FTDI Chip –
Embedded Video Engine
Designing with the FT800
Agenda
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Introduction to “EVE”
Key features and benefits
Hardware and system
requirements
Do you require Audio?
Display connections
Development flow (software)
What are display objects
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FT800 ‘is not complicated’
Application examples:
multiple display objects
Application creation : Clocks
EVE Code Creation
EVE Hardware options
Supporting Utilities
Supporting Documentation
VM800P Board Set up
FTDI Chip Overview
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Full range of associated development kits and USB interface cables
“EVE”
Embedded
Video Engine
Typical Hardware
Current designs usually require
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High-end µC typically 32-bit with abundant IO + external
memory
 Higher cost and board area
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Graphics library and sometimes an Embedded OS required
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Expensive frame buffer IC required for display memory
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Touch and audio implementations needed
FT800 Hardware
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Low cost MCUs enabled (ATMEGA 328, PIC, 8051, etc)
48 pin QFN for reduced PCB area
SPI/I²C interface options for reduced pins, simple interface
262k colour (RGB – 6,6,6) WQVGA graphics
Touch controller
Audio output
FT800 Block Diagram
EVE Roadmap
Where can we see
these benefits?
Have
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Want
Upgrade to modern Human Machine Interface (HMI)
Replace mechanical switch (expensive, bespoke)
Increased functionality w/graphical feedback – e.g. display and control
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Aesthetic versatility
Where can we see
these benefits?
Have
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Replace mechanical controls – save on expense and space
Company logos instead of buttons
Audio feedback
Add adverts/information within commercial environments
“EVE”
Key features
and benefits
Key Features and
benefits
The FT800’s object oriented approach renders
images in a line by line fashion with 1/16th of
a pixel resolution
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No expensive frame buffer (less RAM)
required lowering system cost
• Anti-Aliasing
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Allows the FT800 to produce sharper,
smoother edges with enhanced image
quality, even on lower resolution
displays.
• Alpha blending and masking algorithms
• Create shadows / 3D / fade effects
•In-built widgets for complex shapes
• Colour Dither
• Allows the FT800 to calculate for 8-bit
colour despite only providing pins for 6-bit
(RGB – 6,6,6)
• Improves half-tone appearance
• 8kbyte RAM stores display list
• Approximately 2000 items
• Programmable Timing
• Allows the FT800 to adjust HSYNC and
VSYNC timing enabling control of many
different displays.
Key Features and
benefits
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Mono audio (single pin) output from
PWM
64-voice polyphonic synthesiser
– Play pre-stored sounds
allowing for fast implementation
of sound generation e.g. bells,
chirps, beeps, alarms, clicks,
DTMF tones
Audio wave playback for mono-8-bit
linear PCM, 4-bit ADPCM and µ-Law
coding format at sampling frequency
from 8kHz to 48kHz
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Designed for resistive touch screens
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Includes median filtering and touch force
sensing to adjust the screens sensitivity.
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4 wire control (X+, X-, Y+, Y-)
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Screen pressure alters
resistance between the +/signals with the value
returned to the FT800.
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10 bit ADC + processing
enables location to be
determined.
Design Cycle
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Select your FT800
hardware
Confirm your
Controller
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Utilise the
appropriate compiler
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Design your
application
Do you
require Audio?
Designing with the
FT800 – Hardware
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Audio Circuit
Display
connections
Display Connections –
RGB Swizzle
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What happens if the LCD Panel has a different pin out?
Display Connections –
Data Spreading CSPREAD
RGB Timing with CSPREAD disabled
RGB Timing with CSPREAD enabled
Development
flow:
7 Stages
Startup & Config
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Configure the SPI/I2C interface
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SPI supports Mode 0 to 30MHz
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I2C supports up to 3.4Mbit/s
2. Wake up the FT800
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Fundamentally a dummy read to address 0 and configure the PLL
Startup
3. Configure the TFT display timing parameters
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Many displays will have different timing for horizontal and vertical sync.
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FT800 has a set of 10 registers to set the synchronisation
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FT800 has 3 additional registers to control actual pixel clocking:
FT_DispPCLK – Pixel clock divisor
FT_DispSwizzle – Sync of RGB pixel clocking
FT_DispPCLKPol – Polarity of clock
Startup & Config
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Typical values for frame synchronisation:
REGISTER
WQVGA
VGA
REGISTER
WQVGA
VGA
41
10
FT_DispWidth
480
320
FT_DispHSync1
FT_DispHeight
272
240
FT_DispVCycle
292
263
FT_DispHCycle
548
408
FT_DispVOffset
12
13
0
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10
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FT_DispHOffset
43
70
FT_DispVSync0
FT_DispHSync0
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0
FT_DispVSync1
Startup & Config
4. Configure the TFT display touch parameters
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Theoretically only required if using the touch function.
