ACT I³ - Industrial Intelligent Interface

This is what we set out to achieve: to create a unified, common interface for TFTs between 3.5” and 7.0”.

It was immediately clear to us that such a concept would provide the ideal basis for directly addressing the typical challenges that arise during the design-in process.

Whilst the idea is not entirely new, we have created a TFT display concept combining a unique set of useful features for you:

* *** HIGH PERFORMANCE BACKLIGHT

*** EMC OPTIMIZED

*** CONVENIENT CONTROL

*** COMMERCIALLY SMART*

A brightness of 1,000 nits combined with a lifetime of at least 50,000 hours. The backlight driver is integrated and works in a wide operating range from 5-12V. The brightness can be controlled via a PWM-Pin. To further increase the lifetime expectancy beyond 50,000 hours, you can simply reduce the basic brightness below the typical 1,000 nits.

A low-impedance ground reference is not only the fundamental basis of a reliable signal integrity, but also greatly influences the overall EMC-performance. Most displays only provide a few ground lines, thus resulting in a floating ground reference due to the high-speed clock signals. Such a display not only tends to massively radiate electromagnetic emissions, but is also significantly vulnerable to external interference, like motor controll applications or switch mode power supplies (SMPS). Our unique solution comes with a standard 50-pin interface that provides several ultra-low impedance ground lines that ensure a reliable and tightly coupled connection between the display and the target application - even at high speed data throughput. This excellent EMC-performance has been optimized to a maximum by an additional metal plate stiffener in combination with a highly conductive thin layer silver coating.

The thin-film-transistors of the active matrix in a TFT LCD necessarily require a number of “inconvenient” voltages. All ACT I³ displays generate these voltages entirely on the FPC. To support you during the design-in process, we offer a comprehensive hardware and software development environment. It’s based on the powerful SMT32F469 from STMicroelectronics.

This enables you to get the display up and running in only a few minutes.

The long-term availability of a display is one of the most difficult and at the same time most important factors when selecting a display.

All ACT I³ displays have been explicitly designed to provide an outstanding long term avaibility of ≥ 10 years.

Flexibility based on an industrial standard Flexibility standard – that was our idea – a truly modular system. All displays are optionally available with touch (resistive or capacitive), optically or air-gap bonded, customized cover lenses and many other modifications are possible. If required, even relatively small quantities are available.

WITH OUR INNOVATIVE CONCEPT WE CREATED A NEW STANDARD – A CENTERED FPC AND COMMON INTERFACE:

*OUR ACT I³ PURE, PRO & PRO X SERIES*

In addition to the well established PURE series, we have continued to develop and improve these displays and introduced the new PRO series. How does it differ from the PURE series? First and foremost, we have upgraded to newest TFT cells which use state of the art technology to further increase both contrast ratio and viewing angles in all directions.

The PRO series therefore offers significantly improved optical performance. While developing this series, full compatibility between both series was of paramount important to us. Anyone using a PURE series display, can easily upgrade to a PRO series display without any hard- or software changes.

Our new *PRO X-Series* convinces with a modern design, very wide working temperature range and a 2mm thick cover lens.