Avnet
Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet,
Inc. (NYSE: AVT)
today announced the release of a new touchscreen Human Machine Interface
(HMI) reference design from Xylon, a leading provider of advanced FPGA
application solutions, IP cores and design services for its MicroZed™
evaluation kit. The MicroZed is based on the Xilinx® Zynq™-7000 All
Programmable SoC.
The reference design is available for free and showcases the MicroZed
working as a Linux-based System-on-Module (SOM) with a graphics
touchscreen HMI that is connected to an I/O Carrier Card and the 7-inch
Zed Touch Display Kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing. The MicroZed
uses ilixi user interface toolkit to run several DirectFB and Qt
graphics applications on the attached LCD display and to control them by
the capacitive touchscreen.
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“The software driver for Linux, as well as the evaluation version of
Xylon’s display controller core, both included in this reference design,
will help engineers save significant time in the conception of their
products,” said Jim Beneke, vice president of global technical marketing
for Avnet Electronics Marketing. “Through this reference design, our
experts can help engineers expedite the creation of their own
applications – at the lowest possible cost.”
“We are thrilled by the success of our logicBRICKS reference designs for
the ZedBoard and their acceptance by the respectable design community
spearheaded by Avnet Electronics Marketing,” said Davor Kovacec, CEO and
founder of Xylon. “Extending our support to the MicroZed is a logical
step forward, as we especially admire its SOM form factor, which helps
engineers build fully customized electronics assemblies that leverage
the ultimate Zynq-7000 SoC flexibility.”
System designers can use the demonstrated HMI as a basis for their next
Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable design and integrate it with their
application specific parts. The LCD display is controlled by Xylon’s
logiCVC-ML advanced display controller logicBRICKS IP core, which is
compatible with the Xilinx Vivado® IP Integrator (IPI) design and
verification environment. The logiCVC-ML IP core supports multiple
graphics layers, hardware accelerated layers blending, different pixel
formats and video output formats, and comes with software drivers that
assure a smooth integration with the Linux operating system.
Design deliverables include: evaluation logiCVC-ML Compact Multilayer
Video Controller IP core, hardware design files prepared for Xilinx
Vivado 2013.2 design suite, complete Linux OS image, ilixi User
Interface (UI) toolkit and application framework for DirectFB, Xylon
logicBRICKS software drivers for Linux OS, and DirectFB and Qt demo
applications.
Visit Xylon
and download the free Touchscreen HMI reference design.
Visit Xylon’s
video gallery to see the demonstration video.
Besides the display controller IP core used in this demo design, Xylon
offers 2D and 3D graphics accelerator IP cores that improve graphics
performance and off-load Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC
Processing System. To learn more about logicBRICKS graphics
accelerators, please check out the logiREF-ZGPU-ZED
graphics engine reference design for the ZedBoard™ Evaluation Kit
from Avnet Electronics Marketing.
To learn more about Xylon’s logicBRICKS software support for non-Linux
operating systems, please
click here.
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About Xylon
Xylon is an electronic company focused on Field Programmable Gate Array
(FPGA) design development. It was established in 1995 and is based in
Zagreb, Croatia. Xylon offers a comprehensive IP cores library named
logicBRICKS, and it is optimized for Xilinx FPGA architectures. Xylon’s
expertise in the fields of embedded graphics, video, image processing
and networking is confirmed by a large number of successful FPGA
designs, which are produced by our partners and distributed worldwide.
All of Xylon’s IP cores are exhaustively tested to ensure that they can
be easily implemented and integrated in the customers’ designs. Xylon is
a Premier Member of the Xilinx Alliance Program. More information can be
found at www.logicbricks.com,
the official Xylon web site.
About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based
Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers
(EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more
than 80 countries, distributing electronic components and embedded
systems from leading manufacturers and providing associated
design-chain, supply-chain and value-added integration services. The
group's website is located at www.em.avnet.com.
About Avnet, Inc.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT),
a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic
components, Memory products and embedded technology serving customers
globally. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the
world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by
providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the
fiscal year ended June 29, 2013, Avnet generated revenue of $25.5
billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
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