Build your project on modular touch-screen solutions

TFT touch panels combined with ARM-based system-on-modules offer rapid project completion

Projects including a bespoke touch-screen interface are easily completed when all of the required elements are already proven to work together.

A modular ARM-based (or x86) embedded system using the latest processors, running Yocto Linux, or other OS including Windows or QNX, with proven support for GUI-programming methodologies such as Qt, LVGL or StoryBoard should be your starting point, along with pin-compatible TFT screens with integral touch-panels. Everything should easily work together, but the devil is in the detail, and so choosing a partner like Direct Insight with 20-years’ experience of helping touch-screen-based projects along gives you the best chance of a smooth road ahead.

We strive to support the broadest possible range of touch screens and GUI technologies. We can recommend and supply a display, but also support almost any 3rd party TFT, small or large, and usually featuring capacitive touch, directly connected via parallel RGB or using LVDS, HDMI, MIPI-DSI or DisplayPort.

Touch screen based user interfaces are foremost in the solutions we provide in industrial, medical, transportation and enterprise applications. A tiny, production ready ARM Cortex-A based module is often the ideal engine for this type of project, and we offer ready-to-use sets of module + baseboard + touch screen which could be the starting-point, or even the final solution for your custom project.

QSBASE4 with QSXP i.MX8M Plus module, Raspberry Pi touchscreen and NXP AI demo

If you are thinking of creating a system with a touch-screen, but don’t know where to start, you can access our expertise in a variety of ways. Simply contact us (See below) and give us a picture of the interface an touch scree requirements which will define your solution.For low to medium volume projects, a modular, production-ready solution can get you to market in a matter of weeks.

We ensure that our extensive range of modules can work with the touch screen that best suits your application. Once the type of display interface is defined (usually parallel RGB or LVDS, but others are supported, such as MIPI-DSI), an appropriate This starts with the development system,  – which can be supplied with a range of capacitive touch screens with a unified interface, working out of the box. We can also soon help you to interface almost any screen type.

In production, while some customer projects go on to use the same displays as supplied with the development system, many choose displays from other vendors, and our goal is to make it easy to use the display of your choice. The board support packages for Linux, QNX and Windows IoT which are provided for the various modules  all support a wide range of resistive and capacitive TFT panels from partners – and are also easily configurable to support other manufacturers’ displays.

The table below shows some popular module + development kit + display combinations, but many more are possible!