controller.

-DGPIO_TFT_DATA_CONTROL=number: Specifies/overrides which GPIO pin to use for the Data/Control (DC) line on the 4-wire SPI communication. This pin number is specified in BCM pin numbers. If you have a 3-wire SPI display that does not have a Data/Control line, set this value to -1, i.e. -DGPIO_TFT_DATA_CONTROL=-1 to tell fbcp-ili9341 to target 3-wire ("9-bit") SPI communication.

-DGPIO_TFT_RESET_PIN=number: Specifies/overrides which GPIO pin to use for the display Reset line. This pin number is specified in BCM pin numbers. If omitted, it is assumed that the display does not have a Reset pin, and is always on.

-DGPIO_TFT_BACKLIGHT=number: Specifies/overrides which GPIO pin to use for the display backlight line. This pin number is specified in BCM pin numbers. If omitted, it is assumed that the display does not have a GPIO-controlled backlight pin, and is always on. If setting this, also see the #define BACKLIGHT_CONTROL option in config.h.

Here is a full example of what to type to build and run, if you have the Adafruit 2.8" 320x240 TFT w/ Touch screen for Raspberry Pi with ILI9341 controller:

If the size of the default HDMI output /dev/fb0 framebuffer differs from the resolution of the display, the source video size will by default be rescaled to fit to the size of the SPI display. fbcp-ili9341 will manage setting up this rescaling if needed, and it will be done by the GPU, so performance should not be impacted too much. However if the resolutions do not match, small text will probably appear illegible. The resizing will be done in aspect ratio preserving manner, so if the aspect ratios do not match, either horizontal or vertical black borders will appear on the display. If you do not use the HDMI output at all, it is probably best to configure the HDMI output to match the SPI display size so that rescaling will not be needed. This can be done by setting the following lines in /boot/config.txt:

These lines hint native applications about the default display mode, and let them render to the native resolution of the TFT display. This can however prevent the use of the HDMI connector, if the HDMI connected display does not support such a small resolution. As a compromise, if both HDMI and SPI displays want to be used at the same time, some other compatible resolution such as 640x480 can be used. See Raspberry Pi HDMI documentation for the available options to do this.

Adjust the CDIV value by passing the directive -DSPI_BUS_CLOCK_DIVISOR=number in CMake command line. Possible values are even numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, .... Note that since CDIV appears in the denominator in the formula for SPI_speed, smaller values result in higher bus speeds, whereas higher values make the display go slower. Initially when you don"t know how fast your display can run, try starting with a safe high setting, such as -DSPI_BUS_CLOCK_DIVISOR=30, and work your way to smaller numbers to find the maximum speed the display can cope with. See the table at the end of the README for specific observed maximum bus speeds for different displays.

This does not mean that overall input to display latency in games would be so immediate. Briefly testing a NES emulated game in Retropie suggests a total latency of about 60-80 msecs. This latency is caused by the NES game emulator overhead and extra latency added by Linux, DispmanX and GPU rendering, and GPU framebuffer snapshotting. (If you ran fbcp-ili9341 as a static library bypassing DispmanX and the GPU stack, directly linking your GPIO input and application logic into fbcp-ili9341, you would be able to get down to this few msecs of overall latency, like shown in the above GPIO input video)

The main option that affects smoothness of display updates is the #define USE_GPU_VSYNC line in config.h. If this is enabled, then the internal Pi GPU HDMI vsync clock is used to drive frames onto the display. The Pi GPU clock runs at a fixed rate that is independent of the content. This rate can be discovered by running tvservice -s on the Pi console, and is usually 59Hz or 60Hz. If your application renders at this rate, animation will look smooth, but if not, there will be stuttering. For example playing a PAL NES game that updates at 50Hz with HDMI clock set at 60Hz will cause bad microstuttering in video output if #define USE_GPU_VSYNC is enabled.

If USE_GPU_VSYNC is disabled, then a busy spinning GPU frame snapshotting thread is used to drive the updates. This will produce smoother animation in content that does not maintain a fixed 60Hz rate. Especially in OpenTyrian, a game that renders at a fixed 36fps and has slowly scrolling scenery, the stuttering caused by USE_GPU_VSYNC is particularly visible. Running on Pi 3B without USE_GPU_VSYNC enabled produces visually smoother looking scrolling on an Adafruit 2.8" ILI9341 PiTFT set to update at 119Hz, compared to enabling USE_GPU_VSYNC on the same setup. Without USE_GPU_VSYNC, the dedicated frame polling loop thread "finds" the 36Hz update rate of the game, and then pushes pixels to the display at this exact rate. This works nicely since SPI displays disregard vsync - the result is that frames are pushed out to the SPI display immediately as they become available, instead of pulling them at a fixed 60Hz rate like HDMI does.

