LT7683/LT7381 controller board for 40Pin/50Pin TFT LCD

Introducing the latest LT7683/LT7381 controller board, a best fit for 40Pin/50Pin TFT LCD panels (RGB interface).

   

LT7683

LT7683 is a powerful chip that can control up to 1024x768 TFT displays. It has 128Mb of RAM that can buffer the display. It also has a geometric drawing engine that provides command-type graphic operations such as drawing points, lines, curves, ellipses, triangles, rectangles etc. With an embedded hardware graphics acceleration engine (BTE), LT7683 enables users to implement screen rotation, flipping, mirroring, PIP, graphics blending and more. You may refer to the datasheet and application note for more details.

   

MCU may connect to this controller board through either 4-wire SPI or 8 bits parallel (8080/6800) interface (See Table 1-1 for the board features summary). The controller board provides RTP/CTP interfaces. Other than the CTP pins, the RTP pins are also made available so that users may connect to other touch controllers. In addition, LT7683 controller board is designed to fit in with the typical 40pins/50pins TFT displays.

In addition, there is an 128Mb SPI Flash on the board. Users may store their images, fonts, and animations in the SPI Flash, and then utilize a simple DMA command of LT7683 to access the Flash and retrieve those data.

A customized MCU board is also available as a set with the LT7683 controller board. The MCU board has a typical STM32F103 on it. Users can combine these two boards to work on their own projects in no time.

To get you started, we have prepared a library with various examples. Download them from LEVETOP website and install as described in Chapter 2. Connect a 40 or 50pins TFT to the FPC port and wire up the interface (SPI/Parallel) to your MCU. You may then try out those provided examples.

LT7381

LT7381 shares all the functionalities of LT7683, except that it does not support external Flash, and its RAM size is 32Mb.

For more detail about what LT7683/LT7381 can do, please check the datasheet and application note.

         LT768x Datasheet: https://www.levetop.cn/data/LT768x_DS_V42_ENG.pdf

         LT768x Application Note: https://www.levetop.cn/data/LT768x_AP-Note_V12_ENG.pdf

Table 1-1: Board Features

No	Feature	Description
1	MCU Interface	4-wire SPI / 8bits Parelle (8080/6800)
2	LCD Interface	Typical 40pins / 50pins
3	Resolution	Max. 1024 x 768
4	Color depth	Max. 24bits / 16.7M colors
5	IC embedded display RAM	128Mb / 32 Mb
6	Touch Panel Interface	RTP / CTP (I2C)
7	External SPI Flash	128Mb Nor Flash on board

Figure 1: LT7683/LT7381 Controller Board for 40Pin LCD

(Dimension: 60mm x 56mm x 4.6mm (2.36” x 2.2” x 0.18”))

Figure 2: LT7683/LT7381 Controller Board for 50Pin LCD

          (Dimension: 70mm x 60mm x 4.6mm (2.76” x 2.36” x 0.18”))