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We offer many TFT LCDs that support multiple interfaces, making communicating with a TFT display as straight-forward as possible. Whether you need a parallel interface or a more commonly found SPI interface and even Generic RGB / DOT-CLK crystalfontz has all of TFT LCDs you need in assorted resolutions and sizes. If you"re not finding the correct TFT LCD display module for your product or project, please contact our awesome support team to see if they can help you find an appropriate TFT LCD display module for you.

TFT Interface: 3 SPI and 16/18/24BIT RGB, WHITE LED backlight, IPS, Wide temp, Transmissive, Capacitive Touch Screen, CTP Interface: I2C, 450 NITS, RoHS Compliant

The Capacitive touch panel is activated with anything containing an inductive load such as a finger or stylus. It allows for multi-touch options. When using the capacitive touch screen, the display needs a separate controller to interface with the touch panel. The display for capacitive touch is brighter since the touch panel is transparent.

The Transmissive polarizer is best used for displays that run with the backlight on all the time. This polarizer provides the brightest backlight possible. If you have a need for a bright backlight with lower power drain, transmissive is a good choice for this TFT LCD display.

Focus LCDs can provide many accessories to go with your display. If you would like to source a connector, cable, test jig or other accessory preassembled to your LCD (or just included in the package), our team will make sure you get the items you need.Get in touch with a team member today to accessorize your display!

Focus Display Solutions (aka: Focus LCDs) offers the original purchaser who has purchased a product from the FocusLCDs.com a limited warranty that the product (including accessories in the product"s package) will be free from defects in material or workmanship.

The Capacitive touch panel is activated with anything containing an inductive load such as a finger or stylus. It allows for multi-touch options. When using the capacitive touch screen, the display needs a separate controller to interface with the touch panel. The display for capacitive touch is brighter since the touch panel is transparent.

The Transmissive polarizer is best used for displays that run with the backlight on all the time. This polarizer provides the brightest backlight possible. If you have a need for a bright backlight with lower power drain, transmissive is a good choice for this TFT LCD display.

Focus LCDs can provide many accessories to go with your display. If you would like to source a connector, cable, test jig or other accessory preassembled to your LCD (or just included in the package), our team will make sure you get the items you need.Get in touch with a team member today to accessorize your display!

Focus Display Solutions (aka: Focus LCDs) offers the original purchaser who has purchased a product from the FocusLCDs.com a limited warranty that the product (including accessories in the product"s package) will be free from defects in material or workmanship.

ER-TFT023-1 is 320x240 dots 2.3" color tft lcd module display with ILI9342 controller,optional 4-wire resistive touch panel and optional capacitive touch panel ,superior display quality,super wide viewing angle and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO ARM and Raspberry PI.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.It supports 8080 8-bit,9-bit,16-bit,18-bit parallel,3-wire,4-wire serial spi interface. FPC with zif connector is easily to assemble or remove.Lanscape mode is also available.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!".Here is the link for 2.3"TFT Shield with Libraries, Examples.Schematic Diagram for Arduino Due,Mega 2560 and Uno.For 8051 microcontroller user,we prepared the detailed tutorial such as interfacing, demo code and Development Kit at the bottom of this page.

ER-TFTM070-4V2.1 is the updated version of ER-TFTM070-4,that is 800x480 dots 7" color tft lcd module display with ssd1963 controller board,superior display quality,super wide viewing angle and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO, and ARM .It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.

It supports 6800, 8080 8-bit /9-bit/16-bit/18-bit/24-bit parallel interface.Built-in MicroSD card slot.It"s optional for resistive touch panel and controller XPT2046,capacitive touch panel and controller FT5206, font chip, flash chip and microsd card. We offer two types connection,one is pinheader and the another is ZIF connector with flat cable mounting on board by default and suggested.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!".Here is the link for7" TFT capacitive touch shield with libraries,examples,schematic diagram for Arduino Due,Mega 2560 and Uno. For 8051 microcontroller user,we prepared the detailed tutorial such as interfacing, demo code and development kit at the bottom of this page.

