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ComfileHMI + MCU Solution
Touch Screen GUIs (Graphic user interfaces) are becoming more ubiquitous than ever.
For mass production, MCUs (micrcontrollers) must be used to keep costs down, but it can take a lot of effort to interface an MCU with a graphical LCD.
Displaying text requires first creating fonts. TrueType fonts can be used, but they require additional effort and hardware resources, so typically bitmap fonts are used.
To make an attractive user interface also requires support for images (e.g
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Oct 10th 2019
Supervisory Remote Control Feature Added to the ComfileHMI
We are pleased to announce that the ComfileHMI now has a supervisory remote control feature.As of v2.72, users can now view and control one or more ComfileHMI panel PCs remotely from a supervisory workstation PC. The feature supports a practically unlimited number of viewers with options for view only and UI interaction. The feature is available to all ComfileHMI panel PC models with Ethernet.For more information, please see the ComfileHMI documentation.
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May 30th 2019
Windows 10 Creators Update & Windows Mobile Device Center
Our
CUWIN Windows CE-based products and our ComfileHMI products rely on Windows Mobile Device Center for connectivity to a PC.
We have discovered that the latest update of Windows 10, dubbed the "Creators Update", can cause connectivity to these devices to no longer work. One workaround we've found to remedy this problem is described below:
1. Download
this .bat file.
2. Right-click the .bat file and select "Run as administrator".
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Oct 20th 2017
Announcing the ComfilePi - Industrial Raspberry Pi Panel PC
COMFILE Technology is pleased to announce the release of the ComfilePi: An industrial Raspberry Pi-based panel PC.Leveraging the Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module Lite, the COMFILE Pi inherits a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 1.2 GHz SOC, Broacom VideoCore IV GPU, and 1GB of RAM while exposing the following I/O features:* 24-bit color LCD with pressure senstive resistive-film touchscreen* 22 ESD Protected GPIO (40-pin socket header compatible similar to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B)* 3 USB 2.0 host po
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May 29th 2017
CUWIN CWV2 Hardware Upgrades
The
CUWIN CWV Windows CE panel PC has been given a hardware upgrade and named CWV2.
CWV
CWV2
Models Affected
Storage
256MB NAND Flash
4GM eMMC
All Models
RTC
MCU Embedded RTC
Highly Accurate DS3231 RTC
All Models
LCD Brightness
300cd/m
2
400cd/m
2
070BR & 070WR
The CWV2 remains functionall
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May 29th 2017