4D Systems (one of OLED-Info's sponsors) announced a new graphics chip, the Picaso-GFX2. The chip is designed to work with all popular OLED and LCD panels in the market. 4DS says the new chip sports powerful graphic, text, image, animation and sound generation capabilities. It can be used stand-alone as an embedded graphics processor or as a co-processor to host a micro-controller through its hardware serial interface. 4D says it's plug and play and will work with most 16-bit 80 series color LCD and OLED displays.
The Picaso-GFX2 has 15 kilobytes of flash memory, 14 kilobytes of SRAM, 13 digital I/O pins, a 12C interface, FAT16 file services, two hardware serial ports with Auto-Baud built in, SPI interface support of SDHC/DS memory cards, 4-wire resistive touch panel and a 16-bit PWM audio output. 4D reckons the new chip works a treat with bundled free software tools like 4DGL Workshop3 IDE and Graphics Composer, which apparently cuts out low level design, instead being able to focus on the user interface and all high level design criteria.