This 10.1 inch TFT LCD display has a 1024x600 resolution screen with IPS technology, which delivers sunlight readable brightness, better color reproduction, better image consistency, and better optical characteristics at any angle. For extra protection, this 24-bit true color TFT also includes an EMI filter on the input power supply line. This 10.1" display is RoHS compliant with LVDS interface, and does not include a touchscreen. This 10.1" IPS display has been designed with the same mechanical footprint and pinout and includes the same HX8282 driver IC as the TN display, making this a compatible replacement option for the TN models.

Choose from a wide selection of interface options or talk to our experts to select the best one for your project. We can incorporate HDMI, USB, SPI, VGA and more into your display to achieve your design goals.

7" inch TFT LCD module 800x480 SSD1963 w/touchpad PWM, ardu AVR STM32 ARM Description: 100% brand new 7.0 Inch TFT LCD module (w/touchscreen and SD slot) (also for Ardu MEGA or DUE ) Features: 7.0" TFT LCD Module, Resolution 800x480, SSD1963 Controller LCD Type: TFT Transmissive Normal White Interface: 8/16bit parallel bus interface PCB Color: Blue On board 400mA DC-DC Boost regulator to provide power supply to LCD backlight LCD-specificed intialization code is provided, so that you can save time to optimize power control register and gamma curves for best display performance. We have test the provided code, it gives the best display performanace Module dimension: 186mmx106mmx23mm(including pin header extrusion) Active Area: 154mmx86mm Pixel pitch: 0.179mmx0.179mm Standard 2x20 2.54mm pin header for connection to MCU/development board Module weight: 410grams

Please see the DT028CTFT for reference designs. The schematics between the A and the C are the same with the exception that the A does not have the IPS interface.

The DT022BTFT uses the same connections as the DT022CTFT, with the exception of the backlight (which has connections shown in the Displaytech datasheet).

4-wire 8-bit Serial Data Interface II is the correct mode to use based on the microprocessor pins available. This mode is closest to standard SPI port operation with a few minor exceptions.

NOTE: This This is mostly just a brain-dump of LCD concepts and vague ideas as to how to make use of them with a cheap 8-bit microcontroller. It"s probably not well organized, nor complete. Much of the useful implementation-information (schematics, timing diagrams) is well-documented in my code. See

The main point of this particular document is this: You (generally) don"t have to match, or even come close to, the documented timing specifications for a particular TFT... From experience, it"s definitely possible to put an image on a 1024x768 laptop display directly from an 8-bit microcontroller running at 16MHz (though maybe not *every* display matching these specs, best to have a couple to experiment with). Experiment!

These days, old laptop LCDs are pretty easy to come by. Buy one off ebay for $10-$15, or find one in an old laptop which"s been, quite literally, pho"d.

I won"t go into too much history here, except to say that life is significantly easier now that TFT"s are on the junk pile. Or at least, it"s significantly easier to give new life to that old TFT than it would be for a 486-era display.

A few things, before I begin with the technicalities: I have experimented with exactly *3* old TFT displays. Two worked with my methods described here, one didn"t. I still have some hope for that display, but not as much drive. (Maybe someone here can figure it out?). I"ve pieced together this "document" from experimentation, lots of experimentation, as well as piecing together quite a bit from data-sheets and other specifications as a starting-point. I have no training, nor professional experience, with LCDs, so take *everything* said here with that in mind. I will also throw in this IMPORTANT BIT: Apparently most of these displays are SIGNIFICANTLY more flexible than their documentation claims. One additional thing: If you just want to use your old laptop display as an additional DVI or VGA display for your desktop computer, then you"re in a tremendous amount of luck... these days that conversion circuitry can be purchased off ebay for less than $50 (and you needn"t read on).