The codebase captures screen framebuffers by snapshotting via the VideoCore vc_dispmanx_snapshot() API, and the obtained pixels are then routed on to the SPI-based display. This kind of polling is performed, since there does not exist an event-based mechanism to get new frames from the GPU as they are produced. The result is inefficient and can easily cause stuttering, since different applications produce frames at different paces. Ideally the code would ask the VideoCore API to receive finished frames in callback notifications immediately after they are rendered, but this kind of functionality does not exist in the current GPU driver stack. In the absence of such event delivery mechanism, the code has to resort to polling snapshots of the display framebuffer using carefully timed heuristics to balance between keeping latency and stuttering low, while not causing excessive power consumption. These heuristics keep continuously guessing the update rate of the animation on screen, and they have been tuned to ensure that CPU usage goes down to 0% when there is no detected activity on screen, but it is certainly not perfect. This GPU limitation is discussed at raspberrypi/userland#440. If you"d like to see fbcp-ili9341 operation reduce latency, stuttering and power consumption, please throw a (kind!) comment or a thumbs up emoji in that bug thread to share that you care about this, and perhaps Raspberry Pi engineers might pick the improvement up on the development roadmap. If this issue is resolved, all of the #define USE_GPU_VSYNC, #define SAVE_BATTERY_BY_PREDICTING_FRAME_ARRIVAL_TIMES and #define SELF_SYNCHRONIZE_TO_GPU_VSYNC_PRODUCED_NEW_FRAMES hacks from the previous section could be deleted from the driver, hopefully leading to a best of all worlds scenario without drawbacks.

Currently if one resizes the video frame size at runtime, this causes DispmanX API to go sideways. See raspberrypi/userland#461 for more information. Best workaround is to set the desired screen resolution in /boot/config.txt and configure all applications to never change that at runtime.

The speed of the SPI bus is linked to the BCM2835 core frequency. This frequency is at 250MHz by default (on e.g. Pi Zero, 3B and 3B+), and under CPU load, the core turbos up to 400MHz. This turboing directly scales up the SPI bus speed by 400/250=+60% as well. Therefore when choosing the SPI CDIV value to use, one has to pick one that works for both idle and turbo clock speeds. Conversely, the BCM core reverts to non-turbo speed when there is only light CPU load active, and this slows down the display, so if an application is graphically intensive but light on CPU, the SPI display bus does not get a chance to run at maximum speeds. A way to work around this is to force the BCM core to always stay in its turbo state with force_turbo=1 option in /boot/config.txt, but this has an unfortunate effect of causing the ARM CPU to always run in turbo speed as well, consuming excessive amounts of power. At the time of writing, there does not yet exist a good solution to have both power saving and good performance. This limitation is being discussed in more detail at raspberrypi/firmware#992.

By default fbcp-ili9341 builds with a statistics overlay enabled. See the video fbcp-ili9341 ported to ILI9486 WaveShare 3.5" (B) SpotPear 320x480 SPI display to find details on what each field means. Build with CMake option -DSTATISTICS=0 to disable displaying the statistics. You can also try building with CMake option -DSTATISTICS=2 to show a more detailed frame delivery timings histogram view, see screenshot and video above.

The fbcp part in the name means framebuffer copy; specifically for the ILI9341 controller. fbcp-ili9341 is not actually a framebuffer copying driver, it does not create a secondary framebuffer that it would copy bytes across to from the primary framebuffer. It is also no longer a driver only for the ILI9341 controller. A more appropriate name might be userland-raspi-spi-display-driver or something like that, but the original name stuck.

Note that the setting DISPLAY_ROTATE_180_DEGREES only affects the pixel memory reading mode of the display. It is not possible to flip the panel scan to run inverted by 180 degrees. This means that adjusting these settings will also have effects of changing the visual appearance of the vsync tearing artifact. If you have the ability to mount the display 180 degrees around in your project, it is recommended to do that instead of using the DISPLAY_ROTATE_180_DEGREES option.

