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The GOLDELOX processor is a custom embedded graphics controller designed to interface with many popular OLED and LCD display panels. Powerful graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features are built right inside the chip. It offers a simple plug-n-play interface to many 8bit 80-Series colour LCD and OLED displays.
The chip is designed to work with minimal design effort and all of the data and control signals are provided by the chip to interface directly to the display. Simply choose your display and interface it to the GOLDELOX on your application board. This offers enormous advantage to the designer in development time and cost saving and takes away all of the burden of low level design.
The GOLDELOX belongs to a family of processors powered by a highly optimised soft core virtual engine, E.V.E. (Extensible Virtual Engine). EVE is a proprietary, high performance virtual processor with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimised to execute compiled 4DGL programs. 4DGL (4D Graphics Language) was specifically developed from ground up for the EVE engine core. It is a high level language which is easy to learn and simple to understand yet powerful enough to tackle many embedded graphics applications.
The device offers modest but comprehensive I/O features and can interface to SPI, serial, analogue, digital, buttons, joystick and Dallas 1-wire devices. Provision is also made for creating complex sound effects for audible user feedback with an extended RTTTL tone generator.
A basic system font is included, and unlimited customisable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing can be created using the Workshop 4 IDE. The chip-resident display driver libraries implement and share the same high-level functional interface. This allows your GUI application to be portable to different display controller types.
The 4D Workshop4 IDE is FREE and there is no licensing requirement.
In short, the GOLDELOX offers one of the most flexible embedded graphics solutions available.
- Low-cost OLED, LCD and TFT display graphics user interface solution.
- Ideal as a standalone embedded graphics processor or interface to any host controller as a graphics co-processor.
- Connect to any colour display that supports an 80-Series 8 bit wide CPU interface. All data and control signals are provided.
- Built in high performance virtual processor engine (EVE) with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimised for 4DGL, the high level 4D Graphics Language.
- 10K bytes of flash memory for user code storage and 510 bytes (255 x 16bit vars) of RAM for user variables.
- 2 x GPIO ports supports:
- Digital I/O
- A/D converter with 8/10 bit resolution
- Complex sound generation
- Dedicated RTTTL tune engine
- Multi-Switch Joystick
- Dallas 1-Wire
- 1 x 32bit free running system timer with 1msec resolution.
- 4 x 16bit user timers with 1msec resolution
- Asynchronous hardware Serial port with auto-baud feature (300 to 256K baud).
- Hardware SPI port interface for SD memory cards or Serial Flash memory chips for storing of icons, images, animations, etc.
- Comprehensive set of built in high level 4DGL graphics functions and algorithms that can draw lines, circles, text, and much more.
- Display full colour images, animations, icons and video clips.
- 8x8 built-in system font and support for unlimited user customisable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing with the aid of a freely provided Font-Tool.
- Single 3.3 Volt Supply @12mA typical.
- Available in a tiny 6mm x 6mm 28pin QFN.
- General purposes embedded graphics.
- Elevator control systems.
- Point of sale terminals.
- Electronic gauges and metres.
- Test and measurement and general purpose instrumentation.
- Industrial control and Robotics.
- Automotive system displays.
- GPS navigation systems.
- Medical applications.
- Home appliances.
- Smart Home Automation.
- Security and Access control systems.
- Gaming equipment.
Workshop4 is a comprehensive software IDE for Microsoft Windows that provides an integrated software development platform for all of the 4D family of processors and modules. The IDE combines the Editor, Compiler, Linker and Downloader to develop complete 4DGL application code. All user application code is developed within the Workshop4 IDE.
user to write 4DGL code in its
natural form to program the
display module.
that doesn’t require any 4DGL
coding at all, it is all done
automatically for you. Simply
lay the display out with the
objects you want (similar to
ViSi), set the events to drive
them and the code is written
for you automatically. ViSi
-Genie provides the latest
rapid development
experience from
4D Systems.
experience that enables
drag-and-drop type placement
of objects to assist with 4DGL
code generation and allows
the user to visualise how the
display will look while being
developed.
provided to transform the
display module into a slave
serial display module,
allowing the user to control
the display from any host
microcontroller or device
with a serial port.
The GOLDELOX processor on the Display module can be re-programmed with the latest PmmC/Firmware for updates and future proofing via the Workshop 4 IDE Software. This process requires the use of the 4D Programming cable
The GOLDELOX Processor includes the following:
- GOLDELOX Processor
