Showing posts with label UDOO NEO i.mx6sx cortex m4 touch screen s6d1125. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UDOO NEO i.mx6sx cortex m4 touch screen s6d1125. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 April 2017

i.MX6SX - Using the cortex M4 on a UDOO NEO to drive a $4 Touch Screen

The challenge here was to see if a ultra cheap touch screen could be made to work with the cortex M4 on the UDOO NEO. The video (below) demonstrates its possible, the M4 is controlling the display and a simple UI allows the toggling of the green LED.


I managed to pick up a 2.0" touch screen for around $4, although the screen is on the slightly small side, it still manages to support a resolution of 320x240. Normally these type of screens are sold into a secondary market with the hope that they can be interfaced to an Arduino, their primary use seems to a PDA or home communication device given the imprinted icons (which aren't removable).


The display supports a 8 bit parallel LCD interface (using the S6D1125) along with a 4 wire resistive touch. The downside with using such a display is that it requires a large number of pins, in our case 12 GPIO pins and 2 analogue pins (for resistive touch).

The code to drive the display was built using the i.mx6sx FreeRTOS sdk.