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#121 Cuno

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 07:29 PM

http://nwazet.com/product/module

Fabien,

very interesting product!

If I understand correctly, your touch display has its own microcontroller, between the display and the Netduino Go. Is the "SPI up to 40 MHz" between display and your microcontroller?

What exactly is the higher-level protocol on top of go!bus, between Netduino Go and your display module? Are the drawing primitives related to common .NET abstractions?

Could your display be used from a Gadgeteer mainboard as well, let's say through an SUX socket?

Thanks and looking forward to seeing the display in natura!

Cuno

#122 Bertrand Le Roy

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 09:15 PM

What exactly is the higher-level protocol on top of go!bus, between Netduino Go and your display module? Are the drawing primitives related to common .NET abstractions?


Rendering commands from your .NET code on the Go are serialized and sent over the wire, then deserialized by the screen's controller and executed there. The screen itself is running those commands in native code. The API is a canvas-like vector graphics API. It will evolve in the future but already has some interesting features. You'll see a lot of activity from us just around the screen. We have surprises in stock. :)

#123 Fabien Royer

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 10:07 PM

Hi Cuno,

I'm going to expand on what Bertrand wrote a bit and take your questions one by one :)

If I understand correctly, your touch display has its own microcontroller, between the display and the Netduino Go. Is the "SPI up to 40 MHz" between display and your microcontroller?



That's correct: the display has its own STM32F2, servicing commands from the application running on the GO! mainboard received / sent over SPI. In turn, the display module drives the actual LCD screen and handles the interactions with the touchscreen.

What exactly is the higher-level protocol on top of go!bus, between Netduino Go and your display module? Are the drawing primitives related to common .NET abstractions?



I wrote a generic lightweight message serialization / deserialization system for passing messages / objects (in network byte order) between a C# app and the C code (and vice-versa) interpreting the commands. The buffer containing the serialized messages is used by SPI directly.


Could your display be used from a Gadgeteer mainboard as well, let's say through an SUX socket?



Yes, it should work just fine.

Thanks and looking forward to seeing the display in natura!


Thanks,

Cheers,
-Fabien.

#124 Terry Massey

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 10:13 PM

From the specs page:

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all 8 sockets: go!bus modules
up to 2 sockets: Gadgeteer S-U-X
"

So it looks like there is some gadgeteer compatibility, right?


Any one else think maybe the S-U-X was on purpose???
Thanks,
Terry Massey

#125 Cuno

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 10:36 PM

Hi Cuno,

I'm going to expand on what Bertrand wrote a bit and take your questions one by one :)

...

Thanks! More and more interesting...

#126 Chris Walker

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 01:26 AM

Hi Terry,

Any one else think maybe the S-U-X was on purpose???

It's an unfortunate consequence of an otherwise technical naming scheme. This was the Gadgeteer socket type which fit go!bus pin requirements. Hopefully those who have Gadgeteer modules find the compatibility mode useful.

Chris

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Posted 06 April 2012 - 09:12 PM

Darn the bad luck, I got the only UPS driver in the state of Florida that has never gotten a speeding ticket. It is after 5:00 pm and still no Netduino Go!.

At least at this speed it should get here safe. Poor thing has been in the truck since 6:28 am this morning.

In-Patiently waiting,
Chuck




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