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19 registers to control sensitivity (charge and settle) and monitor feedback
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Key ones are:
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Reg_Touch_Mode_Definition
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Reg_Touch_Charge_Definition
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Reg_Touch_Settle Definition
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Values dependant upon display
FT800 Step 2
Create the Code (part 3)
Enable the LCD
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5. Create the display list
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Multiple paths for this.
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Direct to 8kRAM (2000 objects)
Note: An object may be visual, audio or touch.
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Via j1 co-processor.
6. Complete and swap the display list
7. Compile and load the code into the system
processor
Data Paths
Graphic Processor
Data Path
Audio and touch
processor ctrl/data paths
What are
display objects?
FT800 Graphic objects
‘EVE’ displays are created using two
primary types of objects:
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Primitive objects (simple
shapes)
Widget objects
FT800 Graphic
Primitives – Basic Shapes
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POINTS – anti-aliased points, point
radius is 1-256 pixels
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LINES – anti-aliased lines, with width
of 1-256 pixels (width is from center
of the line to boundary)
FT800 Graphic
Primitives – Basic Shapes
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LINE STRIP – anti-aliased lines,
connected head-to-tail
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EDGE STRIP – Above, Below, Left,
Right – anti aliased edge strips
FT800 Graphic
Primitives – Basic Shapes
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RECTS – round-cornered anti-aliased
rectangles (curvature of the corners
can be adjusted using LINE WIDTH)
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BITMAPS – rectangular pixel arrays,
in various color formats
FT800 Graphic
Engine Widgets
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TEXT – draw text of varying font types and sizes
BUTTON – draw a button
CLOCK – draw an analog clock face
GAUGE – draw a gauge with optional pointer and
tick marks
GRADIENT – draw a smooth color gradient
KEYS – draw a row of keys
PROGRESS – draw a progress bar showing two
colors
SLIDER – draw a slider bar with knob
SCROLLBAR – draw a scroll bar
DIAL – draw a knob with an optional pointer
TOGGLE – draw a selection bar with two choices
(yes/no, on/off, etc.)
NUMBER – draw a decimal number with optional
sign
FT800 Graphic
Engine Widgets
Graphics functionality 2 – alpha blend, stencil buffer functionality.
Coprocessor Widget set 13
FT800 Graphic
Engine Widgets
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Coprocessor in built functionality ~8 – jpeg decode
(baseline), inflate, calibration, logo, screen saver,
sketch, snapshot, set font
Coprocessor in built operations – 1D memory
operation, bitmap post processing, register read/write,
interrupt generation etc.
Coprocessor track – linear and rotary track.
FT800
is not
complicated
FT800 Registry
and Command Set
72 registers which are classified into 5 groups
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Graphics Engine Registers
Audio Engine Registers
Touch Engine Registers
Co-processor Engine Registers
Miscellaneous Registers.