Edit the file config.h in a text editor (a command line one such as pico, vim, nano, or SSH map the drive to your host), and find the appropriate line in the file. Add comment lines // in front of that text to disable the option, or remove the // characters to enable it.

Yes, both work fine. For linux command line terminal, the /dev/tty1 console should be set to output to Linux framebuffer 0 (/dev/fb0). This is the default mode of operation and there do not exist other framebuffers in a default distribution of Raspbian, but if you have manually messed with the con2fbmap command in your installation, you may have inadvertently changed this configuration. Run con2fbmap 1 to see which framebuffer the /dev/tty1 console is outputting to, it should print console 1 is mapped to framebuffer 0. Type con2fbmap 1 0 to reset console 1 back to outputting to framebuffer 0.

If fbcp-ili9341 does not support your display controller, you will have to write support for it. fbcp-ili9341 does not have a "generic SPI TFT driver routine" that might work across multiple devices, but needs specific code for each. If you have the spec sheet available, you can ask for advice, but please do not request to add support to a display controller "blind", that is not possible.

Perhaps. This is a more recent experimental feature that may not be as stable, and there are some limitations, but 3-wire ("9-bit") SPI display support is now available. If you have a 3-wire SPI display, i.e. one that does not have a Data/Control (DC) GPIO pin to connect, configure it via CMake with directive -DGPIO_TFT_DATA_CONTROL=-1 to tell fbcp-ili9341 that it should be driving the display with 3-wire protocol.

In this kind of mode, you would probably strip the DispmanX bits out of fbcp-ili9341, and recast it as a static library that you would link to in your drawing application, and instead of snapshotting frames, you can then programmatically write to a framebuffer in memory from your C/C++ code.

This suggests that the power line or the backlight line might not be properly connected. Or if the backlight connects to a GPIO pin on the Pi (and not a voltage pin), then it may be that the pin is not in correct state for the backlight to turn on. Most of the LCD TFT displays I have immediately light up their backlight when they receive power. The Tontec one has a backlight GPIO pin that boots up high but must be pulled low to activate the backlight. OLED displays on the other hand seem to stay all black even after they do get power, while waiting for their initialization to be performed, so for OLEDs it may be normal for nothing to show up on the screen immediately after boot.

If the backlight connects to a GPIO pin, you may need to define -DGPIO_TFT_BACKLIGHT= in CMake command line or config.h, and edit config.h to enable #define BACKLIGHT_CONTROL.

fbcp-ili9341 needs a few megabytes of GPU memory to function if DMA transfers are enabled. The gpu_mem boot config option dictates how much of the Pi"s memory area is allocated to the GPU. By default this is 64MB, which has been observed to not leave enough memory for fbcp-ili9341 if HDMI is run at 1080p. If this error happens, try increasing GPU memory to e.g. 128MB by adding a line gpu_mem=128 in /boot/config.txt.

All the ILI9341 displays work nice and super fast at ~70-80MHz. My WaveShare 3.5" 320x480 ILI9486 display runs really slow compared to its pixel resolution, ~32MHz only. See fbcp-ili9341 ported to ILI9486 WaveShare 3.5" (B) SpotPear 320x480 SPI display for a video of this display in action. Adafruit"s 320x480 3.5" HX8357D PiTFTs is ~64% faster in comparison.

If manufacturing variances turn out not to be high between copies, and you"d like to have a bigger 320x480 display instead of a 240x320 one, then it is recommended to avoid ILI9486, they indeed are slow.

The Tontec MZ61581 controller based 320x480 3.5" display on the other hand can be driven insanely fast at up to 140MHz! These seem to be quite hard to come by though and they are expensive. Tontec seems to have gone out of business and for example the domain itontec.com from which the supplied instructions sheet asks to download original drivers from is no longer registered. I was able to find one from eBay for testing.

Port fbcp-ili9341 to work as a static code library that one can link to another application for CPU-based drawing directly to display, bypassing inefficiencies and latency of the general purpose Linux DispmanX/graphics stack.

This driver is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt. In nonlegal terms, it"s yours for both free and commercial projects, DIY packages, kickstarters, Etsys and Ebays, and you don"t owe back a dime. Feel free to apply and derive as you wish.