TFT displays are pretty much the only ones discussed here, they are pretty much the standard for many years now. Each pixel is backed by a transistor (and capacitor?) that holds its value until the next refresh. Most of these displays have very similar timing requirements, signal inputs, and by now even similar pinouts.

STN displays are the old style (grayscale and color displays from before and during the 486 era). They couldn"t hold an image for long. So, to prevent noticeable flicker as best they could by increasing refresh-rate, they often split the screen in half and wrote to the top half and the bottom half at the same time. (Thus the "D" in DSTN). Realistically, I think they use roughly the same signals as TFT, and very similar timing (besides the split-screen thing), but they"re not particularly easy to interface in any standard way. Pinouts were as varying as the devices themselves. Compatibility between laptops of different models was almost ziltch.

LVDS uses a special scheme to "recover" the bit-clocking information. There is a dedicated "clock" signal, but its purpose is specifically for the pixel-clock, which only transitions twice per 7 bits. In order to "recover" the bit-clock, the receiving end generally has a "Phase-Locked-Loop" (PLL) which in this case is basically a frequency-multiplier. The receiver looks at the pixel clock signal and multiplies its frequency by 7 in order to sample each data bit before separating them back into individual wires. These PLLs have certain operating-ranges. Sometimes they may run at a lower frequency than 7*the input (if the input frequency is too high) or sometimes they may run at a higher frequency (if the input frequency is really low). Depending on how it"s implemented, it may well sync up perfectly for a few cycles and drop out completely for a few more. It"s a stretch (haha) to think that it could sync for seven cycles, then lose sync, while yet another PLL has been tied to the actual pixel clock running as a repeater, of sorts... in which case, data would be received sporadically... nah, this is all quite a stretch. Or there are two PLLs, one for the bits and one for the pixel-clock, the bit-PLL syncs up fine, but the clock PLL runs faster than the actual clock (it"s running at its minimum frequency). Yeah, that makes some sense. Then the LCD itself is sampling (with the "repeated" (haha, again) pixel-clock) data that the bit-PLL latches at a slightly slower rate, thus doubling some pixels...

Dual-Pixel displays use one pixel-clock to display two horizontally-adjacent pixels at a time. Why? Because it"s fun to make things complicated, of course! No, it increases frame-rate, makes it possible to send twice as much data at the same bit-frequency, at the cost of twice as many wires. It"s becoming increasingly common as display resolutions increase. Generally, if you have a laptop display larger than 1024x768 it"s most likely Dual-Pixel (this is a rough estimate). DVI also has a dual-pixel mode, but that doesn"t necessarily mean the display itself is as well, and vice-versa. For instance, I was surprised to discover that an old 1024x768 VGA screen had a dual-pixel interface at the LCD. That must have been fun for the VGA-to-TFT circuit designers.

Yeah, it"s a LOT of wires, and looks very daunting, but those "odd" pixels and "even" pixels could easily be wired directly together, in which case it"s literally no different to physically interface than a single-pixel display.

The main thing is this, TFT displays, inherently, have built-in memory. It"s the whole point of the "Thin-film transistors" to be able to store each pixel"s state until the next refresh. There"s a transistor at every pixel, used to hold its state. Thus, why TFT displays look so much better than the older non-TFT displays (which many of you may have never encountered), which literally flicker on when written and fade to off until they"re written again. For the most part, those non-TFT flickery-days are long-past. (Though, you"ll find out here that flickering TFT"s can be used to our advantage).

