Re: [Gumstix-users] Rapid Development of Display Application

[Rob A. <rob...@gm...>]

Hi Don,

Do you have a guestimate on when the Overo motherboards with On-board
Bluetooth(R) wireless communication and or On-board 802.11g wireless
communication will be avaliable?

Kind regards
Rob

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Don Anderson <do...@gu...> wrote:

> Hi Gary
>
> We have posted some information about our plans for our Overo product line
> in gumstix.net:
>
>
> http://www.gumstix.net/Hardware/view/Hardware/Product-Roadmap-Overo/112.html
>
> Although we have not announced release dates for these products, you can
> look for the first of the LCD-capable expansion boards to be released this
> winter 2009. This would be second Overo expansion board, in addition to the
> Summit board that we released last Fall.
>
>
> Don
> @ Gumstix
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:13 AM, <Gar...@jo...> wrote:
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>> Keeping along with this thread, what is the roadmap and time frame for the
>> Overo system to get an LCD display interface?
>>
>> Also just diving into this are the drivers available for the LCD Display
>> if
>> an LCD display where to be "prototyped" onto the
>> Summit board?
>>
>> Gary Ellerbusch
>> Senior Electrical Design Engineer
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>> digipepp wrote:
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>> > We have a need to rapidly produce a prototype that requires an LCD
>> display
>> > and custom GUI for a grad class.  The display needs to be small, not
>> > desktop size, much like the Samsung LCD provided on the Gumstix web
>> site.
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>> >
>> > We are interested in the Overo as it sounds like the OpenEmbedded is
>> > pre-configured to launch Enlightenment and all of the necessary display
>> > drivers.  However, I do not believe it can directly drive said Samsung
>> > display.  In that case, can you recommend any small DVI displays,
>> roughly
>> > 4" to 6" diagonal?  Or can you recommend any modifications to the Overo
>> > expansion board that might allow use to direct drive the display?
>> >
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>> You are correct that the current Overo Earth with Summit board is not
>> configured to directly drive an LCD display.  I suppose you could find a 4
>> to 6 inch LCD display with HDMI input (or use a HDMI to VGA converter:
>> http://www.ambery.com/hddvitovgafo.html is one possiblity).
>>
>> You can also take a look at the Summit expansion board schematics (
>> http://pubs.gumstix.org/boards/SUMMIT/PCB30001-R2185/) to see how the
>> video
>> is currently setup - the Overo Earth board does bring the raw LCD signals
>> out through J1 on the board so that would be a "possiblity" but you will
>> still need to provide the power and interfacing circuitry (and I doubt it
>> would be a "fast fix" to your needs).
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> gm...
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