RENESAS SIM205

4.3” WQVGA Touch/Graphic Module
Featuring the Renesas RX621 MCU with LCD Direct Drive
Adding a graphic/touch interface to
your product has never been faster
than with Serious Integrated Modules. Simply connect power and a
communications port from your existing system to the SIM205 and
your hardware design is complete.
The SIM205 is an off-the-shelf, production-worthy and prototype-friendly 4.3” WQVGA TFT graphic/touch
module powered by the Renesas
RX600 MCU and supported by extensive out-of-the-box software.
SIM205 Hardware Features
1.
4.3” Wide QVGA 16-bit
color 480×272 TFT Touch
Display with 4-wire Resistive
Touch
2. 100MHz 32-bit Renesas RX621 with 512KB Flash,
96KB RAM and FPU
8. Battery Backed Real Time
Clock/Calendar with 1Kbit
EEPROM and 64 bytes parameter SRAM
9. Standard 14-pin debug port
for Renesas E1 and compatible debuggers
6. Advanced Dual Supply Dynamic Power Path Management with charger for (optional) Lithium Ion Polymer
battery
March 2012 v1.9
4. 8MB (64Mbit) Serial FLASH 10. D-to-A driven 750mW Class D
for program, image, and data
Audio Amplifier with speaker
storage
11. USB Embedded Host Port Up
5. Baseboard connector: SPI, I2C,
to 150mA supply
CAN, USB, UART, ADC,
& GPIO
12. System Temperature Sensor
SIM205 Product Brief
3. 8MB SDRAM wired for Direct
Drive of LCD panel
7. USB device port (can power
whole module!)
SIM205 Software and Support
Writing a full GUI application can be a daunting
task. Even before you write that first line of GUI
code you can waste months porting an OS and
developing the board support package, basic
support utilities, and graphics libraries. Serious
delivers out-of-the-box pre-ported software
that that gets you past these initial barriers in
minutes, not months – all with no-cost licenses!
makes Direct Drive nearly transparent to the application, allowing you to write a GUI application that can
more easily port to other SIMs without Direct Drive.
No-Cost Development Tools
Looking for a comprehensive WYSIWYG rapid-GUI
development environment? A demo of the soon-tobe-released Serious Human Interface Platform™ (SHIP)
comes preloaded on the SIM205. Contact Serious for
more information on SHIP and how GUIs can be developed in hours.
Software provided with the SIM205 is targeted for
the free Renesas High Performance Embedded Workbench (HEW) along with the free KPIT GNU toolsuite.
Develop complete applications on SIM205 with no
software development tool costs! For more information on the Renesas RX621 MCU and tools, visit
www.rxmcu.com. Serious is committed to supporting the new Eclipse-based Renesas e2 Studio as it
evolves through the beta development phase in 2012.
Out-of-the-Box RTOSs & BSP
Pre-ported Pre-Licensed RTOSs
Pick the right RTOS for the job: SIM205 comes
with pre-ported single commercial full-production
licenses of both the Micrium μC/OS-III and Segger embOS professional-grade kernels as well
as the standard open-source FreeRTOS kernel.
Out of the Box Drivers
The SIM205’s no-cost software includes many pre-ported cross-OS drivers including SPI, I2C, UART, RTCC, CAN,
Graphics, Touch, and Timer drivers with full source code.
Direct Drive Support
Serious’ Direct Drive subsystem goes beyond the Renesas driver, adding on-the-fly portrait and landscape
mode selection, dynamic frame rate management,
and an enhanced direct drive “monitor” task. Serious
is a prototypers enclosure
designed for the SIM205,
and includes a USB-rechargeable Lithium Ion
battery.
Renesas Graphics API (GAPI)
The Renesas Graphics API, in source code with
documentation, is part of the demo application.
The Serious Human Interface Platform™ (SHIP)
Segger JLink Lite RX
New to the RX600
family?
Purchase the SIM205 bundled with the
cost effective Segger JLink Lite RX JTAG Debugger/Programmer. Use the JLink Lite RX for the
programming and debugging programs on the
SIM205 as well as any future RX600-based project.
Buying SIM205
SHIP Core Elements
Source-code for core elements from SHIP (“SHIP
Core”) are included with the SIM205, including malloc/free replacements that allow multiple heaps and
easier debugging, a buffer allocation system (typically
for communications ISRs and messages), as well as an
OS Abstraction layer that allows projects to be written identically for all supported RTOSs without #ifdefs!
Beyond these basic utilities, SHIP Core also includes basic CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART driver frameworks that you
can build upon for your applications’ specific needs.
SIM205 is available direct
from Serious in the US, and
worldwide
from
Digi-Key.
SIM205 Partners
Serious Support and Services
Serious offers comprehensive software, hardware and GUI customization and development
services.
Contact Serious for information.
The
mySerious.com site offers community and Serious applications support for registered users of the SIM205.
SIM205 Accessories
SBX200 Prototyping Enclosure
Need a prototyping box? Something to keep it safe
while your marketing team is handling it? The SBX200
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