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Kentec 3.5" LCD With Touch BoosterPack for Stellaris

This 3.5" Color LCD BoosterPack with Touch for Stellaris from Kentec features a large 3.5" 320 x 240 pixels screen with 256K colours and touch. 

The BoosterPack is very easy to install on the LaunchPad Stellaris. 

The major benefit is speed, as the screen uses an 8-bit parallel connection to the Stellaris. Five additional pins are required for the screen.


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There's no built-in controller for the touch: the Stellaris has to manage the touch resistor directly, through four pins.

The BoosterPack is carefully manufactured and very clean. At less than USD35, this screen provides great value.

The Kentec page provides all the documentation for the screen.

There's a new version of the screen, the Kentec 3.5" LCD SPI with Touch BoosterPack, based on the SPI port.
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Pins Map

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Performance

Thanks to its 8-bit parallel connection, writing to and reading from the screen are really fast, up to 10 times faster than a SPI-based screens!

Copying and pasting a 64x64 area needs 49 ms only, instead of the 438 ms required by the SPI-connected HY28A.

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Software

Texas Instruments has a full chapter on its great Stellaris LaunchPad Workshop for the Kentec 3.5" BoosterPack. 
The Getting Started with the Stellaris EK-LM4F120XL LaunchPad Workshop is a free, in-depth, hands-on introduction into Stellaris LM4F basics.

Chapter 10 explains how to use the screen and describes the Graphics Library, a rich library with many features for the Code Composer Studio IDE.
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For Energia, I've adapted the screen-specific functions to fit into the LCD_screen Library Suite.

This LCD_screen library includes high level graphics and GUI elements.
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Pros

  • Large 3.5" screen with great colours
  • Really fast screen
  • Official library for Code Composer Studio
  • LCD_screen Library Suite for Energia

Cons

  • No built-in touch controller

Wrap-Up

  • Great value for the LaunchPad Stellaris 
  • Plug-and-play BoosterPack

Links

  • Kentec 3.5" Color LCD BoosterPack with Touch for Stellaris
  • Dedicated thread at Stellarisiti forum
  • Getting Started with the Stellaris EK-LM4F120XL LaunchPad Workshop
  • Code Composer Studio
  • New LCD_screen Library Suite for Energia

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