4.3” WQVGA Touch/Graphic Module
Featuring the Renesas RX621 MCU with LCD Direct Drive
Adding a graphic/touch interface to
your product has never been faster
than with Serious Integrated Mod-
ules. Simply connect power and a
communications port from your ex-
isting system to the SIM205 and
your hardware design is complete.
The SIM205 is an off-the-shelf, pro-
duction-worthy and prototype-friend-
ly 4.3” WQVGA TFT graphic/touch
module powered by the Renesas
RX600 MCU and supported by exten-
sive out-of-the-box software.
SIM205 Hardware Features
1.
4.3” Wide QVGA 16-bit
color 480×272 TFT Touch
Display with 4-wire Resistive
Touch
100MHz 32-bit Rene-
sas RX621 with 512KB Flash,
96KB RAM and FPU
8MB SDRAM wired for Direct
Drive of LCD panel
7.
8.
USB device port (can power
whole module!)
Battery Backed Real Time
Clock/Calendar with 1Kbit
EEPROM and 64 bytes param-
eter SRAM
Standard 14-pin debug port
for Renesas E1 and compat-
ible debuggers
2.
9.
3.
4.
SIM205 Product Brief
5.
8MB (64Mbit) Serial FLASH
10.
D-to-A driven 750mW Class D
for program, image, and data
Audio Amplifier with speaker
storage
11.
USB Embedded Host Port Up
Baseboard connector: SPI, I2C,
to 150mA supply
CAN, USB, UART, ADC,
& GPIO
12.
System Temperature Sensor
Advanced Dual Supply Dy-
namic Power Path Manage-
ment with charger for (op-
tional) Lithium Ion Polymer
battery
March 2012 v1.9
6.
SIM205 Software and Support
Writing a full GUI application can be a daunting
task. Even before you write that first line of GUI
code you can waste months porting an OS and
developing the board support package, basic
support utilities, and graphics libraries. Serious
delivers out-of-the-box pre-ported software
that that gets you past these initial barriers in
minutes, not months – all with no-cost licenses!
makes Direct Drive nearly transparent to the applica-
tion, allowing you to write a GUI application that can
more easily port to other SIMs without Direct Drive.
Renesas Graphics API (GAPI)
The Renesas Graphics API, in source code with
documentation, is part of the demo application.
is a prototypers enclosure
designed for the SIM205,
and includes a USB-re-
chargeable Lithium Ion
battery.
New to the RX600
family?
Purchase the SIM205 bundled with the
cost effective Segger JLink Lite RX JTAG Debug-
ger/Programmer. Use the JLink Lite RX for the
programming and debugging programs on the
SIM205 as well as any future RX600-based project.
Segger JLink Lite RX
The
Serious
Human Interface Platform™ (SHIP)
No-Cost Development Tools
Software provided with the SIM205 is targeted for
the free
Renesas High Performance Embedded Work-
bench (HEW)
along with the free
KPIT GNU
toolsuite.
Develop complete applications on SIM205 with no
software development tool costs! For more infor-
mation on the Renesas RX621 MCU and tools, visit
www.rxmcu.com.
Serious
is committed to support-
ing the new Eclipse-based Renesas e2 Studio as it
evolves through the beta development phase in 2012.
Looking for a comprehensive WYSIWYG rapid-GUI
development environment? A demo of the soon-to-
be-released Serious Human Interface Platform™ (SHIP)
comes preloaded on the SIM205. Contact Serious for
more information on SHIP and how GUIs can be devel-
oped in
hours.
Buying SIM205
SHIP Core Elements
Out-of-the-Box RTOSs & BSP
Pre-ported Pre-Licensed RTOSs
Pick the right RTOS for the job: SIM205 comes
with pre-ported single commercial full-production
licenses of both the
Micrium μC/OS-III
and
Seg-
ger embOS
professional-grade kernels as well
as the standard open-source
FreeRTOS
kernel.
Source-code for core elements from SHIP (“SHIP
Core”) are included with the SIM205, including mal-
loc/free replacements that allow multiple heaps and
easier debugging, a buffer allocation system (typically
for communications ISRs and messages), as well as an
OS Abstraction layer that allows projects to be writ-
ten identically for all supported RTOSs without #ifdefs!
Beyond these basic utilities, SHIP Core also includes ba-
sic CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART driver frameworks that you
can build upon for your applications’ specific needs.
SIM205 is available
direct
from
Serious
in the US, and
worldwide
from
Digi-Key.
SIM205 Partners
Out of the Box Drivers
Serious
Support and Services
The SIM205’s no-cost software includes many pre-port-
ed cross-OS drivers including SPI, I2C, UART, RTCC, CAN,
Graphics, Touch, and Timer drivers with full source code.
Direct Drive Support
Serious
offers comprehensive software, hard-
ware and GUI customization and development
services.
Contact
Serious
for information.
The
mySerious.com
site offers community and
Serious
ap-
plications support for registered users of the SIM205.
Serious’
Direct Drive subsystem goes beyond the Rene-
sas driver, adding on-the-fly portrait and landscape
mode selection, dynamic frame rate management,
and an enhanced direct drive “monitor” task.
Serious
SIM205 Accessories
SBX200 Prototyping Enclosure
Need a prototyping box? Something to keep it safe
while your marketing team is handling it? The
SBX200
seriousintegrated.com/sim205