Take that main-point just a little further: LCDs of all sorts have this inherent issue... When the liquid crystals (pixels) are driven with a constant (DC) voltage they cannot retain their visible state forever. Gradually, they will revert to their original state (either black or clear, depending on the technology used in the particular display). At one time it was made very clear that driving a liquid crystal (segment, or pixel) with DC will eventually "ruin" that pixel. I have yet to encounter this effect, but it"s been made very clear in numerous places over the years. I don"t know what method they use for driving pixels at fractional-intensities (gray) without using DC. Maybe they read the pixel"s TFT during each refresh and write a new temporary DC value based on that...? I *highly* doubt they have an *additional* frame-buffer for the sake of remembering the previous DC value of each pixel and calculating a new one. I also *highly* doubt they refresh all the pixels *separately* from (and faster than) the regular refresh rate driven by a video-card, (otherwise there wouldn"t be the effect described below?). It could well be that I completely misunderstood those warnings I read over and over again all those years ago. It could also be that nowadays DC *won"t* damage the crystal, and it could be that they"re actually using DC values to drive these pixels to fractional-values. IF that"s the case, it"s likely those DC values are stored in a (leaky) capacitor which drives the TFT which holds the pixel state. Whatever the case, we have another issue causing the main point of this paragraph...

On to the capabilities (not all-inclusive, and likely mutually-exlusive). These are my accomplishments so far on two different 1024x768 TFT displays, using an Atmel AVR microcontroller (like those used in Arduinos) running at ~16MHz:

There is *plenty* of room for improvement on this design, as it was my first TFT experiment... Other considerations: Don"t use a prescaler for the ATmega"s clock... 30MHz is way out of specs, but maybe it"d work? Use assembly instead of C for the pixel-loading routines, those are just a few, and not even considering Other Effects...

For instance, I did some heavy-testing of a display connected to my laptop, using "SwitchResX." I was bumping down its pixel clock as low as I possibly could, just to see if it was even plausible to run it off my AVR. What I found boggled my mind, as I bumped down its pixel clock, the image started to stretch horizontally... When I finally found a rate that *should* work with my AVR setup, my 1024x768 display was down to 680 (stretched) by 768. The lower horizontal resolution meant I could bump the frame-rate up with lower pixel-clocks, which was a blessing I looked forward to taking advantage of. But, ultimately, this was the display I haven"t yet been able to drive via the AVR... This particular display had a bold note stating that it would display black if an input signal did not match the timing specifications required. While the timing I"d gotten to work via SwitchResX was *way* outside the specified range, it never displayed anything but black when connected to my circuit. Ponderings as to why the image was stretched...? Maybe the pixel clock isn"t used directly... maybe the PLL that extracts the pixel clock saturates at a lower limit which is higher than the pixel clock I was supplying... Regardless, the settings which I was able to mimick with the AVR were *not* capapble of driving this display. I"m guessing it"s due to a poor LVDS implementation.

There are two common interfaces, that I"ve run into, at the LCD panel"s connector, LVDS or (low-voltage) TTL. If you"ve got a desktop LCD display or LCD TV, there"s most likely a circuit which converts from VGA, HDMI, or DVI, or any number of other input signals to either LVDS or TTL which connects to the panel itself. (Interestingly, I"ve worked on a Plasma TV, which uses LVDS... the plasma display itself was busted, but I was lucky enough to be able to rewire it to connect *directly* to an LCD panel, it was even the right resolution, though I believe some of the bits were reversed, as high-brightness colors showed up as different colors... e.g. bright red appearing as bright blue).

So, at the connector of your LCD panel, you most likely have either TTL or LVDS. I"ll start with TTL, it"s simpler to understand. The terms TTL and LVDS have nothing to do with LCDs, specifically, and mostly just define the hardware-level interface.

e.g. a simple 640x480 TFT display running at 18bits-per-pixel will have 4 timing wires, and 6 wires for each color (red, green, blue), or 22 wires. It will also have a few wires for the power supply (+3.3V and GND). If you"re lucky, the wires will be colored based on their purpose. In most cases, those signals will be at or close to 3.3V = High (a "1" bit) and 0V = Low (a "0" bit). Each wire is "sampled" at either the falling (high-to-low) or rising (low-to-high) edge of the pixel-clock. (The pixel-clock is running constantly, regardless of whether actual pixels are being transmitted, for instance an H-Sync may be indicated by the H-Sync pin being held low for 20 pixel-clocks).