65 Commands which are classified into 5 groups
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Graphics Commands
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Widget Commands
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Memory Commands
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Bitmap Commands
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Other Commands
REG_SWIZZLE
REG_TOUCH_MODE
REG_GPIO
POINT_SIZE
CMD_GRADIENT
CMD_CALIBRATE
Software –
Display List Functions
PRIMITIVES (basic shapes)
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BITMAPS
POINTS
LINES
LINE STRIP
EDGE STRIP_R
EDGE_STRIP_L
EDGE_STRIP_A
EDGE_STRIP_B
RECTS
DRAWING ACTIONS
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BEGIN
END
VERTEX2II
VERTEX2F
EXECUTION CONTROL
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JUMP
MACRO
CALL
RETURN
DISPLAY
Software –
Graphics Commands
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ALPHA_FUNC
BITMAP_HANDLE
BITMAP_LAYOUT BITMAP_SIZE
BITMAP_SOURCE
BITMAP_TRANSFORM_A-F
BLEND_FUNC
CELL
CLEAR
CLEAR_COLOR_A
CLEAR_COLOR_RGB
CLEAR_STENCIL
CLEAR_TAG
COLOR_A
COLOR_MASK
COLOR_RGB
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LINE_WIDTH
POINT_SIZE
RESTORE_CONTEXT
SAVE_CONTEXT
SCISSOR_SIZE
SCISSOR_XY
STENCIL_FUNC
STENCIL_MASK
STENCIL_OP
TAG
TAG_MASK
Software –
Graphic Engine Functions
WIDGET COMMANDS
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MEMORY COMMANDS
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CMD_MEMCRC
CMD_TEXT
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CMD_MEMZERO
CMD_BUTTON
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CMD_MEMSET
CMD_CLOCK
CMD_MEMWRITE
CMD_BGCOLOR •
CMD_MEMCPY
CMD_FGCOLOR •
CMD_APPEND
CMD_GRADCOLOR •
CMD_GAUGE
OTHER COMMANDS
CMD_GRADIENT
CMD_KEYS
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CMD_COLDSTART
CMD_PROGRESS •
CMD_INTERRUPT
CMD_SCROLLBAR •
CMD_REGREAD
CMD_SLIDER
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CMD_CALIBRATE
CMD_DIAL
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CMD_SPINNER
CMD_TOGGLE
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CMD_STOP
CMD_NUMBER •
CMD_SCREENSAVER
BITMAP COMMANDS
CMD_INFLATE
CMD_LOADIMAGE
CMD_LOADIDENTITY
CMD_TRANSLATE
CMD_SCALE
CMD_ROTATE
CMD_SETMATRIX
CMD_GETMATRIX
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CMD_SKETCH
CMD_SNAPSHOT
CMD_LOGO
Widget example:
Buttons/keys
Buttons
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cmd_button(10, 10, 140, 100, 31, 0, "Press!"); // X Y width height font
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cmd_button(10, 10, 140, 100, 31, OPT_FLAT, "Press!");
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cmd_button(10, 10, 50, 25, 26, 0, "One");
cmd_button(10, 40, 50, 25, 26, 0, "Two");
cmd_button(10, 70, 50, 25, 26, 0, "Three");
cmd_fgcolor(0xb9b900),
cmd_button(10, 10, 50, 25, 26, 0, "Banana");
cmd_fgcolor(0xb97300),
cmd_button(10, 40, 50, 25, 26, 0, "Orange");
cmd_fgcolor(0xb90007),
cmd_button(10, 70, 50, 25, 26, 0, "Cherry");
Keys
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Code demonstrates the usage of the keys function
Draws buttons with characters given as input parameters
Flat and 3D effects, draw at (x,y) coordinates or centre of the display
Inbuilt or custom fonts can be used for key display
Application examples
using multiple
display
objects
Power Graph
Application
Cmd_gradient(BackgroundColor);
Gpu_draw(PowerSignalEdgeStripAbove);
Gpu_draw(StencilForEdgeStripAbove);
Cmd_gradient(PowerSignalBackgroundColor);
Gpu_draw(PowerSignalLineStrip);
Cmd_clock(NineClocksWithOneHourChange);
Cmd_text(NineClocksTime);
Gpu_draw(VerticalTransparentLinesAboveClocks);
Gpu_draw(TransparentEdgeStripLeftForPowerValues);
Cmd_text(PowerRangeValues);
Gpu_draw(HorizontalTranparentLinesForPowerValues);
Power Graph
Screenshot
Cmd_text(PowerRangeValues);
Cmd_gradient(PowerSignalBackgroundColor);
Cmd_clock(NineClocksWithOneHourChange);
Cmd_gradient(BackgroundColor);
Gpu_draw(PowerSignalLineStrip);
Display;
Application example:
‘Clocks’
Clocks Application
Cmd_gradient(BackgroundColor);
Cmd_clock(SingaporeTime);
Cmd_track(TrackSingaporeClock);
Cmd_text(Singapore);
Cmd_clock(PescaderoTime);
Cmd_track(TrackPescaderoClock);
Cmd_text(Pescadero);
Gpu_draw(DrawHomeBitmap);
Clocks
Screenshot
Cmd_gradient(BackgroundColour);
Cmd_text(Singapore);
Cmd_text(Pescadero;
Display;
Cmd_clock(SingaporeTime;
EVE Code
creation
Software development
prototype setup
• PC running Microsoft Visual studio acting as microcontroller
• FTDI high speed SPI cable
• FT800 Basic module to control 4.3" display with display and black bezel enclosure
Code creation points
(circles)
Code creation points
(circles)
Code creation points
(circles)
Application code
creation
EVE Hardware
options
FT800Q IC
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48 pin VQFN package
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Tape and Reel (2500 pcs) or Tray (250 pcs)