If you found fbcp-ili9341 useful, it makes me happy to hear back about the projects it found a home in. If you did a build or a project where fbcp-ili9341 worked out, it"d be great to see a video or some photos or read about your experiences.

TFT displays bring life to the project. Why shy with the LCD character display? OLED displays look good and stand out too but small size and limited colors limit the application to basic graphics but are still colorless. No color? No life!

Having the option of TFT display in your next Arduino project can add so many vibrant menu options, can display images, and hence can be a very rich user experience thing.

This is a very basic example of displaying a few texts on the display. We will use the library from Adafruit for the same. The best thing about the Wokwi Embedded systems simulator is that you can run the code straight from the browser. It means, you can easily share the project (as a link) and your friend can run it and lay with the project.

In this article, you will get a working Arduino project which has a simulated TFT display. The display will exactly work in the same way how it would work in the real world and with the real hardware. You can try any TFT project you have!

Let us get started. You will complete the code, connection diagram as well as live working Arduino simulation link so that you can start playing with the code instantly! For more information on the Simulated TFT display,click here.

Orient Display sunlight readable TFT displays can be categorized into high brightness TFT displays, high contrast IPS displays, transflective TFT displays, Blanview TFT displays etc.

The brightness of our standard high brightness TFT displays can be from 700 to 1000 nits. With proper adding brightness enhancement film (BEF) and double brightness enhancement film (DBEF) and adjustment of the LED chips, Orient Display high brightness TFT products can achieve 1,500 to 2,000 nits or even higher luminance. Orient Display have special thermal management design to reduce the heat release and largely extend LED life time and reduce energy consumption.

Our high contrast and wide viewing angle IPS displays can achieve contrast ratio higher than 1000:1 which can make readability under strong sunlight with lower backlight luminance. High brightness IPS displays have been widely accepted by our customers with its superb display quality and it has become one of the best sellers in all our display category.Transflective display is an old monochrome display technology but it has been utilized in our color TFT line for sunlight readable application. Orient Display has 2.4” and 3.5” to choose from.

Blanview TFT displays are the new technology developed by Ortustech in Japan. It can provide around 40% of energy consumption for TFT panels which can use smaller rechargeable or disposable batteries and generate less heat. The price is also lower than traditional transflective TFT displays. Orient Display is partnering with the technology inventor to provide 4.3” and 5.0”.

High Level Interfaces: Orient Display has technologies to make more advanced interfaces which are more convenient to non-display engineers, such as RS232, RS485, USB, VGA, HDMI etc. more information can be found in our serious products. TFT modules, Arduino TFT display, Raspberry Pi TFT display, Control Board.

The cView Series : Mil-Grade TFT LCD Solutions has been designed and manufactured to encompass a range of Flat Panel Displays for Military or Industrial Applications. The prime focus is to facilitate clear viewing and enhance image quality without compromising on the environmental & EMI compliance.

The RPi LCD can be driven in two ways: Method 1. install driver to your Raspbian OS. Method 2. use the Ready-to-use image file of which LCD driver was pre-installed.

3) Connect the TF card to the Raspberry Pi, start the Raspberry Pi. The LCD will display after booting up, and then log in to the Raspberry Pi terminal,(You may need to connect a keyboard and HDMI LCD to Pi for driver installing, or log in remotely with SSH)

1. Executing apt-get upgrade will cause the LCD to fail to work properly. In this case, you need to edit the config.txt file in the SD card and delete this sentence: dtoverlay=ads7846.

This LCD can be calibrated through the xinput-calibrator program. Note: The Raspberry Pi must be connected to the network, or else the program won"t be successfully installed.

Leveraging 50 years of presence in avionic cockpit lighting we provide the ultimate display solutions. Cevians has rapidly become the fastest-growing privately owned company offering fully customized TFT-LCDs. Our highly vertically integrated technological foundation, from material science, thin-film coatings, optical designs, electronics and electro-mechanical designs to system engineering, makes Cevians’ capabilities and product offerings truly unique and the natural partner for Tier 1 OEMs.

Understanding the diverse industry ecosystem, we offer the level of product that integrates perfectly in each customer’s base model, from supplying custom TFT-LCD to LCD modules, display head assemblies (DHA), and fully ruggedized display systems. This flexible strategy allows our customers to efficiently use their resources for core competencies.