The simplest way to connect this to a microcontroller (AVR, Arduino, PIC, whatever) is to just wire each of the LCD"s timing pins to a microcontroller output, tie the color pins together on another pin, and run that microcontroller at 3.3V... from there it"s all software.

Regardless, using serial ports means loading those serial buffers *constantly*. Also consider that a LOT of the data being sent to an LCD repeats numerous times. During a twenty-pixel HSync active period, that means sending the same data set down all the serial lines twenty times. During a V-Sync active it means sending the same data 1024 times (H=Off, V=On, DataEnable=Off, no color data) AND the 7-bit-encoded pixel clock, which never varies. But, most serial ports don"t repeat the same data, so that means reloading those serial buffers repeatedly, which takes a lot of processing power. Further, since most serial ports max out at the CPU frequency, that"d limit the pixel-clock to 1/7th of the CPU frequency!

At the microcontroller-side, each of the four to-be-LVDSicized signals is output on a single pin. That pin, as described before, is at TTL levels; it will ideally be 0-3.3v depending on its value (low or high). Feed that signal into two separate XORs, and configure them such that the output on one will be high whenever the other is low, and vice-versa. (e.g. tie the unused input on one XOR high, and the other unused input on the other XOR low, we"ve made a buffer and an inverter with TTL-level outputs). Now just tie these directly to the differential LVDS signals connected to the LCD. (I"ll add a note that this is based entirely on experiment, if your chips don"t match, I"d highly recommend doing some additional testing *before* connecting directly to your LCD and possibly killing it. I"ll try to explain how, later.)

The currently-working and heavily experimented-with setup consists of Texas Instruments" SN74LS86, from 1980. They"re under-speced in nearly every way. The LS series is supposed to be run from 5V, no less than 4.5V. Yes, I am running them off 3.3V. Yes, I have used them at the highest bit-frequency possible from my AVR (~128MHz, *way* faster than the "86, or even the AVR, is rated).

At the LCD-side, the signal-pairs are "terminated" with 100ohm resistors. I could go into all my vague understanding for the reasoning behind this (and it"s useful stuff, signal-bounce reduction, noise-immunity, etc.), but for these purposes I just care about how it makes this system work...

Some alternatives (not recommended unless you enjoy experimenting, and really, isn"t that why we"re here?) would be using separate buffer and inverter chips, or even forgoing the buffers altogether. It"s likely these will work fine at low speeds, but as you increase the bit-rate it"s quite likely that the signals feeding into the LCD will be shifted by as much as an entire bit, maybe more. When these delayed signals are feeding off each other (they are connected to each other through a low-value resistor, remember) who knows what kind of mess could be received. Worst-case voltages could swing for nearly a bit-period outside the maximum rating for LVDS, up to 3.3V, or even worse with some signal bounce. It"s best to keep those "propagation delays" as equal as possible, not only by using the same *types* of chips, but even those from the same date and location of manufacture. This is why I used XORs instead of separate buffers and inverters. (Yes, most manufacturers have different locations around the world, and their processes may be slightly different, may even vary from day-to-day... at least, this is what I"ve been told. At least keep it in mind when using whatever chips you have lying around.) All that said, my first functioning experiment at full speed used four separate one-gang (single-gate) AHC chips (desoldered); one each of an OR and an XOR for each channel (clock and blue/timing).

SainSmart 3.2" TFT LCD Display is a LCD touch screen module. It has 40pins interface and SD card and Flash reader design. It is a powerful and mutilfunctional module for your project.The Screen include a controller SSD1289, it"s a support 8/16bit data interface , easy to drive by many MCU like STM32 ,AVR and 8051. It is designed with a touch controller in it . The touch IC is ADS7843 , and touch interface is included in the 40 pins breakout. It is the version of product only with touch screen and touch controller.

3.2"" TFT LCD module with 40 IO, it is more than a LCD module and colleagues also includes an SD card slot, whether with touch function. (Here we are with touch screen function module)