Hi All
I can't keep it a secret any longer because I do just love the ATMEL AVR32. The chip is called the
32UC3A0512 and has 512k FLASH, 64k SRAM, USB (host/device/OTG), an external memory interface and 10/100M Ethernet (needs external PHY).
A lot of its peripherals are compatible with the SAM7X, which make movement between these devices very easy (
as movement to and from all supported devices generally). It has some advantages and some disadvantages (as always) but is essentially great to work with, with bags of power to do lots of useful things.
If anyone already has an ATMEL EVK1105 evaluation board there is a provisional demo including a simple step-by-step guide to loading it and then test driving the board, with emphasis on its color LCD. See below for the links.
This is fully in keeping with the introduction of graphic LCD support into the uTasker project as briefly discussed here:
http://www.utasker.com/forum/index.php?topic=618.0.
The TFT on the EVK1105 is connected via the external memory interface, making its access very efficient. The LCD demo is the new highlight, as described in the document and also contactable (at the moment) on-line at
http://demo.uTasker.com I hope that you like it! It was fun to program and, developing in the uTasker simulator - which includes new monochrome graphical LCD, as well as initial TFT color simulation support - quite easy to get up and running too.
Look out for a new package release quite shortly!!!
Regards
Mark
- http://www.uTasker.com/software/test/AVR32_demo_2.PDF A quick step by step guide to programming the board and turning it into an LCD picture frame with images send via web browser (also present image viewed by web browser…!). See the doc for browser screen shots, or better still load it to your board!
- http://www.uTasker.com/software/test/DemoAVR32-2.zip Binary and web pages, plus a couple of test images (320 x 240 24 bit color)
