Designed by Insforia Technologies, Display Studio helps to customize your own Information Displays.
Some of it’s salient features are as follows:
1. Choice of Multiplexed Based systems or Shift-Register;
2. Choice of loading images (in monochrome format), various texts including regional languages.
3. Choice of effects like Roll, Freeze, Flash, and Top-Bottom
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DisplayStudio
1. Display Studio
- A demonstration
Designed and Developed by:
Insforia Technolgies Pvt Ltd
2. An Introduction
Display Studio helps you customize your own Information Displays.
Some of it’s salient features are as follows:
- Choice of Multiplexed Based systems or Shift-Register
- Choice of loading images (in monochrome format), various
texts including regional languages.
- Choice of effects like Roll, Freeze, Flash, Top-Bottom, etc
LET’S WALK YOU THROUGH THE INTERFACE ITSELF….
3. The Front-End interface currently
configured for 16 rows.
Note : You can select between 8
and 16 rows
4. Here we’ve loaded the
Text Box and punched
in a message ‘ Display
Studio Demo’
Step 1:
Create Messages – You can
directly use the Grid panel, Load
the Text Box, or even an image
here.
5. Step1 Contd:
Choose amongst various
fonts that are already pre-
loaded on your machine,
including regional
languages
6. Step 2:
Create as many messages as
required. This will later on used for
creating the final display file.
Here, we show an example of an
image loaded on the Grid Panel.
7. Various options like Cut, Copy,
Paste, Inverse, Resize is
possible within the Display
Studio.
Text and Images can be loaded together
also. It is to be noted here, that as
display studio provides an option of only
8 or 16 rows, it is advisable to limit the
text and images within this.
8. Once done, we need to now save the message
files. Essentially, what this does is, stores the
binary image of the file that is loaded on the
Grid Panel.
Before creating the final file, all the messages
to be used should be created here and saved
accordingly.
9. Microcontroller Selection
There are two types of Displays that we
can use Display Studio for:
Shift-Register : Max Columns that can be
selected is 256 with this option
Multiplex : Max No of Columns that can
be selected is 96.
Note that columns can only be selected in
multiples of 8.
Once all the messages
are saved, we are now
ready to create the hex
file by sequencing our
messages.
10. After selecting the display features, load
the message files that were created before.
It is here we decide on the various effects
after a particular message file is loaded.
11. After the message is loaded, we can
choose amongst various in-built effects
within the display studio. So let’s say we
want to Roll m1.bin file; we select ‘Rolling’
and choose its Speed accordingly.
12. Similarly, we can load all the messages created earlier and
assign effects to them. Once done you can see the preview
of the files on the panel.
The final step is to create the IC (Hex/Bin) file.
13. Points to ponder:
Once the Hex file is created, the messages cannot be changed. That is,
the final file does not support PS/2 or PC interface. That said, in order to
change the messages, one has to burn the microcontroller again.
The Multiplex mode supports only 96 columns while the shift-register
mode can be programmed upto 256 columns.
For various types of Display Boards (like LED based, Dot-Matrix based),
only the driver card changes and not the software. It is upto the end-user
to design the driver card based on the display selected.
We will provide the schematics of both shift-register and multiplex display
units along with software package. We also support with initial prototyping
of the display units along with various PCB designs, if required.
14. We’ve tried our best to explain our
software package ‘ DISPLAY STUDIO’
to you.
In case of any other query please mail
us at:
contact@insforia.com
and we’ll be glad to assist you!