packaging options
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RoHS Compliant
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-40Deg C to +85 Deg C Operating Temperature
VM800C (Credit Card)
Development Hardware
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Development board containing with FT800
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Includes connector for RGB video timing and
touch control signals to the display
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Includes audio amp
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Includes connector to mate with external MCU
via SPI
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May be supplied with or without display
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Display support for 3.5”, 4.3” and 5.0 “ QVGA
and WQVGA displays
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without display or with display
VM800B (Basic)
Development Hardware
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Development board containing with FT800
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Support for 3.5”, 4.3” and 5.0 “ QVGA and WQVGA displays
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Precision fitted bezel in black or pearl
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Includes audio amp
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Includes connector to mate with external MCU via SPI
VM800B/VM800C
Block Diagram
USB to SPI
Connection
VA800A-SPI
C232HM-DDHSL-0
VM800P
Plus Module
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Plus module with on board
Atmega MCU
Support for 3.5”, 4.3” and 5.0 “
QVGA and WQVGA displays
Audio amplifier & speaker
Precision fitted bezel in black or
pearl
USB micro –
power/programming
SD Card slot – BMP`s audio files
Battery operation – Real Time
Clock
VM800P Plus Module
Block Diagram
Supporting
utilities
EVE Support Utilities
SOFTWARE:
Sample application including FT_GPU.h and Hardware
Abstraction Layer (HAL).
Img_cvt windows utility for formatting images such that
EVE can use them
Aud_cvt windows utility for formatting audio files such
that EVE can use them
fnt_cvt windows utility for formatting fonts to bitmaps
such that EVE can use them
All available from www.ftdichip.com
Supporting
documentation
FT800
Document Resources
www.ftdichip.com/EVE
VM800P
board setup
VM800P
VM800P
Install Drivers
Plug in the USB cable to the PC
Load a program
Download the Example 13- FT_App_Signals sample app
from the web site:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/SoftwareExamples/F
T800_Projects.htm
Unzip to a new folder, double click on the project
FT_App_Signals.ino, found within:
\Downloads\FT_App_Signals\FT_App_Signals\Project\Aurdino\FT_App_Sign
als\FT_App_Signals.ino
This will automatically open the Ardunio IDE tool chain.
IDE Select Board
IDE Select Port
Program the ATMega328
Program the
ATMega328
Error if the incorrect com port is selected
Load a sample app
The sample application will run after a reset. First screen
is the three point calibrate
Run the sample app
Load a program
SD card images
Download the Example 22- Refrigerator sample app from
the web site:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/SoftwareExamples/F
T800_Projects.htm
Unzip to a new folder, FT_App_Refrigerator.ino,
found within:
\FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\
FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\Project\Arduino\FT_App_Refrigerator
Load a program
SD card images
Copy contents of Test folder to VM800P SD card
Double click on the project FT_App_Refrigerator.ino, found within:
\FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\
FT800_DEMOAPP_Refrigerator_V1.1\Project\Arduino\FT_App_Refrigerator
IDE will open
with project
Load a sample app
The sample application will run after a reset. First screen
is the three point calibrate
Run the sample app
Slide Summary
FT800Applications
Cooking Machines
Rice Cookers
Induction
Cookers
Oven/
Microwave
Juice Maker
Coffee/ Tea
Machines
Washer/Dryer
Machines
Air Conditioner/
Smart Homes
Central Air Conditioner
Smart Meter/ Smart home controller:
It could combine with Zigbee or WiFi for Smart Home
applications.
Others for home
electric goods
Massage Chair
Lighting Control
Refrigerator
Industry Field: Elevator
display for each floor
Display and audio, do not need touch function
FTDI Example
Industry Field: Elevator
display for each floor
Door Security
IP Phone
POS Phone
Industry HMI
interface
Power Meter
Disk Server
UPS
Vending Machine/
Smart card payment
Smart card scanner for payment
Vending Machine
Health tech (or
blood-pressure/ handheld devices)
FT800 Applications –
Money counting machine
Others –
home router
For wireless router
MFP/
Embroidery Machine
Multi Function Printer
Embroidery Machine
Toy related
applications
Low-end gamer
Electric Piano
Childs computer
QUESTIONS?